Re:Why did old PCs have key locks? (2017) [video]
by Godel_unicode on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @11:29PM
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Modern datacenter switches are still this way, see SFP+/QSFP.
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Re:Why did old PCs have key locks? (2017) [video]
by eropple on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @11:34PM
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Not just for that, though it's important--as I understand it, the electronics needed to feed data at high rates over RJ-45 are actually surprisingly difficult. Going much over 10Gbit (currently expensive) over RJ-45 is going to be prohibitive.