On 06/26/2018 10:31 AM, Mark J. Blair via cctalk wrote:
What does non-intrusive mean in this context? I thought that thick ethernet taps always required drilling a hole in the cable.
There are taps that screw onto the N connectors. Thus you have to intrusively disconnect segments, to insert the (so called) tap.
Conversely, you can drill / clamp / tap onto live segments in a non-intrusive manner.
My assumption was that "tap" comes from the second form. I always thought there was a different name for the first form. But I believe they were less common, hence fall under the "tap" term which is more popular.
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