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Resisting the Sudden Surge: Ethernet Protection for Exposed Data Lines

From Mouser Electronics, Inc.

Engineers are being asked to connect absolutely everything to a network. The network protocol of choice is Ethernet or one of the myriad variations. Some of these assignments can look great on paper but suffer serious setbacks once realized in the modern world.

The original designers of the Ethernet could not have imagined what we have done with their â baby.â The original intent was to connect various computers together. The data rate was 10 Mbit/sec, which was fast enough for the processors in the computers they were using at the time. The computers were all located in a single room or data center. The cables could be no longer than 10M. The conditions in that data room were controlled so that ESD was a minimal threat and once the computers were wired in, they stayed physically connected for very long periods.

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