The new Ignitenet stuff can do 2.5gig over copper, but I can't imagine there's much demand for 10 gig in the wireless world... maybe in enterprise wifi type products.
But I suspect there are uses for surge suppressors that don't involve wireless... On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Jay Weekley <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there much demand for 10 gig over copper for the wireless world? > > > > Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE smartphone > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: [email protected] > Date: 10/14/17 3:22 PM (GMT-06:00) > To: [email protected] > Subject: [AFMUG] ethical delimma? > > My line of APC surge suppressors got invented because someone got hit by a > storm at their NOC and everything was fried. And everything was protected > by the APC rack mount surge suppressor. They sent me the cards and asked > me to see why they didn’t work. > > I was already in the surge suppressor business at that point and I did > analyze the card and sent them a report. They asked me if I could make one > of the same form factor that actually did work. I did that the rest is > history. > > I have been working hard to edge closer to something that is functional on > 10 Gbps circuits. I test every design on a TIA CAT6A Perm Fixture test. > Getting dangerously close to passing that spec. In doing so, all the > traces are now balanced differential pair RF striplines with controlled > impedance and length matching etc. It has not been easy. > > I recently purchased the latest APC surge protector that some sites claim > to be good to 10 Gbps. I discovered little has changed since the early > days and there is no way in hell it can do 10 Gbps. The return loss and > NEXT are horrible at the higher speeds. I am surprised it even works well > at 1 Gbps. > > I really want to have a comparison chart on my website comparing my stuff > with theirs. But I worry about several items: > The testing is not done by an independent third party. > (I might be fudging the data...) > I don’t want any product slander letters from their lawyers. > I really don’t want them to re-design the product so it works (better). > > I guess I can publish the technical test specs with a comparison to an > un-named similar product. > That seems silly as there are only two manufacturers that I know of that > makes cards that fit that rack. >
