I also seem to recall that fiber is more likely to degrade in space due
to radiation. We had issues with fiber runs from Nuke plants having to
be heavily shielded when it was near the containment and not in
man-spaces.. But this was in 1980 when fiber was a pretty new tech..
On 9/9/21 9:03 AM, Bill Prince wrote:
Ethernet is media agnostic. Fiber is a specific flavor. Likewise, cat5
would just be media specific.
bp
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On 9/9/2021 8:58 AM, Nate Burke wrote:
I'm watching the live spacewalk that is on. They keep referencing
that they are routing a new 'Ethernet' cable on the outside of the
spacestation as a redundant data path between 2 modules. I would
think that they would do everything as Fiber to prevent RF
Interference. Is it because they just recently upgraded the
computers from Token Ring? Or is it really a fiber line, and they
just keep calling it Ethernet. Or are Fiber components really heavy
to lift into space, or big power draws?
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