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From: bob@islenet.UUCP (Bob Cunningham)
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Subject: Re: two different flavors of fiber optic repeaters?
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Date: Thu, 11-Sep-86 04:16:51 EDT
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> >DEC's DEREP-RA, costing $2k+.
> >
> >noticeable, useful differences include different types of LED indicators,
> >automatic partitioning features...and lengths of warranties.
> 
> DEC doesn't seem to push their automatic partitioning as much as I
> think is justified...

I've just been convinced that automatic partitioning is a very, very good
thing to have.  Two other repeaters with that feature (there might be
others, if so I'd like to hear about those) are:

	American Photonics' R0001 (with SMA fiber connector)
	and R002 (with ST connector), priced a bit less than
	DEC's DEREP-RA.

	Canoga Data Systems's CER-802 (SMA connector only),
	priced around $1.3k (recent price reduction from $2k,
	and the paritioning feature may be fairly new also).

I intend to buy one of those three brands for some fiber optic links here
at the University of Hawaii, and would appreciate hearing anybody's
experiences with those last two.

-- 
Bob Cunningham  {humu|ihnp4}!{islenet|uhmanoa}!bob
		cunninghamr%haw.sdscnet@LLL-MFE.ARPA
Hawaii Institute of Geophysics, University of Hawaii