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From: steveg@hammer.UUCP (Steve Glaser)
Newsgroups: net.lan
Subject: Re: Intelink and other ether tranceiver multiplexers
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Date: Tue, 26-Jun-84 22:53:58 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 26 22:53:58 1984
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Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
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Another big win with DELNI like boxes is that you don't need to have
2.5 meters of coax "frontage" to install a transciever (they are
supposed to be on 2.5 meter intervals along the ethernet coax).

Minimizing "wasted" cable helps when your network is close to max
length (as are many of ours unless we bought some repeaters).  Besides,
what do you do with all the exceee cable?  It doesn't bend easily so
it's kinda hard to hide.

We also had troubles with some folks transcievers not talking to some
folks ethernet chip sets.  The newer transcievers usually don't have
the problem, but putting a DELNI in there made it go away for those
that did (DEC version - I don't know about other vendor's equivalents).

	Steve Glaser
	tektronix!steveg
	steveg.tektronix@csnet-relay