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traditional yellow fat stuff starts becoming unwieldy I'm not sure what you're referring to here. The traditional 10BASE5 cable hasn't been used in literally d

traditional yellow fat stuff starts becoming unwieldy I'm not sure what you're referring to here. The traditional 10BASE5 cable hasn't been used in literally decades. There's none of it deployed in modern datacenters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE5 AKA 0.375 inch diameter "frozen yellow garden hose". So standard fiber optic patch cable is the new "traditional"?

walrus01 10y ago
no, I'm talking about the different types of short distance 9/125 fiber patch cables used between servers and top of rack switches, or in large end of row aggregation switch environments and with large-scale patch panels (for 144/288 count cables): http://tiffanycommunication.altervista.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/uniboot-LC-fiber-patch-cable.jpg http://tiffanycommunication.altervista.org/wp-content/upload... and another example of duplex uniboot inside one cable jacket: http://www.fibertronics-store.com/images/1378852143657-2109354257.png http://www.fibertronics-store.com/images/1378852143657-21093... versus zipcord/duplex fiber which has a figure-8 shape, and the total jacket diameter is fatter in the range of 2.2 to 3mm: http://www.pctstore.com/v/vspfiles/photos/SCASCADP30S10-5.jpg http://www.pctstore.com/v/vspfiles/photos/SCASCADP30S10-5.jp... ignore the SC or LC connectors, the difference is the cable diameter itself. Figure-8 shaped duplex two strand fiber cables that are fatter and occupy more space than a single circular jacket that contains two strands and a single boot connector. This matters for cable management when you're dealing with a switch that might have 4 x 48-port 10Gbe SFP+ linecards in it, all heavily populated. All of the cables coming off the switch in a neatly organized way and going vertically up some fiber cable management to a patch panel.

walrus01 10y ago

no, I'm talking about the different types of short distance 9/125 fiber patch cables used between servers and top of rack switches, or in large end of row aggregation switch environments and with large-scale patch panels (for 144/288 count cables): http://tiffanycommunication.altervista.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/uniboot-LC-fiber-patch-cable.jpg http://tiffanycommunication.altervista.org/wp-content/upload... and another example of duplex uniboot inside one cable jacket: http://www.fibertronics-store.com/images/1378852143657-2109354257.png http://www.fibertronics-store.com/images/1378852143657-21093... versus zipcord/duplex fiber which has a figure-8 shape, and the total jacket diameter is fatter in the range of 2.2 to 3mm: http://www.pctstore.com/v/vspfiles/photos/SCASCADP30S10-5.jpg http://www.pctstore.com/v/vspfiles/photos/SCASCADP30S10-5.jp... ignore the SC or LC connectors, the difference is the cable diameter itself. Figure-8 shaped duplex two strand fiber cables that are fatter and occupy more space than a single circular jacket that contains two strands and a single boot connector. This matters for cable management when you're dealing with a switch that might have 4 x 48-port 10Gbe SFP+ linecards in it, all heavily populated. All of the cables coming off the switch in a neatly organized way and going vertically up some fiber cable management to a patch panel.