Thicknet/10base5 Test Segment: The Cable is In!

[Grant Taylor]

On 06/26/2018 10:31 AM, Mark J. Blair via cctalk wrote:
> What does non-intrusive mean in this context? I thought that thick 
> ethernet taps always required drilling a hole in the cable.

There are taps that screw onto the N connectors.  Thus you have to 
intrusively disconnect segments, to insert the (so called) tap.

Conversely, you can drill / clamp / tap onto live segments in a 
non-intrusive manner.

My assumption was that "tap" comes from the second form.  I always 
thought there was a different name for the first form.  But I believe 
they were less common, hence fall under the "tap" term which is more 
popular.



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