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How is 10GBASE-T able to get so much data into 400 MHz, when USB 3 had to go to 3 GHz to achieve the same thing?

Other than the fact 10GBASE-T buyers are ready to spend a lot more per port :)



USB 3 is a pretty plain 8b10b scheme. 10GBASE-T uses a far more complex modulation scheme which uses forward error correction, then applies a PAM-16 modulation and then packs two PAM-16 symbols into a 2D constellation of 128 symbols called DSQ128 (curiously two PAM-16 symbols would encode 256 values, but DSQ128 only contains 128).

Four pairs vs one pair already quarters the bandwidth requirements on top of that.


Is there a reason that USB isn't adopting those techniques? Too much compute required? Four pair cabling is prohibitively more expensive in this niche?




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