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From: plb@dcdwest.UUCP (Phil Blais)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: LAN Performance
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Date: Mon, 5-Oct-87 18:15:14 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  5 18:15:14 1987
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Are there any meaningful performance benchmarks published comparing the various
LAN products currently available?  What I'm really after is a mechanism which
will allow me to make intelligent recommendations as to which HW/SW purchases
to make given a particular operating scenerio. E.g. short bursty message
traffic as opposed to long file transfer, many ( > 10) nodes on the network
as opposed to just a few nodes etc.

As it stands right now I'm looking down a long black tunnel with very little
light at the end (Shades of D&D) any burning candles will be greatly 
appreciated.

phil