Bill,

On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:05:25 -0700, William "Chops" Westfield wrote:

> > std 110 outlet at each seat would help a lot.
> >
> Doesn't scale very well.  A modern airliner has a couple hundred
> seats...

Actually the latest ones are pushing 500!

> I got asked about some issues on the
> remote controlled power supply for our new ethernet switch.
> 8700 watts.  Presumably that's about 20W each for several hundred
> ethernet ports (PoE), plus a thousand watts or so for the switch
> itself.  Sigh.

Why on Earth would an ethernet switch need a kilowatt?  Is it actually running hundreds of ports in one device?

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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