Apple behind Intel's new 10Gbps Optical Connector Standard
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Re: Apple behind Intel's new 10Gbps Optical Connector Standard
#2One standard to rule them all? Make it keyed like Firewire and it sounds like a real winner.
Re: Apple behind Intel's new 10Gbps Optical Connector Standard
#3One standard to rule them all? Make it keyed like Firewire and it sounds like a real winner.
It looks like this is going to blow USB3 out of the water.
Re: Apple behind Intel's new 10Gbps Optical Connector Standard
#4Hopefully this means we can standardize data exchange on something like Ethernet so that if some faster technology is invented on the physical layer, it would be easy to upgrade. This scenario is what Bonjour is made for. Imagine plugging in any peripheral into any port. The peripheral would automatically assign itself an IP address with zeroconf, assign itself a name with mDNS, and advertise its capabilities through services discovery, all without requiring a DHCP server or DNS server. The backside of your computer would be one power port and a whole bunch of Light Peak ports. No more fudging around with USB, FireWire, BlueTooth, DisplayPort, DVI, VGA, all of which are incompatible with each other but do the same task of moving data around.
Here's an excellent (but long) video on this topic: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7398680103951126462
Re: Apple behind Intel's new 10Gbps Optical Connector Standard
#5Don't think optical can carry power though, so would need a separate power port or a hybrid port for devices.
Re: Apple behind Intel's new 10Gbps Optical Connector Standard
#6Hopefully this means we can standardize data exchange on something like Ethernet so that if some faster technology is invented on the physical layer, it would be easy to upgrade. This scenario is what Bonjour is made for. Imagine plugging in any peripheral into any port. The peripheral would automatically assign itself an IP address with zeroconf, assign itself a name with mDNS, and advertise its capabilities through…
Thanks for linking to the video. I'm 10mins in and loving it.
Re: Apple behind Intel's new 10Gbps Optical Connector Standard
#7Don't think optical can carry power though, so would need a separate power port or a hybrid port for devices.
That's a good point, but it should be possible to have a hybrid cable--carrying power and the optical data.
Re: Apple behind Intel's new 10Gbps Optical Connector Standard
#8So in 2012 can we be expecting iphone (as cpu) > 10Gbps > Keyboard Video Mouse Network?
Re: Apple behind Intel's new 10Gbps Optical Connector Standard
#9One standard to rule them all? Make it keyed like Firewire and it sounds like a real winner.
Oh god no, Firewire is a particularly bad example of a keyed port.
When implemented cheaply using a split flanged socket, the plug can easily be pushed in backwards, spreading the flanges. Apple learned pretty quickly what a terrible idea that was, and switched to a design where there's a hard ABS ring inset in the aluminum exterior case. Unfortunately every other manufacturer continued with the shitty design.
On top of that, the power supply is 12v/1A, and is carried on one of the outside pins! If you shove it in backwards, power gets connected to data and fries the board. They should have used the central pins for power and ground.
I've personally seen at least a dozen cases of fried Firewire ports, including several epidemics where someone would fry ports on several computers using one bad device.
Re: Apple behind Intel's new 10Gbps Optical Connector Standard
#10Hopefully this means we can standardize data exchange on something like Ethernet so that if some faster technology is invented on the physical layer, it would be easy to upgrade. This scenario is what Bonjour is made for. Imagine plugging in any peripheral into any port. The peripheral would automatically assign itself an IP address with zeroconf, assign itself a name with mDNS, and advertise its capabilities through…
USB's simplistic interrupt-driven host-client nature makes it unbelievably awful for mass storage or streaming data.
Those same qualities make it terrific for cheap human input devices.