This is particularly important when connecting buildings or building wings that may have different grounding bars. You don't want your equipment to be the only conductor between the two different grounds.
--Ted On 11/29/2010 10:47 AM, da...@lang.hm wrote: > 4) switch isolation > > If you have bad power the fact that you don't have a conductor between > switches can make things more reliable (eliminating ground loops). this > problem is more likely with longer distances. > > If you are setting up High Availability with two switches and different > servers connected into each switch, having a fiber connection between > switches means that no matter what happens inside one switch, it cannot > send excessive voltage to the other switch via the connecting cable. > > David Lang > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
