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From: skip@gatech.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lan
Subject: followup to AT&T LAN
Message-ID: <1973@gatech.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Nov-83 20:22:17 EST
Article-I.D.: gatech.1973
Posted: Tue Nov  8 20:22:17 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 10-Nov-83 01:05:31 EST
Organization: Georgia Tech School of ICS, Atlanta
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Judging from a question or two that I've gotten, let me clear up one
possibly misleading point about the AT&T LAN (the Wide-band Premise
Network).  The bus is less than a meter long and is basicly the backplane
that the interface boards plug into.  I suspect that it is, in fact, less
than 19 inches long so that it will fit comfortably in a 19 inch rack.
Overall, the LAN looks like a star configuration, but except for the
central clock and address translator, there is no single point of failure.
Of course, those aren't minor exceptions....

-- skip addison {emory,akgua,allegra,rlgvax}!gatech!skip