I recently posted an article on the subject to my blog and thought some here may find it useful.
Here's a brief overview of the content:
"Important technology advances and significant price and performance improvements have enabled 10 Gigabit Ethernet to be deployed not only in data centers but also throughout university and corporate networks. Broader deployments of 10 Gigabit Ethernet are being accelerated by increasing bandwidth requirements and the aggregate growth of enterprise applications, examples of which are discussed within"
Here's the link to the whole article: