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From: jeffw@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Jeffrey H. West)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: kinetics-phonenet-kinetics
Message-ID: <1990Sep27.031856.29768@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 27 Sep 90 03:18:56 GMT
References: <9009251038.AA01530@sun.cnuce.cnr.it> <2700029E.3D37@intercon.com>
Reply-To: jeffw@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Jeffrey H. West)
Organization: Macro Computer Solutions, Inc. - Wheeling, IL
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In article <2700029E.3D37@intercon.com> kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) writes:
>In article <9009251038.AA01530@sun.cnuce.cnr.it>, capuano@SUN.CNUCE.CNR.IT
>("Vincenzo G. Capuano") writes:
>> Hi,
>> we have two buildings at about half a mile away each other. We would like
>> to connect the two ethernets, using two kinetics and phonenet between them.
>> In this way we could reach 230kbps between the two ethernets.
>
>
>The problem that you will run into is there is an absolute length of the
>PhoneNet cabling.  You would need to talk to Farallon about this though.
>

The length is certainly a consideration!  

There are several ways that your objective can be achieved.  However, without
knowing more information about your network the best suggestion that I can
make is that you look at the line of Shiva products.  I have used the Shiva
TeleBridge (two actually) to connect networks between two cities (only one
FastPath, however).  The distance between telebridges counts as virtually
nothing when going through a high speed data line (ex. T1) and it probably
will be the same effect with modems over normal data line (in lieu of a T1).

Shiva will be able to answer that one for sure.

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