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Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Thu Dec 20 13:34:14 2012

From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
In-Reply-To: <50D356DB.5090809@mtcc.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:29:07 -0800
To: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On Dec 20, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:

> I was looking at a Raspberry Pi board and was struck with how large =
the ethernet
> connector is in comparison to the board as a whole. It strikes me: =
ethernet
> connectors haven't changed that I'm aware in pretty much 25 years.=20

Actually, I was just throwing some away yesterday, and it struck me how =
much things _had_ changed.

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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps214/products_tech_note091=
86a00801f5d86.shtml

                                -Bill







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