[191] in Resnet-Forum
Asante 2072
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy Smith)
Mon Mar 21 07:19:13 1994
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 94 06:59:23 -0500
From: roy@mchip00.med.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
To: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
We're on the verge of picking hubs for our first dorm wiring project. I
recently got an announcement (I expect many of you got the same one) from
Asante for their 2072 hub which looks like it has the features we need at
a good price. Our MIS department is balking at the idea, prefering
another vendor's much more expensive hubs. I've got a couple of days
to try and convince them otherwise before purchase orders are cut.
Has anybody used the 2072 in a production network? Were you happy with it?
Any problems? Would you buy one again? Not?
If it matters, our plan is to run fiber into the building and vertically.
Every few floors, there will be a large 10baseT hub cluster serving a
couple of floors (3 clusters all together, each one serving one IP subnet
(8-bits worth) and one AppleTalk phase-II network. Other protocols in
use on the campus (DECNet, IPX, etc) will be blocked at the cisco router
which feed the fiber runs into the building.
