Interesting Rainer. If you're correct, it confirms big savings for companies opting for Poet optical cables.

Here's a 10G active optical cable from Cisco that sells for 58$ (it varies for the lenght of the cable):

http://www.fs.com/products/30889.html

GLTA

P.S. Poet's website looks a lot like the one from Cisco. :-) http://www.cisco.com/