For home labbers and normal users, you can pair an SFP port with Ethernet cables using transceiver modules, making it more flexible than its rival. The biggest downside to SFP networks is their ...

While effective and cheap, this limited Ethernet to a 1.5 km cable run and 10 Mb/s transfer rate. As [Alan Kirby] worked at Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) in the 1980s and 1990s, he saw how ...