Hi! I'm Altan, another member of Murex. Many of the design decisions behind the switch were driven by the requirements of our underwater robot. In our case, the communication speed was capped by the transfer speed achieved over our tether (we use galvanically isolated OFDM to inject data over our powerlines). Since size and cost were our primary goals, 100mbit was more suitable than gigabit ethernet. While it would have been cooler to have a gigabit switch, it would also increase the size and cost.
