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[James Salsman]

> Neither of Calxeda's articles gives a figure for capital cost

I think they went under the moment their first competitor charging typical
markups (Mitac) started shipping. Get some GFX servers and some of these to
do your own tests: http://www.mitac.com/Business/7-Star.html

> you can't just plug a fiber cable into an ethernet socket

The RADXA Rock includes SPDIF, and it's open source. Spare fiber isn't more
expensive than spare Ethernet, but it's far more resistant to
eavesdropping. http://wiki.radxa.com/Rock/hardware_revision