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From: DBrown@HI-MULTICS.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: question about long haul networking
Message-ID: <1952@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Jul-84 07:38:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.1952
Posted: Fri Jul 13 07:38:00 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Jul-84 06:23:11 EDT
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  Consider a fiber-optics link:  a piece of fibreglass "string" with a
high speed modem at either end.  A few Honeywell sites have these and
the scuttlebut implies that they work well.
  That assumes, mind you, that
  (1) you can run something between the building
  (2) that you don't mind buying instead of leasing from Bell.
  The transfer rate is slightly better than a fast ethernet, but there
is basically only one path per pair of modems...
 --dave