Corning Thunderbolt 3 USB Type-C Active Optical Cable, 40 Gb/s

This is how you get a Thunderbolt 3 RAID or a capture chassis out of the edit bay and still keep the full 40 Gb/s. Built on Corning ClearCurve VSDN multimode fiber, the cable holds Thunderbolt 3 bandwidth to 50 meters from host to device, enough for one 5K display or two 4K displays, and Thunderbolt devices can still be daisy chained off the far end.

The Type-C connectors are flippable and reversible like any USB-C plug. Because the cable is all-dielectric there is no copper path between the two ends, which gives real galvanic isolation between rooms or floors, and thermal shutdown protection guards the transceivers against prolonged heat. Note the tradeoffs of an optical Thunderbolt run: it does not carry native USB or DisplayPort and it does not provide bus power, and Corning recommends it with macOS systems. Rated to 100N tensile strength and 0 C to 50 C, Class 1 laser per IEC 60825-1:2014, FCC Class B, CE, and RoHS 3.