Registered: Jan 2001
Location: library
Posts: 19562

Over a piece of barbed wire....

http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/video_audio_archive/?all

About 3/4 of the way down, "long reach ethernet", can I just say HOLY SHIT!

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Registered: Jan 2001
Location: WDM, IA
Posts: 2963

Fuck me.

I had a fairly long reply here. And IE window hung, I killed the task, and all other IE windows closed. Now, I anticipated this "issue", so I copied my text that I had typed prior to this activity. *Boom* All IE windows close...no problem, I've copied the text, right?

Wrong.

Seems Microsoft doesn't think you need the clipboard contents to a window that is no longer open, it clears the buffer. So, all my comments are lost.

I'll summarize in a thought:

*yawn* Nothing like digging up year-old hype. You have no idea the infrastructure necessary to support the AVVID technologies nor do you understand the degree to which the term, "Classroom environment" applies to his little demonstration.

I had more comments, right down to the fact he can't tell an analog phone from a digital one but, alas, my will has been beaten by Microsoft. Oh, one more thing... (edit) You also need to realize that demonstration relies on the magic of 802.3u. Which, is not the "same Ethernet" you rely on at work and home. Its CSMA/CD is based of different communication models. He also conducted a communication over barbed wire...over a FEW FEET.

That is; uninsulated, unshielded. There are several entities who would be very happy to speak to (anyone) who can successfully implement a reasonable sized LAN on barbed wire let us know. I can point you in the right direction if you're interested.

The demo was also using TCP/IP over a set of devices and an infrastructure that was 100% Cisco and 100% holistic, in every sense of the word. Protocols like SNA, Frame Relay, hell...don't laugh, but even Apple Talk are a lot less giving to high quantites of more sensitive to high bit error rates.

Fuck.

This "lost" reply and the edited comments are getting to be quite long and it STILL doesn't reflect my original comments. Fuck me, twice.