I still suspect we'll see much cheaper gear once the patents expire, though it might be due to more computationally expensive encoding. 10GBASE-T was standardi

I still suspect we'll see much cheaper gear once the patents expire, though it might be due to more computationally expensive encoding. 10GBASE-T was standardized in 2006 so 2027+ hopefully? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Gigabit_Ethernet#Copper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Gigabit_Ethernet#Copper