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Re: Asante 2072
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Peters)
Mon Mar 21 09:22:24 1994
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 14:50 GMT+1
From: Peter Peters <PETERSP@UTWENTE.NL>
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> 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.
We at the university of Twente are planning to use the HUBstacks from
Cabletron, with the ESX-820 switches as bridges between the buildings.
Our buildings house from 37 to 125 students so they could be served
with one stack. We have a total of 2000 rooms in 34 buildings arranged
in 4 separate parts of the campus. We pull fiber from our
computercentre to one central location on campus and fiber from that
central location to every part on campus. From there every building
gets his fiber which is connected to a SEHI-24 wich serves as
manageble part of the stacks. 1 to 4 SEH-24's are added to get to the
desired number of connections. Every building is connected to a
separarate port on the switch, so every building has it's own segment.
We support IP on campus and assign every building a range. The whole
campus is connected to the university backbone (UTnet) via a router.
We also have a HP-UX computer which serves as the main server for the
students, offering news, mail, ftp, gopher etc.
Peter Peter
Networkmanagement
TSO - CIV
University of Twente
