Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:04:19 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: efinley.lists@gmail.com Cc: dkelly@hiwaay.net, FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5000' ethernet? Message-ID: <4a618203.bzziFY80xJl2pRP3%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <54e63c320907171229o3e29d0ffo9904bc3d321e01be@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090715194718.GA16401@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <4a602cad.8BLh4Iukknk6sHl6%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <54e63c320907171229o3e29d0ffo9904bc3d321e01be@mail.gmail.com>
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Elliot Finley <efinley.lists@gmail.com> wrote: > A T1 can only run about 600 feet. Yes, that's right, 600 feet. > When people talk about T1s running long distances, the reference > to 'T1' is only the signalling at the end. In the middle, that > "T1" will be carried by other methods such as SONET over fiber for > very long distances. For the "last mile" it will be carried on > HDSL or similar technology. Or if it's a fairly long copper path, > it can be carried on T-carrier. I suspect T-carrier is probably the technology I'm thinking of, which would have been sufficient to reach from "practically anywhere" to a telco switching center, even back in the mid-1970's when a "T1" was considered blazingly fast (and neither fiber nor HDSL was at all widely used, if they even existed).
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