When will the speeds of optical computing make copper wire obsolete?
A. I never thought copper wire would be able to handle 1 gigabit, let alone 10. Now there are proprietary fabric designs out there that are looking at 20 gigabits per second all on copper wire. If someone switches to optical technology it will not be because of speed. It will be because optical computing is immune to electro- magnetic pulse and works more efficiently in high-electronic-noise applications like linear accelerators at CERN in Switzerland and other high-noise applications.
