[195793] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: 100G QSFP28 DAC cables - experience
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Naslund, Steve)
Sat Sep 16 04:27:45 2017
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: "Naslund, Steve" <SNaslund@medline.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:37:12 +0000
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