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Re: Asante 2072
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Technical Services)
Mon Mar 21 10:30:40 1994
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 10:03:09 -0500
Reply-To: Mark.I.Berman@williams.edu
From: Mark.I.Berman@williams.edu (Technical Services)
To: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
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> From: SMTP%"roy@mchip00.med.nyu.edu" 21-MAR-1994 07:17:32.08
> To: mberman
> CC:
> Subj: Asante 2072
>
> 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.
I hate to side with your MIS folks (well, not really) but they may have good
reasons for wanting to use the vendor they specify. If they are the folks
responsible for maintaining the network as a whole, they may be using network
management software from the hub vendor which accesses management features of
the hub equipment that may be unavailable from Asante. Here at Williams we are
standardized on Cabletron equipment and the fact that our network is all
Cabletron hubs makes management easier. Specifically its easier to localize
problems and fix them. If you go with a vendor other than what your network
maintainers recommend, you may regret it in the future.
- Mark
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Mark Berman Mark.Berman@Williams.EDU
Director, Technical Services
Williams College, Ctr. for Computing
Williamstown, MA. USA 01267 (413) 597-2092
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