Light Peak is an ODI (Optical Device Interconnect) or I/O technology demonstrated at IDF this past week. It is a bus standard invented and developed by Apple and brought to Intel for production. It’s the one cable to rule them all, replacing Firewire, USB, and DisplayPort (Ethernet, HDMI and eSATA?). This new technology seems pretty much targeted to high-end video or graphics professionals, and is the kind of interconnect we kind of anticipate will be used in the future digital home. …but hey isn’t that Mac OS X running? …that’s interesting to say at least!
With speeds achieving 10Gb/s (theoretical limit of 100Gb/s). 10Gb/s is fast, that’s 10x faster than Gigabit Ethernet and it’s duplex meaning both tx and rx are 10Gb/s as the same time.
The advantage of this technology is that all other interconnect cables will become redundant. Yeah I hear you say: again just an other standard, but I tell you this is different. It totally fits in Apple’s Media Hub strategy and the new standard will play a very important role in upcoming products from Cupertino.
The video shows a video card driving a HD monitor as well as a 2GB file copy all happening win a few seconds. All we need is a cool marketing name from the boys of Cupertino or will this be the single PORT of failure?
