Your cards just happen to be the same form-factor. So... so what?
On 10/14/2017 3:22 PM, [email protected] wrote:
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.
