[94536] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Foster)
Wed Jan 24 23:14:08 2007
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:47:07 +1300 (NZDT)
From: Mark Foster <blakjak@blakjak.net>
To: Matthew Sullivan <matthew@sorbs.net>
Cc: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <45B817D9.8080003@sorbs.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> age of 35). Also you could ask your friendly local full license, old school
> radio ham etc etc... It's a dying skill, not because it isn't good, but
> because it takes training/practice and time. Tiewraps (Zip ties) are cheap,
> quick and require little (if any) training.
>
When I sat my ham license, tying cables wasn't a component of the course.
:) Though of course, many older-school licensees are probably from telco
or professional RF backgrounds. (We wont mention how many years _under_
the average age, I am...)
The other thing I found interesting; The use of Zip Ties on Copper Cabling
is frowned upon by BICSI. Velcro preferred.
Something to do with the compression on a twisted-pair cable caused by
over-tight nylon cable ties screwing with their twist rates, and thus
changing their Crosttalk characteristics...
Mark. (Sporting the scars from poorly trimmed cable ties!)
