Most consumers do not have optical infrastructure, nor need L3/L2 management functionality, and most probably don't need 10G speeds. Likely the cost-per-port re

Most consumers do not have optical infrastructure, nor need L3/L2 management functionality, and most probably don't need 10G speeds. Likely the cost-per-port results in additional enterprise features being added to enterprise-grade products to justify the cost increase. 10GBASE-T likely cannot compete at commodity level pricing, as removing all the bells and whistles still results in 10x per port cost increase. However it seems a dumb 10GBase-T switch seems rare/non-existant, so we're left with options that are 20 - 30x the cost. You could say there is value in the bulk bandwidth available, but 30x is 30x, and needs considered justification, rather than being a "no brainer". Most of the power concerns are related to 10GBASE-T, and it may only be few watts difference, but that could make a difference for mobile devices, and there is also cost per transceiver. Again practically no laptop or consumer motherboard is coming with an SFP port, and 10GBASE-T IC could be 10x the cost of a 1000BASE-T. 2.5GBASE-T is starting to show up on some consumer-level devices though.