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To: DUMBGRUNT

At least it’ll give your cable company an excuse for poor reception.


4 posted on 03/13/2018 8:46:49 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: bgill; DUMBGRUNT; richardtavor

Years ago, I worked at a cable company on their internet offering. We had periodic, spontaneous reboots of the routers from time to time, with no personnel at that site, no power interruption, just one of them would reboot.

Cisco Systems blamed it on “alpha particle radiation”.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/field-notices/200/fn25994.html

SEU failures are often caused by the following:

Alpha particles emitted by radioactive packaging and wafer processing materials on synchronous random-access memory (SRAM) and dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) products.

Thermal neutron from cosmic radiation of energy less then 15ev.

Terrestrial high energy cosmic particles, neutrons, protons, pions and muons.


11 posted on 03/13/2018 11:46:47 AM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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