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Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Thomas)
Fri Dec 21 12:51:35 2012

Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:51:19 -0800
From: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>
To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1212211727190.27013@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 12/21/2012 09:29 AM, Tony Finch wrote:
> 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.
>
>

That's why G*d invented RTP, of course. And all of these buses are "slow"
by the time they're popular enough to worry about. In any case, delete
the "ethernet" part if you want to still play with the mac/phy.

Mike


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