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From: dyer@spdcc.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.lan
Subject: Re: optical fiber links for IBM PC's
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Date: Thu, 24-Jul-86 00:51:53 EDT
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Codenoll's PC adapter cards for ethernet and the Sytek LocalNet presumably use
the fiber in the same way that their ethernet transceivers use the fiber:
simply as a transmission medium with the same bandwidth as the network
technology they replace.  In exchange, you get lower cost than coax for long
(i.e. campus-wide) runs, as well as EMI immunity, etc.
-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@harvard.HARVARD.EDU
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