Read more.‘Practical realities’ preventing optical tech from being used straight away.
Read more.‘Practical realities’ preventing optical tech from being used straight away.
That's a bit of a disappointment... Not really "Light Peak" now is it?!
How about "Copper Bottom" ?
"I want to be young and wild, then I want to be middle aged and rich, then I want to be old and annoy people by pretending that I'm deaf..."
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you can get 10 gbps over CAT5e but only at very very short distances so its nothign new really.
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Well, it is something new, because Light Peak is about more than just the speed. The magic is that it's protocol agnostic, so you can send your Ethernet, USB, and DisplayPort signals down a single wire, and just have it break out into the different connectors at the other end.
In theory, it could completely change how we - and by we, I mean component manufacturer's - build the insides of computers, with all of the signals being taken by this one wire.
"Copper Bottoming" was quite the advance in shipping, made them much more streamlined (thanks to lack of weeds and hull deterioration) and thus faster ;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_sheathing
They may also be thinking that they can further down the line sell you optical version and make
more money.
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