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Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ross Harvey)
Thu Dec 20 14:19:19 2012
In-Reply-To: <50D35BD8.3030004@mtcc.com>
From: Ross Harvey <ross.harvey@appfolio.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:15:41 -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
Do note that the 8P8C on the Raspberry Pi has integrated magnetics
that you can't see without an x-ray imager. The space is not as wasted
as some might think.
Nothing stops a mfr from using whatever they want and providing a
dongle, but now they need board space for the transformers.
