• JustinA
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    16 hours ago

    Imagine putting out a new high bandwidth cable standard in 2025 based on copper.

    The sooner display and networking move to SFP, the better.

    • cmhe@lemmy.world
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      23 minutes ago

      SFP? You mean the every device has slots to plug in different transceiver modules? I guess that would make it more future proof, but I think that will raise the cost, and might confuse ordinary people.

      You have to think about the slot-transceiver compatibility and transceiver-medium compatibility then. Hmm… but I guess that would make it more transparent what is going on than having those chips embedded inside the cables, but not sure if we can leave them out, and require the end users to take care of thinking of all these compatibilities themselves or risk fire hazards.