Is it time to start resisting Gigabit Ethernet?

Approximately $10 billion of IT budgets will be wasted on unnecessary Gigabit Ethernet connections in the next two years, Gartner analyst Mark Fabbi said recently. Instead, companies should buy better management and quality-of-service tools, he believes. The logic is that there's no point in conducting a network upgrade now since most applications don't really need the extra bandwidth, and by the time they do, networking technologies will either be faster or cheaper anyway. (Is he right, clueless or somewhere in between? Email me.)

For more on the controversy:
- read this Network World article

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