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From: kwe@buit13.bu.edu (Kent England)
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Subject: Re: Twisted Pair Ethernet Concentrators
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Date: 7 Sep 90 12:45:39 GMT
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In article <10898@uswat.UUCP> 
matthews@uswat.uswest.com (John Matthews) writes:
>
>A group of us at US West Advanced Technologies are currently evaluating
>twisted pair ethernet concentrators.  What we would like to know is
>what vendors do you know of that have the following features?  ...

	I estimate that the computational power required to fulfill
your wish list would be roughly that of a midrange mini or LAN server.

	LAN hardware should be a little simpler than what you are
thinking, in my opinion.  Keep the complexity in the end systems and
intermediate systems.  That idea is the essence of the LAN paradigm
over earlier models of networking.

	Why don't you substitute RS-232 ports for the Ethernet and
LocalTalk ports and call it timesharing?  :-)

	--Kent