[159051] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gary Buhrmaster)
Thu Dec 20 14:27:18 2012
In-Reply-To: <50D356DB.5090809@mtcc.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:25:24 -0800
From: Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com>
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 Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:
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> So why, oh why, nanog the omniscient do we still use rj45's?
Because 8P8C connectors are well understood (both
physically, and electrically)? And inertia matters.
On some newer kit, Apple has removed the Ethernet port
and uses a Thunderbolt <-> Ethernet dongle. Apple
seems to link Ethernet ports are too big.
