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Hot take. 40 Gbps is not a real rate; it's just four 10 Gbps in a trenchcoat stacked on top of one another!

Thats true for several other speeds too. 100GE first generation was 10x10GbE, second generation was 4x25GbE. 200GE first version was 25GbE based and so on.

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