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From: VaxHeadroom@cup.portal.com (Joe William Walko)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Comparing 10base-T concentrators
Message-ID: <34686@cup.portal.com>
Date: 9 Oct 90 22:01:06 GMT
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Just today we received a Hewlett Packard Ethertwist Hub Plus, which
provides 12 twisted-pair links, plus 1 AUI connector, plus 1 ThinNet
connector.  So far I'm fairly pleased with the product.  It went in
without a hitch.  This hub includes a serial RS232 port which provides
basic statistics on each of the 14 links.  This HP hub appears to
be superior to the Networth Ethernext hubs we've used previously.
If you get the 'plus' version, which we did, then you can monitor
and control it remotely using HP's OPenview Hub Manager software,
which runs on 
MS Windows.

The HP hub is completely self-contained, and requires no additional 
chassis, power supply, etc.  Street price for the 'plus' version is
about $1600, the non-plus version is a couple hundred less.