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From: steve@umd-cs.uucp (Steven M. Miller)
Newsgroups: net.lan
Subject: Re: Anybody running Ethernets between buildings?
Message-ID: <154@umd-cs.uucp>
Date: Thu, 14-Nov-85 15:11:13 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 14 15:11:13 1985
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>Organization: DEC Western Region Operations, Santa Clara, CA

>> We will be putting in an ethernet soon; it may have to span several
>> buildings.  I had heard that this may present problems. 

>You may want to look at a new product announced by DEC called LAN Bridge 
>100 that allows you to connect multiple ethernets together. They can be
>electrically isolated with a fiber optic link up to 2000 meters, traffic
>that is local to one ethernet does not get sent to the other ethernet unless
>that's where the destination is, to the systems it looks like one big
>ethernet, and you can link up to seven ethernets with bridges. It is also
>protocol independent.

>Rich Kotter 	decvax!decwrl!muscat!kotter


Free advertising on the net again...


Bridge also has a similar product, and I don't believe it's limited
to 2000 meters either.

			-steve

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