What Benefits Can 10GBASE-T Copper Bring to Data Centers?
More than ten years ago 10GBASE-T was still a bud that had not shown its real beauty to us, but now it has been brought to data centers for almost ten years. A few years after 10GBASE-T copper was introduced into the market, it became widely available as LAN on Motherboard (LOM, a chipset that has been embedded directly on the motherboard and capable of network connections) or add-in adapters on servers. Why is it popularly adopted in data centers? What benefits does 10GABSE-T copper bring to data centers? Plentiful Benefits of 10GBASE-T Copper Adoption The benefits of 10GBASE-T copper can be measured in more than one aspect, including both obvious hardware part and hidden profits it can bring. Nature Endowed Benefits Like previous copper BASE-T standards, 10GBASE-T copper is backward compatible with 10/100/1000BASE-T. So using 10GBASE-T allows for a seamless migration from lower data rate to 10GbE. When used with already existing copper BASE-T, they can auto-negotiate t...