If Intel (NASDAQ: INTEL) has its way, the next interconnect technology you use will be its Light Peak optical cabling technology. Indeed, Intel senior fellow Kevin Kahn was quoted by IDG News Service as saying at the Intel Developer Forum that "We view this as a logical future successor to USB 3.0."

As reported by The Register, Light Peak has two key advantages over USB 3.0, the first being that it has a peak speed of 10Gbps, with ability to scale up to 100Gbps in the future.  In addition, the optical cables used for Light Peak can be up to 100 meters long; and carry multiple protocols over the same cable at the same time.

Of course, one disadvantage of optical fiber cables is that it can't provide power to connect devices, something which USB 3.0 is capable of doing.  And for all its promises, it isn't a technology that is already shipping, unlike USB 3.0--albeit not yet widely available.

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