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Originally Posted by HarryT
A network, though, particularly in a large company, doesn't only have a single data transfer going on at any given time. Larger bandwidth becomes much more useful if you're considering 100, 500, or 1000 computers all talking to each other simultaneously.
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That is a theoretical numbers game. Scaling up to multiple hundred computers under the same physical domain is not only a bandwith (speed) problem, but also a traffic problem (e.g. finding an unused slot). That is where you physically seperate the network into small sections and connect them through a fast switched backbone. Also becomes a security issue - you wouldn't want ALL company traffic exposed to everybody in the network.