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From: baw@terminator.cc.umich.edu (Brian Wolfe)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.sys.cisco
Subject: Cisco AGS+ -> DELNI   via fiber?
Keywords: DELNI Cisco AGS+
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.053258.3706@terminator.cc.umich.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 91 05:32:58 GMT
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I'm looking for an inexpensive way to connect a DELNI based network to
a Cisco router via some existing fiber, here's what's in place now:

                                                        Vax8530
                          AT&T 62.5 micron fiber        |
        Cisco AGS+       ----------------------         DELNI - VAX8700
                                                        |
                                                        Vax8530


The Cisco has standard ethernet 15pin ports as does the DELNI.


(Possibly naive) Questions:

1) Cisco has recommended using Cabletr
on or Synoptics Fiber-Optic Transceivers
   on their end, what do I use on the DELNI side?

2) Is the DELNI a multiport repeater, or multiport transceiver (and what's
   the difference ;-)   )?

3) I noticed that DEC's networking manual advises using a maximum
   of 2 repeaters, which would seem to contradict the 4 repeater rule. Is this
   because a DELNI counts as a repeater?

Thanks in advance for any advice, I will gladly summarize for the net if this
is of interest.

regards,

Brian

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