Actually all the products have shielded Ethernet ports, furthermore we integrated gas discharge tubes (GDTs) on the pins of the A5 and B5 GigE port for added ESD protection in both the radio enclosure, as well as in our custom designed GigE PoE power supply.
Jaime Fink CPO and co-founder, Mimosa > On Oct 21, 2014, at 8:49 AM, Ken Hohhof via Af <[email protected]> wrote: > > Plus people will argue over which is best, to connect the shields at both > ends or just one end. So if Matt really likes the shielded cable, maybe a > shielded plug at the POE end and no shield connection at the Mimosa radio is > good? > > > -----Original Message----- From: cstanners--- via Af > Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 10:32 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mimosa pipe dream? > > Shielded cat5 should not have any effect on lightning losses - the induced > currents would go down the ground wire of whatever bigger structure gets > affected before going down the shield of the cat5. > > > ------Original Message------ > From: Matt via Af > Sender: Af > To: [email protected] > ReplyTo: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mimosa pipe dream? > Sent: Oct 21, 2014 10:27 AM > > I also see in there pictures the ethernet ports look like there not > shielded? We run shielded cat5 on everything now. Lowered our > lightning losses when we made that switch. > > >
