[195766] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: 100G QSFP28 DAC cables - experience
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jameson, Daniel)
Fri Sep 15 04:47:43 2017
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: "Jameson, Daniel" <Daniel.Jameson@tdstelecom.com>
To: Brant Ian Stevens <branto@argentiumsolutions.com>, Tyler Conrad
<tyler@tgconrad.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:29:25 +0000
In-Reply-To: <59BAE0D9.6090201@argentiumsolutions.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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