Thunderbolt Networking

[Keith Koby]

I got some us info, but I’m not sure if it is public yet or not. Not nearly as bad as we thought compared to euro pricing, but still a little pricey. I think you could use a similar formula to what I put earlier in the thread to figure it out. think 75 or so per transceiver (so x2) and then add a respectable price per meter of cable. The figures I saw were fairly consistent to that formula. Obviously you can use the known 10 m pricing as a starting point.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Thanks, Keith.

If you have bought or looked at ANY kind of Gefen or similar system to extend displays, the cost of the cables is not that bad. Also, the increased capability of what you can do with one single Thunderbolt2 cable is very nice.

Jeremy

[Keith Koby]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Also, the increased capability of what you can do with one single Thunderbolt2 cable is very nice.”

Yeah that’s what I’m intrigued with. If you didn’t need switched video, you just run one thunderbolt cable from the machine room to the thunderbolt monitor in edit. From there you can t-tap out to your video monitor and de-embed audio to a mixer, you can plug in firewire, or thunderbolt or usb drives (i think it’s usb 2 now) right in to your computer at t-bolt speeds. Your t-bolt monitor becomes a monitor/tbolt breakout connector. And it’s all over 1 cable.

All of your actual video io, networking and machine control can stay nice and tidy right in the machine room. It doesn’t give you a kvm switchable infrastructure, but it is certainly tidier and nicely functional. Probably increases machine room runs to restart computers though…