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

Thu Aug 30 03:24:33 UTC 2001

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.
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