Yup agree…. we have a couple of locations where there are many dozens of twinax cables used and same issue
> On Oct 27, 2016, at 10:35 AM, Josh Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] > <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]>> > To: [email protected] <mailto:[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] > <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]>> > To: [email protected] <mailto:[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] > <mailto:[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/ > <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/27/ubiquiti_edgeswitch_review/> > Mark > >
