[Ground-station] The other kind of ground

[Bruce Perens]

Let's all of us hams lead a return to optical fiber for consumer equipment,
including data networking. It's easy to show that plastic fiber is
potentially cheaper than metal, and LEDs and photosensors are cheaper than
a wired Ethernet termination with all of the little ferrites etc. While
helping the world, we will incidentally reduce RFI for ourselves.

On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 11:42 AM, Douglas Quagliana <dquagliana at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Bruce,
>
> New houses are still being built with Cat-5e cabling, if they even have
> networking cables in the walls. I was going to jokingly suggest skipping
> the Cat-7 cabling and just waiting for Cat-8, but Cat-8 is apparently
> almost ready for release. However it is not intended for general use.
> Cat-8 is only for short runs in the data centers.
>
> Maybe just wait for Cat-9 cabling or end-to-end fiber without any
> copper in the data path. After all, it will still be called "Ethernet."
> :-)
>
> Happy 4th everyone,
> Douglas
> (Must...Resist...Puns...With...Cats...And...Nines...)
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 12:54 PM, Bruce Perens via Ground-Station <
> ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:
>
>> OK, tell me why I'm an idiot :-) https://perens.com/2018/07
>> /03/how-should-you-ground-your-shielded-ethernet-cable/
>>
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