1.4mm Thick Gigabit Ethernet Cable

TheIonix writes "Flat network cables aren't anything new, but I'm pretty sure ones like this are. Japanese accessory king Elecom today announced the "LD-VAPF/SV05" network cabling, coming in at 1.4mm thick." Also here's their press release if you can read Japanese.

All fine and good

[PDA_Boy]

But surely a large file will not fit through such a small cable? You'd need to hammer them down first, which is an unwanted chore. Easier than making them small enough to transmit wirelessly, I guess.

Re:All fine and good

[slimak]

its pretty easy to just keep ziping the files over and over until the result gets small enough -- even for large files (CD image or something) 5 times is generally enough for my needs.

Re:All fine and good

[Anonymous Coward]

But surely a large file will not fit through such a small cable?

I can't believe you're so naive! Ever heard of file compression?

Translation of press release

[sczimme]

"We are disrespectful to cable of girth. Can you see that we are serious? Join me or die. Can you do any less? For special lucky data, use Elecom LD-VAPF/SV05 network cabling."

Re:All fine and good

[dances with elks]

the ones should be ok, they're quite thin but I'm just not sure about the zeros

Re:All fine and good

[PDA_Boy]

Oh... compression... like those things for flattening roads... clever!

Wow!

[RicochetRita]

Now I'll be able to cram even more cables between rack'd components! Oh happy day!

R3

Re:Translated Page

[lpangelrob2]

The translation was ?????? and didn't really tell me more than I could've figured ??????, but I do have to say that the picture of the cable in the window was ?????? cool... although I'm not sure what happens to ?????? when you start running cat-5 cable outside. Could I use it to theoretically hook up a weather station outside to my ?????? inside?

Thick ethernet?

[gerardlt]

Did anyone else read the subject and think "Thick Ethernet? What do we want to bring that back for?"

Re: Coolness...

[OldeTimeGeek]

You won't have to worry about the dust. You can't use this anyway.

The National Electrical Code requires that wiring in a plenum has a special teflon cladding that won't burn and fill the ducts with smoke in the case of a fire. I didn't see this mentioned in the article...

Re:The most important problem...

[AviLazar]

Luckily for you, then, that we can do research on more then one field/topic at any given point and time so we have multiple technologies and choices.

Re:Translated Page

[wcrowe]

"All your 1000Base-T are belong to us."

Big in Japan

[rastakid]

Ohhh, you're begin in Japan.. tonight! Big in Japan!

Re:Translated Page

[artemis67]

1) Japanese web page
2) Google translator
3) ??????
4) Profit!

Re:All fine and good

[corngrower]

Just thread the wire through the zeros and slide them along the outside of the wire. They can't fall off. That's what I've been doing for some time now.