Did you know that the maximum length of a conventional ethernet cable is merely 100 meters? If you did not, now you do. But then the question remains: isn't 100 meters long enough already?

It is not often tools use by us, our clients, internet service providers, network adminitrators and etc can be described as a thing of beauty. Often we stare at indutrial gray casings of media converters, Ethernet extenders or alumium and steel DSLAM chassis, with blinky LED lights (if there are any) and that is the best we can hope in terms of entertainment when the lights blink so fast enough. For a change this week instead of lauding more media converters, DSLAMs, wireless access points of Ether extenders we present you Ethernet fashion. On the lighter side here we see the creative use of Ethernet cables and what appear to  be zip ties, both tools that every network admin finds in his trusty work kit and through the creative use by these students from Panotificia Bolivariana University have managed to take something largely colorless and trendless into a neo avant garde look that screams of new Renaissance, or whatever that means.

Our engineers have gathered and we have put out an educated guess that the Ethernet cable used in the first pic should be able to be deployed at least 50,000 feet at the very least yet the manner of how it is piled up could create serious cross talk interference even though the rubber shielding seems thick hence most Ethernet extenders or Ethernet Switches, fiber media converter or wireless access point connected with these Ethernet cables, will likely see some serious packet losses with an SNR of 5 billion. Furthermore the temperatures evoked by the very hot "rack" that this cable is deployed on will likely lead to cataclysmic data failture as "hot" is very very bad for network equipment. Be that as it may, solving and unraveling a network issue like this has never been more fun or sexy we at Versa and we hope all the rest of you are up and able to meet that challenge.

via [Gizmodo]

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