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From: dorl@uwmacc.UUCP (Michael Dorl)
Newsgroups: net.lan
Subject: DEC Broadband plans
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Date: Thu, 25-Oct-84 12:33:32 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 25 12:33:32 1984
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The Oct 22, 1984 'Communications Week' contained a front page
article titled 'DEC Set to Add Broadband LANs Based on Equipment
from Sytek'.  Two quotes are of interest..

    'DEC will begin sales and installation next year of the
     LocalNet/20 product line to its existing customer base,
     primarily targeting terminal to host as well as host to
     host applications'

    'Sources also noted that DEC's LAN product expansion involves
     a second remarketing agreement with M/A-Com Inc's Telecom-
     munications Division, Germantown, Md.

     Under that pact, DEC and M/A-Com have jointly developed and
     will begin sales next year of a broadband transceiver.  The
     as-yet unnamed trasceiver allows DECnet to function as the
     high speed data link on one channel of a broadband network,
     such as LocalNet/20.'

Since we have a broadband plant and are now trying to decide what
kind of networking hardware to install, this is of great interest
to us.

Does anyone have any details or guesses as to what the M/A-Com
transceiver will do?  Will it work with DEUNA boards in a manner
transparent to existing drivers?