Apple pushed Intel to develope 10Gbps "Light Peak"

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I'm afraid that you don't really understand the purpose of this is. It's put simply more of a dock port for laptops than anything else. It's meant to connect a laptop to all external devices inclouding routers and internet connections in general. I don't see anything wrong in that...

I understand the purpose, what I'm concerned about is performance and appropriateness.

If it operates under 10Gb/s, then we need to know what speed it actually runs at because there are a lot of purpose-built cables out there that might handle our data faster. If it is hideously expensive, we need to know that too.

As far as what it is "meant to do" - it's meant to be able to connect anything to anything. But you can't just arbitrarily do that. You can't just arbitrarily connect to a switch then to another PC and expect to get 10Gb/s speed - the switch/router has to actually process data at the throughput speed, and I promise you that no consumer technology can do that today. Which brings us back to my question - How Fast Is It?


@steve:I'm not saying that this couldn't be good - I want to see pricing and exact speed specs. As to the copper issue - yes, we're at about the limit of Cat 6. Cat 7 is available though, it's just not popular because there is no reason to use it right now. I'm not against fiber for connecting to things around the home, but I think it's something to approach very, very cautiously. I also know about DWDM, I would be shocked if multiple wavelengths weren't in use to get the 10Gb/s out of a link they plan to sell to customers.

I also have a problem with people pushing optics for home use because:
1. It's not installed in any homes (yet) - maybe get it installed then worry about replacing ports with it
2. If you have a jack issue... man, you have to hire a pro to come fix it, and the fix is not cheap.

Edit: Steve, what are you doing out of Storage? Back to your cave! :P j/k, it's nice to see out out and about.