why haven’t USB cables replaced every other cable, like Ethernet for example? They can transmit data, audio, etc. so why not make USB ports the standard everywhere?
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Lots and lots of reasons, usb isn’t designed to be a networking cable.
Range – depending on which flavour of usb, the maximum cable length is single figure meters, by comparison Ethernet is 90m.
Cost – you wouldn’t just be replacing cables, you’d be. Replacing billions of £££ worth of network infrastructure the world over.
Protocol – usb isn’t designed for networking, tcp and udp are the most prevalent protocols in use on networks, they’re optimised for its use. Then you’ve got addressing and routing concerns. Usb just isn’t designed to deal with this in a large scale standardised way.
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