IIRC, it takes about 13W to maintain a 10GBASET connection. That's a lot of power to drain from a tiny board that wasn't designed to supply such loads.
~tom On Saturday, February 1, 2014 1:32:58 PM, Phil Bedard <bedard.p...@gmail.com> wrote: Pluggable SFP+ transceiver. There are plenty of fixed config 10GBase-T devices out there. Power/space in a SFP+ package just isn't there yet. Phil On 2/1/14, 4:18 PM, "Jared Mauch" <jared <ja...@puck.nether.net>@<ja...@puck.nether.net> puck.nether.net <ja...@puck.nether.net>> wrote: > >On Feb 1, 2014, at 4:05 PM, Phil Bedard <bedard.phil<bedard.p...@gmail.com> @ <bedard.p...@gmail.com>gmail.com <bedard.p...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >> As for 10GBase-T in a transceiver, I haven't seen that on anyone's >> roadmap. It will probably come eventually but not for awhile. > >It must exist, as there is this: > >http://<http://store.apple.com/us/product/HC294LL/A/atto-thunderlink-nt1102-thunde> store.apple.com<http://store.apple.com/us/product/HC294LL/A/atto-thunderlink-nt1102-thunde> /us/product/HC294LL/A/<http://store.apple.com/us/product/HC294LL/A/atto-thunderlink-nt1102-thunde> atto<http://store.apple.com/us/product/HC294LL/A/atto-thunderlink-nt1102-thunde> -<http://store.apple.com/us/product/HC294LL/A/atto-thunderlink-nt1102-thunde> thunderlink<http://store.apple.com/us/product/HC294LL/A/atto-thunderlink-nt1102-thunde> -nt1102-<http://store.apple.com/us/product/HC294LL/A/atto-thunderlink-nt1102-thunde> thunde<http://store.apple.com/us/product/HC294LL/A/atto-thunderlink-nt1102-thunde> >rbolt-to-10-gbits-ethernet-desklink-device > >- Jared
