10Gbps will become affordable in 2023, when the last patents covering it expire. 10Gbps right now is not expensive because it's expensive to implement, it's ex

10Gbps will become affordable in 2023, when the last patents covering it expire. 10Gbps right now is not expensive because it's expensive to implement, it's expensive because the royalties demanded by the patent holders are absurd. They are so bad they are probably counterproductive -- if they asked for less per port, it could have maybe ended up as the default standard on every device already, resulting in more royalties overall. In any case, the last relevant patent expires iirc summer of 2023, very soon after that there will be a lot of fast, cheap NICs, and soon after that, it will just be embedded into everything.