At 01:32 PM 3/11/2012, you wrote:

> > In a previous life, I did Ethernet physical layer design/testing on
> > servers for a major computer manufacurer (rhymes with "Hell").  Without
> > fail, the first pass of Ethernet designs done would not pass the IEEE
> > 802.3 physical layer specifications, *unless* they used an integrated
> > magnetics.  Return loss, signal integrity, or Hipot- doing the design
> > right (for interoperability) is quite hard.
> >
>How many people are there who both care about it being "right" and are
>making
>small enough volumes that the extra design effort is sigificant?

As more than one Asian manager has said one way or another, "That costs
another 5 cents a unit. I ship 50,000 units a month, with that kind of mone=
y
I can hire another engineer" (and he probably still almost can..).

Best regards,

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