RE:RE:Very interesting informaton from Sean of Sophic Capital!Very good question Revinator. There are other issues than just distance. As comm. speeds approach 100Gb/s standard cable may not do the job. As well, the ticker and hevier standard copper cable is more difficult to route and reduces cooling efficacy.
I believe we'll get information on the first data center contract info in a month or two and that should clarify the issue. The last presentation said that fiber costs for data centers is $4.2 Billion. So either they misquoted the information or the original report didn't differentiate between between copper and fiber cables and the $4.2 billion included all cabling inlcluding copper and fiber. Perhaps an e-mail to S7 can clarify the matter. I'll try tomorrow.
Revinator wrote: Great info, thanks for sharing. As I understand the way cabling works in data centers, there is a need for short distance and long distance cables. Sometimes copper makes sense, other times fiber. Passive and active cables are both used. Point being, Spectra7 could play a role somewhere in the cabling architecture design. It is unclear to me what 'cable share' % (quantity or dollar value) Spectra7 can capture in a data center. This data does nicely illustrate the total cable revenue per data center however, and even a small % of one data center would be a very nice win for such a small company.