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Re: You thought you had... wiring issues!!!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nat Morris)
Tue Jul 31 17:57:47 2012

In-Reply-To: <5018490B.8000702@lcrcomputer.net>
From: Nat Morris <nat@nuqe.net>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:56:34 +0100
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 31 July 2012 22:07, Lyle Giese <lyle@lcrcomputer.net> wrote:
> good one!  One question, what are those big cables with the big boot on
> them?

Its the back of an outside broadcast truck, the cables are triax -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triaxial_cable

Boots are just used to protect the triax connector from damp when
either hooked up to the back of a camera or an outside patch bay -
http://www.steadicam-facilities.co.uk/images/equipment-triaxcameracable-163.jpeg


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