Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!rwthinf!forst!heibe From: heibe@forst.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Bernd Heinrichs) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Ethernet with higher data rates Message-ID: Date: 7 May 91 07:45:51 GMT Sender: news@rwthinf.UUCP Distribution: comp Lines: 21 Perhaps this is a nonsense idea. But I think in some environments it would make sense to use the existing Ethernet installations running with higher data rates, e.g. up to 100 Mbit/s, instead of the expensive FDDI. My problem is, that I do not know, if it is physically possible to run 50- or 75-ohm coaxial cable at such high data rates. Of course the cable length must be shortened and the minimum packet length has to exceed 64 bytes. I would be very pleased when some people can tell me, such data rates are possible or not. Bernd Heinrichs Technical University of Aachen Lehrstuhl fuer Informatik IV Ahornstr. 55 D-5100 Aachen, Germany Tel.: + 49 241 / 80-21410 Fax.: + 49 241 / 80-21410 email: heibe@informatik.rwth-aachen.de -- ______________________________________________ Bernd Heinrichs Lehrstuhl fuer Informatik IV RWTH Aachen D-5100 Aachen Germany