I will be very surprised if it doesn't start switching over to USB-C over the next decade or two. Having a single port capable of doing the entire local KVM dance using readily-available hardware is just a no-brainer.
Some switches have already started using USB-C for serial instead of RJ45. When the technician is 100% already carrying a smartphone and C-to-C cable to charge it, making the console available with zero additional adapters is quite attractive.
So, display out from USB-C cable is not display signal over USB 3.x digital signal, it's just an electronic analog patch-through to GPU. The pins in the port actually run raw DisplayPort signals when that feature is activated. So you can't plug a laptop to a server and get nicely packetized screen frames out over the USB host hardware. This is often not clearly communicated...
You can put a USB to RS232C or USB to Ethernet adapter behind the port to then expose ttyS0 or to serve a management webpage, that could happen, but I think the DB-9 and/or RGB would have to stay in that case.
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I will be very surprised if it doesn't start switching over to USB-C over the next decade or two. Having a single port capable of doing the entire local KVM dance using readily-available hardware is just a no-brainer.
Some switches have already started using USB-C for serial instead of RJ45. When the technician is 100% already carrying a smartphone and C-to-C cable to charge it, making the console available with zero additional adapters is quite attractive.
So, display out from USB-C cable is not display signal over USB 3.x digital signal, it's just an electronic analog patch-through to GPU. The pins in the port actually run raw DisplayPort signals when that feature is activated. So you can't plug a laptop to a server and get nicely packetized screen frames out over the USB host hardware. This is often not clearly communicated...
You can put a USB to RS232C or USB to Ethernet adapter behind the port to then expose ttyS0 or to serve a management webpage, that could happen, but I think the DB-9 and/or RGB would have to stay in that case.