Holy Data Transfer Batman!!!

Steve Milner

Steve Milner

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Intel has come up with a new cable technology that has just started shipping on the nasty new Apple 15" MBpro. . . These numbers are just AWESOME.

Bi-Directional 10Gbps with a max cable length of up over 300' !!!

I bet this will end up in the audio world in the near future.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2380870,00.asp

EDIT: And it's name is... :twisted:Thunderbolt :twisted:
No... seriously... they really are calling it Thunderbolt.
 
Re: Holy Data Transfer Batman!!!

Steve Milner said:
Bi-Directional 10Gbps with a max cable length of up over 300' !!!
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That 300' is not with today's technology, which is limited to about 30'. When the transmission media is fiber optics the length will go up. The fiber specified in that article will not actually be 125 microns, that is the jacket diameter of current fibers, the actual fiber is either 62µ or 50µ for multimode fiber, or 6µ for single mode fiber. To get the kind of bandwidth they are talking about it will need to be single mode fiber (or maybe a new smaller fiber in the future).

Mac
 
Re: Holy Data Transfer Batman!!!

mackerr said:
That 300' is not with today's technology, which is limited to about 30'. When the transmission media is fiber optics the length will go up. The fiber specified in that article will not actually be 125 microns, that is the jacket diameter of current fibers, the actual fiber is either 62µ or 50µ for multimode fiber, or 6µ for single mode fiber. To get the kind of bandwidth they are talking about it will need to be single mode fiber (or maybe a new smaller fiber in the future).

Mac
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Good info Mac... it looks like they have already achieved the 10Gbps using copper and Intel is claiming up to 100Gbps in the next decade with new fiber technology. It will be exciting to see what happens as Apple begins to push it out the door... in the past they have done well with taking these new technologies to scale relatively quickly, which encourages faster development and a lower price point for the end user in increasingly quicker turn around times.
 
Re: Holy Data Transfer Batman!!!

Yup, Intel and the big computer houses have been working on this (light for data transmission) for years to overcome the speed bottlenecks of trying to pass data around between chip sets inside computers, even inside single ICs. Only logical to push that speed improvement outside the box.

I have long promoted the eventual destination for live audio, and studios for that matter, as being one large data network. This could change a several operating paradigms, but it will be mostly an evolution IMO.

JR
 
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