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From: aaron@dragoon.telcom.arizona.edu (Aaron Leonard)
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Subject: Re: Sun's FDDI
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Date: 5 Jun 90 19:57:46 GMT
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>    Suppose I have 2 Sun 4/330 machines on their
>    own Ethernet.  I open a socket between the
>    machines and shove about 1MB of data over it.  
>    This takes N seconds.
>    ...
>    Besides FDDI, what are my other options for 
>    moving that 1MB as fast as possible?

You might try out Ultra Technologies (ultra.com).  
They make an (up to) 1Gb network product called
UltraNet.  They claim 32Mbps socket-to-socket
throughput between VME Suns.  (They get 500Mbps
socket-to-socket between Crays!) (_Unix Review_,
April 1990.)

I haven't experienced their products personally, 
but these guys seem sharp.