Alternative Transmission Consideration for Digital Audio

Just to post some photos of the optical transceiver for high speed network transmission here.

Pulse Transformer on 10/100 BaseTX



Optical Transceiver on OC3/ATM






Optical Transceiver on Gigabit-Ethernet



Optical Transceiver on OC48







XENPAK Optical Transceiver on 10GE



The Question on My Mind

What if we use those solution to replace the TOSLink?
What will happen? Interesting ................