Okay, so I finally just noticed - it does not RUN at 10Gb/s, it has 10Gb/s of bandwidth. Speeds have not been mentioned at all. Thus I would assume for now we'll start low and build up, maybe see some 1Gb/s stuff to replace LAN connectivity eventually etc.
I wonder how they will designate it then. Will we have motherboards with 3x LightPeak-100 cables for 100Mb/s speed, and 2 LightPeak-1000 cables for gigabit speeds (etc)? I can see this being quite a headache for many people as they discover speed mismatches. It will be like USB 1.1 -> 2.0 all over again... repeatedly. Though likely with better speed results.
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Edit: One last question that I'm wondering if anyone has seen addressed yet - with fiber optics in networking, we tell people to NEVER look at the fiber when a laser is running in it as baaaad things happen. With LED's is not such a big deal. Has anyone heard anything on this one way or another?
Edit II: You can probably tell I'm geeking out on this a bit. My work and favorite hobbies revolve around device interconnects
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