The following cited statements can be read in the respective presentation slides.
Brad Booth - Chair, IEEE P802.3an Task Force:
"Bandwidth is forever growing; therefore, the question is not 'Is 100 Gigabit Ethernet required?' but rather 'When will 100 Gigabit Ethernet be economically viable?'"
AND
"802.3 only understands orders of magnitude"
Mike Bennett - Senior Network Engineer, LBLnet Services Group Lawrence Berkeley National Lab:
about drawbacks in using Network Link Aggregation (LAG) to achieve higher transmission speeds
"* Distribution algorithms are not optimal
* Complexity outweighs advantage when the number of links in the channel is more than 4"
Adam Bechtel - Director, Global Network Architecture Yahoo!:
"Any new standard should be at least 80GE."
