[41135] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Thu Aug 30 00:01:02 2001
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From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: 'Daniel Senie' <dts@senie.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 21:01:43 -0700
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|> From: Daniel Senie [mailto:dts@senie.com]
|> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 8:25 PM
|>
|> At 11:10 PM 8/29/01, Vadim Antonov wrote:
|>
|> >On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Andrew Partan wrote:
|> >
|> > > I have proposed to various router vendors the
|> possibility of giving
|> > > them a chilled water feed instead of lots of cool air. At the
|> > > moment they seem to not need it, but I would not be surprized to
|> > > find something like this needed at some point.
|> >
|> >Err. Water and electricvity make a dangerous mix.
|>
|> And this was not a problem in IBM Mainframe computers because?
|>
|> I'm not registering an opinion one way or the other at this point on
|> whether routers should consider other forms of cooling, but
|> using water or
|> other liquids to cool electronics is not a new concept. Properly
|> engineered, there is no particular danger.
No particular danger, except what it does to the operational budget.
