[lillecarl]

https://www.fs.com/de-en/products/115636.html 2 meters seems to be about 100$, which isn't unreasonable.

If you're going fiber instead of twinax it's another order of magnitude and a bit for trancievers, but cables are pretty cheap still.

You seem to be loading negative energy into this release from the get-go

[metadat]

You're going to need a lot more than 2 meters... It's probably AOC (Active-Optical Fiber Cable), they're pricey even for 40Gbit, at DC lengths.

[pezezin]

2 meters is enough to connect a server to a leaf ToR switch.

Now, connecting the leaf switches to the spine is a different story...