> Stock 100BaseT and 1000BaseT should be OK for home use and other > situations where the cables aren't disturbed often, but I question whether > the connectors (and maybe even the cable) would hold up in studio and field > recording. There should be an upgrade path to a more rugged alternative for > those situations. I think the avionics industry might be working on a MIL > spec Ethernet connector for military aircraft and shipboard use; it wouldn't > look anything like an RJ-45, of course.
I suspect that the RJ connector family is more rugged than it looks. Telephony equipment is intended to have a 40 year lifespan, (or at least it was back when the RJ family was developed) and telephones get some pretty brutal treatment. It's been around for what, 30 years or so, there should be data on its reliablilty. The latch can get snagged and break off, but they sell snagless cables now. The availablity of replacement cables is a plus, as is the reasonable price. If a higher spec cable/connector is desired, it should be waterproof, and rugged enough to be walked on repeatedly, yanked on, etc. > The technology surrounding the digital audio bus cable standard > could lead to generations of product evolution. For example, a host > computer quiet enough for the studio control room or the concert hall > probably couldn't be fan-cooled; this means major changes in packaging, and > might do away with the motherboard/daughterboard concept entirely. We might > end up with a purpose-built processor that has a KVM interface, multiple > SATA or i-SCSI ports, multiple digital audio bus channels, and nothing else > a PC tech would recognize as a computer. Processor cooling could be done by > natural convection with cooling fins covering most of the back panel, > possibly mediated by heat pipes. For many applications, the easy answer is to put the noisy computer off in another room. For applications that require a silent computer, there are high-end cases that are fanless. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
