You'd think all cabling in nuke plant would be intrinsic... We have to use expensive shielded cabling on some of our waste water projects...poop gas goes boom...
On Thu, Sep 9, 2021, 10:41 AM Robert <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > > > > 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? > >> > > > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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