From my own perusal of networking stuff i'm looking at whats on the direct horizon but since people here are pretty cutting edge they might know things beyond my random reading.
I'm considering wiring up a couple houses for Ethernet. I hate wifi and if I do it, i'd rather not do it more than once or/and have any need to re-do it held off for whats probably the perceivable life of the cable. (what is the likely lifespan of ethernet cable anyway?)
What i'm thinking of doing is going right for CAT8 assuming that is a standard and running two ports to each room of 40gig capable Ethernet while limiting to 30m runs. Is this as far as the future is likely to allow with the backward compatible 8p8c connectors/like will even faster speeds be forever constrained to fiber and thus needing a separate drop anyways? I want something I can plug existing gear into whether its a 100mbit original Xbox game console or a 10gig server, I have no immediate need for 40 direct to any PC but figured it makes it easy to stick a hub in a room to serve a number of PC's full bandwidth as well so there's little downside. Thinking dual ports because regardless of speed, you can have physical port failures or wire damage and such too.
I mean is there ever likely to be a Cat 9 copper solution for 100gig that's using a compatible connector or is that at least (x) years off from consideration let alone production?
I'm considering wiring up a couple houses for Ethernet. I hate wifi and if I do it, i'd rather not do it more than once or/and have any need to re-do it held off for whats probably the perceivable life of the cable. (what is the likely lifespan of ethernet cable anyway?)
What i'm thinking of doing is going right for CAT8 assuming that is a standard and running two ports to each room of 40gig capable Ethernet while limiting to 30m runs. Is this as far as the future is likely to allow with the backward compatible 8p8c connectors/like will even faster speeds be forever constrained to fiber and thus needing a separate drop anyways? I want something I can plug existing gear into whether its a 100mbit original Xbox game console or a 10gig server, I have no immediate need for 40 direct to any PC but figured it makes it easy to stick a hub in a room to serve a number of PC's full bandwidth as well so there's little downside. Thinking dual ports because regardless of speed, you can have physical port failures or wire damage and such too.
I mean is there ever likely to be a Cat 9 copper solution for 100gig that's using a compatible connector or is that at least (x) years off from consideration let alone production?