FDDI or 100Mb Ethernet
Matthew Petach
mpetach at netflight.com
Sun Feb 8 21:57:49 UTC 1998
>
> Paul Ferguson <ferguson at cisco.com> writes:
>
> > Okay. Playing my usual devil's advocate role, please tell me what
> > migration path lies beyond FDDI for faster connectivity?
>
> SM FDDI -> SM POS. Problem solved. Reuse your fibre, even.
*cough* Um, hate to have to raise an ugly bugaboo, but reusing
the fibre isn't the problem; it's redesigning the whole network
architecture from multidrop, ring based FDDI, to point-to-point
POS connections.
Or are you going to point out a cheap (~$100,000) SONET switch
that will work as a relatively "drop-in" replacement for already
installed DEC Gigaswitches? If you know of one, let me know, and
I'll order a half dozen. Otherwise, there really isn't any
multi-drop replacement for FDDI at this point.
> Your inventive marketing friend,
> Sean.
Inventive, definitely. Practical, on the other hand...
Matt
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