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From: urbach@ntmtv.UUCP (Steve Urbach)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Twisted pair (StarLan) to ThinNet
Message-ID: <1017@ntmtv.UUCP>
Date: 6 Apr 90 16:40:33 GMT
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From article <405@ohsuhcx.ohsu.edu>, by bj@ohsuhcx.ohsu.edu (Bill Jackson):
> Has anyone found a good way to bring ThinNet into a twisted pair (StarLan)
> network?  I have a campus network based on StarLan components from ...

We have a Centrecom 2900 Smart Brige box from Allied Telisis that briges
and traffic routes Thick Ether/Starlan  to another Thick Ether/Starlan.
Their catalog shows a model 2920 which has Thin/Thick/Starlan to
Thin/Thick/Starlan.  BTW both these boxes are made by RETIX.  BlackBox
shows a Thick/Thin version of this package.  Price  about $2-3K depending
on version and label.
If you want to talk to their sales critter:
Allied Telesis
Mountain View, Ca
(415) 964-2771

> Is the problem a lack of a twisted pair standard?  The Synoptics stuff was all
> billed for their LatticeNet stuff - is this not the same as StarLan? 

NO definately not the same stuff.  STARLAN is 1BASE5 and other is 10BASExx
					      ^                   ^^
First of all there needs to be speed (frequency) conversion. Standards
are evolving, but these arn't the same beasts.
BTW if you keep growing nodes on each of the networks (types), be sure
that your backbone network has the capacity for the bridge traffic.

> William Jackson               University Systems & Computing, Gaines Hall #113

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