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The tale of the missing cables
October 26, 2006
At the recent Autotstcon show, the capabilities of LXI turned a potential disaster into a non-event. The LXI Consortium had purchased 150 Cat-5 cables as give-aways at the consortium’s booth. But when the box containing the cables was retrieved from storage, the cables were missing; in their place were a child’s Disney paint set and a small coffee maker. Apparently, an enterprising person had decided to trade us for the cables.
The Consortium turned the loss into a demonstration of one of LXI’s primary advantages--the ease of connectivity using standard, off-the-shelf Ethernet cables. Booth personnel contacted a local company and replaced the cables in less than a day. Had 150 GPIB cables been stolen, they could not have been them replaced locally in less than a day, thereby illustrating another advantage of LXI over GPIB.--Rob Purser, The MathWorks, LXI Technical Committee Co-Chair
Posted by Rick Nelson on October 26, 2006 | Comments (1)
