In the last few weeks we have seen a major announcement
coming out from the IEEE, followed by the supporting
marketing hype from certain switch technology vendors,
making several very bold claims which border on the
irresponsible.

Back in 2013 the IEEE set up a task force under the designation
of NGBase-T which set out to investigate getting higher and
higher speeds over copper twisted pair cables. The first task
was to try and get 40Gb Ethernet over what has become
Category 8 cabling. This was given the designation 802.3bq,
the background of which was more about the economics of
copper vs fibre interfaces in the switch, rather than anything
around a performance upgrade.

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