If you liked the idea of ‘Superspeed USB’ aka USB 3.0, which delivers about 10 times the performance of USB 2.0, you’re really going to like Light Peak, which does data transfers at 10 Gbps (as Paul Otelini, Intel CEO says in the video, that’s a Blu-ray movie in under 30 seconds). The claim is that it will ultimately replace all the cables connecting devices in your home: SCSI, FireWire, SATA, USB, and HDMI, and also obviously reduce the variety of ports that devices currently have. This is coming later in 2010.
This is not about connecting you to the Internet faster, it’s a last-mile solution that’s about replacing all these relatively slow cables in places that fiber-optic cables could not be used before, namely inside houses and apartments. A new technology from Corning called ClearCurve makes it possible to route fiber cables around tight radius curves, using nanostructure reflectors to contain the light within the fiber. These cables are even smaller than the copper wiring they will replace. According to Intel, Light Peak will work for storage devices, monitors/displays and for networking.
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#1 Any insight about specification?