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For similar reason (elimination of ground loop) optical digital output from enhanced empegs is preferable for coaxial.

I think I am having a very not good day (or week)! When I read...

That is, you could end up with a potential difference between the buildings which is enough to fry the network gear. This would be even worse if you had a lightning strike nearby.

I thought he was saying that you could get a potential difference *with* fiber, and that you might have to consider that. Thus my "Wow, Huh?" edit: instead of seeing that Muzza was answering the original question "why did they run fiber?", although I will say the times I did this it was distance, not lightning, that led me to it. So, while I think I remain convinced that glass is nonconductive, I gotta read others' posts more carefully.

This will teach me to try to goof off at work -- read more carefully... focus....focus!

I need to go back to what I know about -- Bibles and cysts!


Edited by jimhogan (03/02/2005 23:56)
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