From rmilner at aoc.nrao.edu  Tue May 21 00:13:40 2002
From: rmilner at aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 22:13:40 -0600
Subject: [comm]keeping wire quality high
Message-ID: <3CE9C974.5B640049@aoc.nrao.edu>

Amusing excerpt from the InformationWeek online daily digest. I wonder
what the RFI is like from this puppy? :-)

Ruth.
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** Maybe They'll Call The Service 'Pasture Prime'

It's safe to assume that barbed wire won't ever be the first 
choice for LAN cabling, but in case we're wrong, Gigabit Ethernet 
hardware vendor Wideband Corp. says it's got the back 40 covered. 
Demonstrating how its hardware overcomes cable problems, the 
company shows live DVD-quality video at gigabit speeds over 
outmoded Category 3 LAN cabling pierced by nails, tied in knots, 
and strung parallel to AC power lines. The last several feet of 
the line is even replaced by eight strands of barbed wire.

Category 5E, the current first choice for Gigabit Ethernet 
wiring, is two generations more advanced than Category 3 wire and 
at least a century newer than barbed wire. - John Rendleman

Get more information on this topic. Read:
WorldCom Launches New Ethernet Services
http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/flo?y=eHQb0BfRSs0V20Bc2g0Ae