A Little Intel Cable That Moves Data at a Staggering 800Gbps

This precious little green cable may look innocuous , but it can carry datum along its core at abreathtaking 800Gbps .

Based on Intel ’s Silicon Photonics technology , the cablesuses 64 fibers—32 for beam and 32 for receiving — each capable of moving data at 25Gbps . Multiply that up , and it can pitch 800Gbps in each direction , an aggregate of 1.6Tbps . Those fibers are brought together at the death by an MXC connexion — which does n’t stand for anything — which is importantly slimmer than a standard ethernet transmission line head word .

But do n’t bear to swap your USB 3.0 or Cat 5 cable for MXC anytime shortly . The cable are really designed to take the place of interconnect cables in data point centers and supercomputers , where they ’re intended to replace the 10Gbps overseas telegram usually used to connect switches and the like . Maybe one daylight , though , you ’ll have a tiptop - truehearted green cable , too . [ IntelviaArs Technica ]

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