Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: high speed networking between buildings Message-ID: <1989Sep20.155009.3284@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <4574@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> <337@ai.etl.army.mil> <2314@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 89 15:50:09 GMT In article <2314@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> chimiak@umbc3.umbc.edu.UMBC.EDU (Mr. William J. Chimiak (MMA)) writes: >The latest issue of EDN talks of broadband networking with FDDI. In it, >they predict a $500/node cost as economies of scale come into play. Before getting too excited about this, compare with the predictions some years ago about how the price of Ethernet was going to drop as the same economies of scale got going. It has dropped... but not nearly as much as predicted. A cautious man would probably predict that FDDI prices will fall very gradually, not suddenly and massively. For the immediate future, it's likely to remain a "premium" networking technology, used only where Ethernet is not good enough. That's going to limit those "economies of scale" quite a bit. -- "Where is D.D. Harriman now, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology when we really *need* him?" | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu