Distances though? I’ve seen similar breakthroughs in the past but it was only good for networking within the same room.

It’s optical fiber so it’s good for miles. Unlikely to be at home for decades but telcos will use it for connecting networks.

I wonder what non-telco applications will use this

I wonder if something like a sport stadium has video requirements that would get close with HFR 8K video?

Disaggregated compute might be able to leverage this in the data center. I could use this to get my server, gaming PC and home theater to share memory bandwidth on top of storage, heck maybe some direct memory access between distributed accelerators.

Gotta eat those PCI lanes somehow