[ale] OT: GigE Copper specs

[Chris Ricker]

On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 griffisb at bellsouth.net wrote:

> The group had wired all the desktop jacks EIA568B and the patchpanel punchdowns 
> 568A. This was Saturday AM we finally diagnosed it, with a monday morning live 
> date. I grabbed a 110 punchdown tool and re-terminated all the punchdowns on 
> the patch panel. That was my first time using a punchdown tool, and probably my 
> last. I didn't give the cabling company good references, and don't recommend 
> "remote controlling" projects. You have to be able verify what's going on long 
> before a live data. 

We had exactly the same thing happen a couple of months ago down in Florida.
I wonder just how commonplace that sort of confusion is, given the two
different standards?

later,
chris