North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:00:53 -0400 Warren Kumari <[email protected]> wrote: > > There was also an issue where one of the large manufacturers of > (binary) CAMs received a batch of polyimide that was contaminated > with an alpa-emitter (for some reason thorium oxide springs to mind) > and their quality control didn't catch it... As far as I know the > problem was identified before any products with the CAMs were > shipped, but I had an order held up while the vendor tried to source > alternate parts... Contamination by alpha emitters was a major problem some years ago. Manufacturers had to change their formulations to avoid the problem. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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