[159061] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Thu Dec 20 17:15:01 2012
In-Reply-To: <50D3716C.5090408@mtcc.com>
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:14:14 -0800
To: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2012-12-20, at 12:13 PM, Michael Thomas wrote:
> Do these
> things need to have gig-e speeds? Probably not... for a lot even =
Bluetooth speeds
> are probably fine. But they do want to be really small and really =
inexpensive.
Then run RS-422 or RS-485 over a single twisted pair. You don't even =
need a connector =96 you can solder directly to the PCB.
--lyndon
