Info on MAE-EAST

Wed Jan 15 15:21:08 UTC 1997

On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Stephen Balbach wrote:

> There are lots of 7513's so I doubt a 7507 would be a problem - the only 
> restriction on equipment is no computers on the MAE EAST LAN for security 
> reasons. Given the ability to bridge MAE EAST I'm not sure how that can be 
> enforced. And Netscape has some mighty big SGI's promintently displayed as 
> you walk in.

	Last I'd heard, Netscape's boxen were plugged into a router (not
sure whose these days.)  There's also somebody there with an OS/2 machine,
but I have no idea who or why, or where it's plugged in. 

> Oh and another restrictiuon should you ever need it -- to run a $5 piece
> of ethernet cable 10' from one rack to another (assuming the two racks
> are diffrent companies eg. a cross connect) is $2000/month. 

	Wow.  I knew it was gonna be a lot, but that's a /whole/ lot. 

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