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Next-Gen Connectivity with Intel's Light Peak

The new Intel Light Peak is the latest next generation connectivity based on optical technology. It will support up to 10Gbps through a single optic cable and will be scalable up to 100Gbps. Using a single connection, multiple protocols can be supported. In short, you can have your network, video, audio and storage running through a cable. This would greatly reduce cabling complexity.

Here's what Intel demonstrated at IDF :-

A LaCie RAID storage box modified with a Light Peak connector. In it, they installed four SSDs, all configured in RAID 0.

Read/write speed through Light Peak was sustained at 772MB/s on average. Theoretically, it could go further than that but it's limited by how fast the SSDs could run.

Light Peak connectors look just like USB. It may not be the final implementation though.

A docking station based on Light Peak which demonstrates how it is able to handle several protocols at the same time.

A demonstration showing how devices in a video editing system are connected using Light Peak. In this demonstration, a laptop using Light Peak is connected to a video editing hardware box while the external storage box, TV and video camera are connected to the video editing device using the same Light Peak bus.

An LCD TV modified with Light Peak connectors. Two connectors are used for the purpose of daisy chaining devices together.

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