[522] in Resnet-Forum
Intelligent hubs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Bates, McGill Business Operat)
Tue Feb 28 15:33:49 1995
From: "John Bates, McGill Business Operations" <JOHNB@UBO.Lan.McGill.CA>
To: Resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 15:04:28 EST5EDT
We are contemplating wiring our residence halls, beginning with a
pilot this summer. Our Computing Centre Director is proposing that
we use intelligent hubs to link a NIC in a student's PC or Mac to the
backbone, rather than building LANs and connecting through them.
He believes that this will reduce costs, will reduce LAN and shared
application software management problems (there won't be any) and
improve security at the individual pillow.
Most of the discussions I have seen (and understood) on resnet have
had to do with conventional LAN solutions. Has anyone gone the
intelligent hub route or have comments on it?
Thanks for your input.
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John Bates
Director, Business Operations, McGill University
3641 University, MONTREAL, Que CANADA
tel: (514) 398-4015 fax: (514) 398-7170
