[159042] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Howard C. Berkowitz)
Thu Dec 20 13:55:30 2012
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:40:51 -0500
From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@netcases.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <50D356DB.5090809@mtcc.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12/20/2012 1:20 PM, Michael Thomas 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.
> Every other
> cable has changed several times in that time frame. I imaging that if
> anybody
> cared, ethernet cables could be many times smaller. Looking at wiring
> closets,
> etc, it seems like it might be a big win for density too.
>
> So why, oh why, nanog the omniscient do we still use rj45's?
>
> Mike
>
>
Seen an AUI or vampire tap recently? Vampires made a certain amount of
sense, but the AUI connector seemed to have little purpose other than
recycling weak metal from Coors beer cans. IIRC, the inventor apologized.
