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Re: cross connect reliability

  • From: Jon Lewis
  • Date: Thu Sep 17 19:31:17 2009

It's just not as interesting or hard to troubleshoot as a poorly made patch cable that's had one conductor go open, only goes open when the wire is tugged a certain direction, nicked wires shorting, a switch port with its RX side burned out, an RJ45 plug who's mistreated tab no longer works, and though it looks inserted in the port, it's really just kind of hanging there not making full/good contact, etc.

I would hope in any data center, "stealing pairs" doesn't happen as much as any of the above or taking pairs the tech genuinely thought were dead.

On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Mike Lieman wrote:

Because no-one is stealing pairs anymore?

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Jon Lewis <jlewis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Not really.  That's all too easy to diagnose and fix.  Poorly terminated
and or mistreated cabling is far more likely.  I wrote a long post about all
the crap termination and poor treatment I've seen...but canceled the
message.

On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Mike Lieman wrote:

We have a winner!

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Marshall Eubanks <tme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:


Or until someone pulls out the wrong cable (which has happened to me).

Regards
Marshall


~Seth









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