[159058] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeroen van Aart)
Thu Dec 20 15:34:33 2012
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:34:11 -0800
From: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20121220184104.GA46518@wakko.typo.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12/20/2012 10:41 AM, Wayne E Bouchard wrote:
> How many people here have gotten good enough that they can cut a
> cable and pop connectors on each end in under 3 minutes? How many have
> gotten good enough that the failure rate for *hand made* cables is sub
> 1:1000? Show me another connector type where that will be true.
>
> Really, it will remain that way until the bandwidth needs from the
> desktop begin to push the GE threshold. Until then, why bother
> changing anything? When that does happen, it'll pretty well deal with
> itself.
I fully agree. I think the ethernet connector is pretty much the best
and most useful one out there. Anything can be improved, however both
from an admin and a user's perspective I can't find anything that works
better, easier and is as sturdy.
Regards,
Jeroen
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