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1.4mm Thick Gigabit Ethernet Cable

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the only-geeks-care-about-this-crap dept.

TheIonix writes "Flat network cables aren't anything new, but I'm pretty sure ones like this are. Japanese accessory king Elecom today announced the "LD-VAPF/SV05" network cabling, coming in at 1.4mm thick." Also here's their press release if you can read Japanese.

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  1. All fine and good by PDA_Boy · · Score: 5, Funny

    But surely a large file will not fit through such a small cable? You'd need to hammer them down first, which is an unwanted chore. Easier than making them small enough to transmit wirelessly, I guess.

    1. Re:All fine and good by slimak · · Score: 3, Funny

      its pretty easy to just keep ziping the files over and over until the result gets small enough -- even for large files (CD image or something) 5 times is generally enough for my needs.

    2. Re:All fine and good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      But surely a large file will not fit through such a small cable?

      I can't believe you're so naive! Ever heard of file compression?

    3. Re:All fine and good by dances+with+elks · · Score: 5, Funny

      the ones should be ok, they're quite thin but I'm just not sure about the zeros

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    4. Re:All fine and good by PDA_Boy · · Score: 1, Funny

      Oh... compression... like those things for flattening roads... clever!

    5. Re:All fine and good by corngrower · · Score: 4, Funny

      Just thread the wire through the zeros and slide them along the outside of the wire. They can't fall off. That's what I've been doing for some time now.

  2. Translation of press release by sczimme · · Score: 5, Funny


    "We are disrespectful to cable of girth. Can you see that we are serious? Join me or die. Can you do any less? For special lucky data, use Elecom LD-VAPF/SV05 network cabling."

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  3. Wow! by RicochetRita · · Score: 4, Funny
    Now I'll be able to cram even more cables between rack'd components! Oh happy day!

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  4. Re:Translated Page by lpangelrob2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    The translation was ?????? and didn't really tell me more than I could've figured ??????, but I do have to say that the picture of the cable in the window was ?????? cool... although I'm not sure what happens to ?????? when you start running cat-5 cable outside. Could I use it to theoretically hook up a weather station outside to my ?????? inside?

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  5. Thick ethernet? by gerardlt · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did anyone else read the subject and think "Thick Ethernet? What do we want to bring that back for?"

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  6. Re: Coolness... by OldeTimeGeek · · Score: 3, Funny
    You won't have to worry about the dust. You can't use this anyway.

    The National Electrical Code requires that wiring in a plenum has a special teflon cladding that won't burn and fill the ducts with smoke in the case of a fire. I didn't see this mentioned in the article...

  7. Re:The most important problem... by AviLazar · · Score: 2, Funny

    Luckily for you, then, that we can do research on more then one field/topic at any given point and time so we have multiple technologies and choices.

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  8. Re:Translated Page by wcrowe · · Score: 3, Funny

    "All your 1000Base-T are belong to us."

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  9. Big in Japan by rastakid · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ohhh, you're begin in Japan.. tonight! Big in Japan!

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  10. Re:Translated Page by artemis67 · · Score: 2, Funny

    1) Japanese web page
    2) Google translator
    3) ??????
    4) Profit!