Cable management and sometimes airflow.They're much larger diameter than sm or mm, require a larger bend radius than bend insensitive fiber, and you can't exactly cut them to length. If you just have a few uplink DACs you can make them work, but if you have a rack full of fiber strands and then throw in a few dozen DACs, after awhile you're just like "this is stupid..., brb grabbing some sfp+'s...".
On Oct 27, 2016 9:31 AM, "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]> wrote: > How is a DAC harder to manage? > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > > > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Josh Reynolds" <[email protected]> > *To: *[email protected] > *Sent: *Thursday, October 27, 2016 9:26:35 AM > *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti makes the big time... > > Well, I used to like DACs. Not so much anymore. > > Some of it has to do with cable organization, and inventory is the other > angle. > > Having transceivers and patches around is utilitarian. Having DACs around > is slightly cheaper, but those DACs are much harder to deal with from a > cable management perspective. > > I don't hate DACs, I just dislike the tradeoffs. > > On Oct 27, 2016 7:57 AM, "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Anything that doesn't support DACs is fucking worthless. >> >> >> I've ditched all ad-block, privacy, etc. extensions. They're garbage. >> >> >> >> ----- >> Mike Hammett >> Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> >> <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> >> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> >> <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> >> Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> >> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> >> <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> >> The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> >> >> >> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> >> ------------------------------ >> *From: *"Josh Reynolds" <[email protected]> >> *To: *[email protected] >> *Sent: *Thursday, October 27, 2016 7:50:21 AM >> *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti makes the big time... >> >> I complained about the DAC issue during the Alpha, as I just wanted to >> plug in the switch to a Juniper MX960 and throw some of the VM load on it. >> Sadly I ended up having to use short patch cables and fiberstore >> transceivers, which worked fine. >> >> I didn't experience the crashes the author did, although I "whitelist" >> all my hardware interfaces in my browser extensions... Maybe that was >> his/her issue, I don't know. >> >> Side note: the was about 6 months back >> >> On Oct 27, 2016 7:33 AM, "Mark Radabaugh" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The good news: kit gets reviewed on a major IT website. >>> The bad news: kit gets reviewed on a major IT website. >>> >>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/27/ubiquiti_edgeswitch_review/ >>> >>> Mark >>> >> >> >
