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The final and perhaps most important point is that in order to be cost-effective, an optical solution should be able to match the price point of copper interconnect or offer a performance improvement metric. Although many different cost models are available for copper vs. optical, the real inflection point will likely be driven by other market conditions such as competition or technology innovation in markets outside of the telecom, datacom, or computercom markets. Cost will remain an excuse until someone else does it first. The industry might have to create and accept new cost models that take into consideration the bandwidth performance of blades and systems in order to break through the cost barrier.