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Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Fri Dec 21 12:30:14 2012

Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:29:35 +0000
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>
In-Reply-To: <50D4889D.1050505@mtcc.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:
>
> I'd turn this back the other way though: in this day and age, why do we
> have any interconnection/bus that isn't just ethernet/IP?

The need for isochronous transmission and more bandwidth.

Tony.
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