Light Peak was low-power, and it used clever multiplexing to run multiple protocols over a single Better yet, Light Peak could even piggyback on top of USB cables, providing socket backwards compatibility — and to top it off, Intel said that 10Gbps was just the beginning: Gbps would be possible in the next decade!
Light Peak, in short, delivered a delicious hint of what a fast, flexible, and future-proof interconnect could do. Then Apple came along and ruined everything. Optical switching and interconnects are only found in enterprise-level routers for a reason: playing with light is expensive.
Light Peak was summarily binned and Thunderbolt was born. Apple wanted to include a next-generation technology to rival or even beat USB 3. In the same way that Apple championed FireWire for the replacement of parallel SCSI, Thunderbolt is meant as the next big thing in video and audio peripheral interfaces.
Continue Reading Add New Comment Telepresence Options welcomes your comments! Return to telepresenceoptions. Telepresence News. Press Releases. TPO Robotics. To be fair, there was never really any chance of Light Peak, in its original form, being built into Apple's latest products.
Optical switching and interconnects are only found in enterprise-level routers for a reason: playing with light is expensive. Light Peak was summarily binned and Thunderbolt was born. Apple wanted to include a next-generation technology to rival or even beat USB 3.
In the same way that Apple championed FireWire for the replacement of parallel SCSI, Thunderbolt is meant as the next big thing in video and audio peripheral interfaces. Just like FireWire, though, Thunderbolt is off to a slow start.
Even in its non-optical, crippled copper state, Thunderbolt is prohibitively expensive. USB 3. As a result -- and FireWire had the same problem -- we will only see Thunderbolt-enabled devices where the price of the controller can be transparently absorbed by a high list price: video cameras, high-end audio gear, and so on.
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