“What Category 8 copper cabling will do for the data center is let them transport data four times faster on essentially the same type of cable they now use,” says Sterling Vaden, chair of TIA 42.7, the TIA subcommittee on copper cabling systems. “That makes great sense application-wise and economically, because the intended data rate being developed by IEEE is 40-Gb, 4 times faster than 10GBase-T, using the same or less power per port, which has an unofficial target of less than 2 Watts.”