alt Hacker News> It's not the connector, it's the communication protocol
In particular the link training procedures needed to reliably push 48 Gbit/s over copper are probably very non-trivial, and could be considered "secret sauce".
> It's not the connector, it's the communication protocol
In particular the link training procedures needed to reliably push 48 Gbit/s over copper are probably very non-trivial, and could be considered "secret sauce".
That's done by the PHY layer, there's no need to implement that in software.