Charles, you’re alive? Did you do a Brick Tamland? Did you bring ray guns from the future?
Oh, and I don’t think metal glands necessarily require terminating the cable after passing through the gland (something that should be avoided at all costs). If I’m remembering right when we installed some Exalt G2 links, they had a metal gland that you could pass a cable terminated with a shielded plug through. And that’s their entry level radio. I could be remembering wrong though, I don’t have one here to look at. Lots of plastic glands have that problem. We go through it with WiMAX CPE, and I remember doing that with a SAF 24 GHz link. From: Charles Wu via Af Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014 4:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [AFMUG] Microwave Backhaul Ethernet Grommets - Feedback Wanted Trying to figure out some Ethernet grommets and since you guys would be the ones directly using/installing these, thought I’d ask for input rather than just trying to guess what’s best for everyone – trying to decide metal vs. plastic Metal - Cannot put Ethernet cable through (need to crimp connector AFTER cable has gone through) - Expensive ($30+ / grommet) – when we’re trying to be competitive against Trango/SAF/etc with an all-outdoor microwave backhaul, every dollar counts (especially if we’re talking up to 4 connectors) - Feels more *rugged* Plastic: - Can put Ethernet cable through with the end on - Cheap ($0.50/grommet) – can throw a bunch of these in with every radio without increasing the price, and could send them out to customers without charging them if a customer needed things - Doesn’t *look/feel* as industrial / rugged as the metal grommet All suggestions / comments / thoughts are welcome Plastic Metal
