What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes)

Thu Aug 30 04:01:43 UTC 2001

|> From: Daniel Senie [mailto:dts at senie.com]
|> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 8:25 PM
|> 
|> At 11:10 PM 8/29/01, Vadim Antonov wrote:
|> 
|> >On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Andrew Partan wrote:
|> >
|> > > I have proposed to various router vendors the 
|> possibility of giving
|> > > them a chilled water feed instead of lots of cool air.  At the
|> > > moment they seem to not need it, but I would not be surprized to
|> > > find something like this needed at some point.
|> >
|> >Err. Water and electricvity make a dangerous mix.
|> 
|> And this was not a problem in IBM Mainframe computers because?
|> 
|> I'm not registering an opinion one way or the other at this point on 
|> whether routers should consider other forms of cooling, but 
|> using water or 
|> other liquids to cool electronics is not a new concept. Properly 
|> engineered, there is no particular danger.

No particular danger, except what it does to the operational budget.