[15135] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FDDI or 100Mb Ethernet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Petach)
Sun Feb 8 17:11:03 1998
From: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
To: smd@clock.org (Sean M. Doran)
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 13:57:49 -0800 (PST)
Cc: ferguson@cisco.com, dean@av8.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <ytvhupdb25.fsf@cesium.clock.org> from "Sean M. Doran" at Feb 8, 98 04:46:42 pm
>
> Paul Ferguson <ferguson@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
