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During his keynote about the evolution of the TV platform, Justin Rattner also demoed Intel's idea about ridding the world of various different types of cables, unifying everything under one type of optical cable, Light peak.
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During his keynote about the evolution of the TV platform, Justin Rattner also demoed Intel's idea about ridding the world of various different types of cables, unifying everything under one type of optical cable, Light peak.
CE = Consumer Electronics I presume?
I've always wondered what the considerations for optical comms are. I'm used to dealing with electrical stuff - transfer functions, impulse responses, impedances, selectivity etc. What are the big issues with getting data down a tube as light? Anyone?
Yes Funkstar, Consumer Electronics. sorry!
IT CANNOT COME SOON ENOUGH!!!
Much of the digital world is now limited by bandwidth constraints, with the electronics on the ends able to go far faster. In the case of many devices the only way to improve performance is to shorten cables / tracks on PCBs so as to shave nanoseconds off signal times.
By switching to light, we would open up the digital world massively.
@Steve: if you want to know the constraints of using fibre optic cable and the difficulties in implementing it, just take optical SPIDIF as an example:
- Very high quality signal
- flexible cables
- Small connectors
This kind of technology coud be expanded very easily to replace many of the horribly limiting copper cables which are bogging are systems down!
Appologies for length of rant!! :angst: