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Re: Twinax trivia check (was Re: Is there such a thing as a 10GBase-T SFP+ transciever)


From: joel jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 12:27:58 -0800

On 2/2/14, 7:30 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote:
On 2/1/2014 10:40 PM, Jima wrote:
  +1.  Cisco calls them Twinax, HP calls them DACs.  I don't know what
anyone else calls them as it hasn't come up in conversation for me.

I thought "Twinax" was an IBMish MILSPEC term.

twinax could refer to a specific technology  or to the presence of dual
inner conductors e.g. in contrast to coax or triax.



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