Intel announced Thunderbolt Networking for pc-to-pc connections

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Intel has Thunderbolt Networking announced. Soon appears a driver for pcs, which allows direct connections between pcs, compatible with existing Thunderbolt cables, including from Windows pc to Mac systems.

Thunderbolt Networking emulates an ethernet connection, and offer a theoretical throughput of 10Gbit/s between two computers. With existing cables and ports on the basis of Thunderbolt 2, users can as fast files between pcs, sharing. Users of Mac pcs could be interconnected via a Thunderbolt cable to exchange data: Apple’s brought that ability to the systems with the release of Mac OS X Mavericks.

When the pc driver exactly appears makes Intel is not known and is not known to which operating systems the driver, all seems to be obvious that Windows will sit. However, that demonstrates the manufacturer’s ability at the NAB show currently in Las Vegas taking place. Intel focuses with Thunderbolt 2 under other on workstation applications such as editing and transfer of 4k content. Intel announced Thunderbolt 2 last year, also during the NAB. The network offers theoretical speeds of 20Gbps per channel.