[364] in Resnet-Forum
Re: Port per Pillow
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Albert Lunde)
Wed Sep 21 10:07:24 1994
To: dmandell@saintmarys.edu (Dan Mandell)
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 00:45:16 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.90.940920225712.17767O-100000@jade.saintmarys.edu> from "Dan Mandell" at Sep 20, 94 11:12:56 pm
Reply-To: Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde)
From: Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde)
>
> Our planning task force is just about to tackle the issue of Dormitory
> Computing. But given the Cost of networking the Dorms, and the
> Senior Officer's request that we avoid recabling for 10-20 years
[...]
Could you have anticipated the needs of today in 1984 or 1974?
If you could, could you have afforded to prepare for them then?
We did have some extra twisted pairs put in when we last rewired
our phone system, some years back, but I think there are limits
to foresight. Some old runs of video coaxial cable turned out to
be useless for data.
It might make sense to ask not how much excess capacity you will
_need_ in ten or twenty years, but how much you can afford to
install with today's technology.
I don't know how much it costs to, say, install unused fiber-optic
cable. It might make as much sense to put in bigger cable trays and
conduits, and wiring closets and run the media later. (One of
our "mistakes" in the last rewiring was to save money by burying
cable in trenches.)
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Albert Lunde Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu
