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From: folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Fastest LANs available?
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Date: 15 Nov 90 19:30:36 GMT
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Could someone please e-mail me information regarding what currently-available
LANs have the highest effective throughput rate? (I would really like something
on the order of 100Mbyte/sec.)

For a paper I am doing, I am proposing an architecture for vision processing.
Many processors will want access to digital video data from a couple of
CCDs, and I calculate that a single-bus (or ring) design would require about
100Mbyte/sec of effective throughput. Are there any LANs that can do this?
Especially in a collision-free manner? Also, the LAN should be rugged and
compact, and should not require bulky interfaces (to fit into a vehicle).

(If I cannot find what I want off-the-shelf, then we have to look at other
architectures, such as multiple-bus...)

Thank you.
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Wayne Folta          (folta@cs.umd.edu  128.8.128.8)