Re: what about 48 bits?

[Stefan Bethke <stb () lassitu de>]

Am 07.04.2010 um 17:47 schrieb Joe Greco:

> There were several proprietary solutions to the 10base2 conundrum,
> I can't remember the name of the one I was most familiar with, but it
> eliminated all that stuff by using a molded cable that had a BNC on
> one end, contained dual RG cables inside a heavy jacket, and a funky
> molded plug on the end.

One system popular in Germany at the time used a modified German phone plug ("TAE"), and the resulting system was 
marketed as "EAD" or Ethernet Anschluss Dose.  The coax was way too heavy and stiff for the small plug, and would 
regularly unseat the connector.  Since the phone plug was never designed to have a defined impedance, any run longer 
than about 50 meters for the segment was hit and miss.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAD-socket


Stefan

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