How about killing power to a standard switch?

Dunno how to expand that for the bonus points :)

Cheers, Bob

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014, at 03:50 PM, Josh Koffman wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I want to make a network switch. No...it's not what you think. I want
> to be able to physically interrupt a gigabit network connection. Bonus
> points for an A/B instead of just an on/off. I'm doing this right now
> by physically connecting and disconnecting cables, but it would be
> nice to be able to do this remotely and/or automatically.
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> If this wasn't a high speed data signal, I'd just use something like
> relays or some kind of semiconductor switch. However, I'm not sure
> what sort of complications I'll run into if I try that on this signal.
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> Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
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> I won't have much time to respond for the next day or two, but I
> wanted to give everyone time to think! I will do my best to pop in and
> out though as I'll be traveling, internet might be scarce.
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> Thanks!
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> Josh

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