Hi, what does it actually mean to have a 100Mb link as opposed to a 1000Mb link and what difference does it make to the transfer of Data.
A cross-connection is a direct arrangement of piping that allows the potable (safe. drinking) water pipe to be connected to a pipe supply that contains a. contaminant or pollutant. An example of a cross-connection is a common garden. hose attached to your home outside faucet with the hose outlet end lying in a. pool or inserted into a sewer clean out. Other examples include a garden hose. inserted in a car's radiator for flushing that contains anti-freeze or a hose.
A cross-connect is any connection between facilities provided as separate units by the datacenter. In other words, if you rent a cage, you can run cables betweeen your various racks and they are not really considered cross connects. But typically a user facility is a rack. Consider the uplink to a network provider. The line that runs from you to the telco's rack is a cross-connect. Any other between-rack cable run falls in this category. Even if the datacenter is bundling network access, it's still a cross-connect. (It's also typical to have a meet-me room that is the center of all the cross-connects, it's a patch-panel room or cage.)