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Networking in Extreme Conditions?

Posted by Cliff on from the this-article-will-self-destruct-in-5-seconds dept.

222 asks: "Mission: Create an intermediate distribution frame. Difficulty: A few feet away, industrial equipment will be generating roughly 2000 degree heat. Bonus: Keep the network switches inside the IDF from melting. Does anyone have experience in making IT work in such extreme conditions? Is there an enclosure in existence that can handle this type of abuse? This is essentially what I've been asked to accomplish, and now I'm asking my fellow readers for help: Can it be done?"

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  1. hmm by mastershake_phd · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Your going to need more than just an insulated box. I cant think of any other way to do this than a water cooled box. ie a box with some pipes in the walls then you put in your hardware. Not sure refrigeration would even work in these conditions.

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  2. Easy by DavidHOzAu · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ask an avionics engineer.

  3. Easy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    You were misled.

    No one is asking you to do what you think they are asking you to do.

    Tell us what the industrial equipment is and we'll tell you if it will actually affect network equipment a few feet away.

    For example, I have installed networked data acquisition systems within feet of plasma torches that reach over 10000K, no special considerations with regard to heat were required at all.

    Tell us what the equipment is and we'll tell you if you actually have a problem or not.

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  4. Re:I second endorse the above comment. by Hemogoblin · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My Grandpa used to run his own refridgeration engineering company. He told me a story about one job of his he did for a meat-packing plant. Meat needs to be hung in a refridgerated environment for a certain length of time. After installing the new refridgeration system for the room, a few weeks later he received a phonecall. Apparently the system "wasn't working right" and he'd better come and fix it. It turns out a supervisor had cut a damn huge hole in the wall and was using the cold air to cool off the workers on the assembly line.

    Moral of the story, unless you set up the system yourself, you probably don't know how it works and shouldn't fuck with it.