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The "copper cliff" is the biggest bottleneck in the data center today, but a new startup with a weird name thinks they’ve found a way to bridge the gap between heavy copper and expensive optics. In this video, we’re looking at Point2 Technologies and their E-Tube system—a hybrid interconnect that uses plastic waveguides to send millimeter-wave RF signals.
This was a very interesting listen. It sounds like it won't scale as high bandwidth-wise as fiber long term, but it finds a potential sweet spot in cost vs. distance and bandwidth inbetween copper and fiber.
