With representatives from 25 companies overwhelmingly pledging support for the formation of the 25GBASE-T study group, the likes of Microsoft, Cisco and Intel driving the party bus, and a demonstrated broad market potential, 25GBASE-T is definitely a welcomed partygoer. Why is 25GBASE-T considered a more cost-effective step in the migration to 40GBASE-T? Not only does it support the backwards compatibility of BASE-T technology and enable equipment vendors to limit the power per port to under 3W, it can also leverage existing transceiver technology to establish a fixed migration path to 40GBASE-T over the same 30-meter channel.