The Gigabit Threshold Will Fall Not long ago, 100 Mbps seemed like enough. Then Gigabit seemed like enough. Today, when it comes to planning a cabling infrastructure, 10Gbps has emerged as the next step for satiating enterprise network bandwidth requirements. There always has been—and always will be— a need for more bandwidth. Data-intensive applications such as network storage and sharing of imaging and engineering documents alone can stretch the limits of a cabling system.