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1.4mm Thick Gigabit Ethernet Cable
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.
I'm not sure if it's out yet or not, but Flatwire has talked about this at least a year ago.
If the pics are accurate, and you can really shut the window (sorry I don't read Japanese), then this is some cool stuff. I can see it being used to hide cabling and make it less obtrusive.
Other than that, they had better be selling it for close to normal cable prices, or I can't think of anyone who would buy very much of it.
"We don't know what we are doing, but we are doing it very carefully,..." Wherry, R.J. Personnel Psychology (1995)
the whole point of making such announcement would be that you would have solved that shielding problem.
the real novelty of this thing(if you watch the pics) is that you can run it through thin places(like windowstills.. no need to bore a hole to the wall).
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
The National Electrical Code requires that wiring in a plenum has a special teflon cladding that won't burn
PVC itself is fairly fire retardant, but it releases Hydrogen Chloride when heat is applied to it. Plenum rated cable burns, but it doesn't release HCl when it does so, and thus is required to be used in environments where air will be circulated.