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From: rwhite@nusdhub.UUCP (Robert C. White Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Remote MAC level bridges
Message-ID: <1037@nusdhub.UUCP>
Date: 28 Apr 88 02:08:22 GMT
References: <3561@fluke.COM>
Organization: National University, San Diego
Lines: 56

in article <3561@fluke.COM>, norm@tc.fluke.COM (Norm Seethoff) says:
> 
> 
> Our Facilities Department's passion to move people into separate buildings
> continues.  We are now faced with the need to extend our engineering Ethernet
> to a new building.
> 
> Options we have considered:
> 
> 1)  get the Facilities manager fired:
> 2)  install more Vitalink TranLAN bridges with T-1 lines:
> 3)  install remote repeaters connected by optical fiber:
> 	Possible, but not likely.  Optical cable would have to be provided
> 4)  install a higher speed MAC level remote bridge with a digital radio link:

This may be a dumb question but: Do you have a "real land route"
	between your buildings.  We were having similar problems
	[i.e. choice 3] with moving our trunks and extensions
	up and down the block here.  We got clear title to a
	strip of land running down the block and then called the
	phone company....

We hade them:
	1) dig a hole [trench]
	2) lay a cable [cheaper w/phone company than outside help]
	3) lay four empty conduits with the cable
	4) cut all our CO-copper over onto the cable
	5) mount/burry a junction behind each building

This got us:
	1) a nice plot of freshly turned earth
	2) off the many-months-of-pain waiting lists for all our
		service change orders
	3) places to have outside parties [like AT&T] lay things
		like interduct w/fiber 
	4) off the very expensive "rented" CO-copper for every
		circut on the block
	5) the ability to go anywhere, anytime, without having to
		mother-may-I the CO

This endevor was, and still is, ***__VERY!__*** cost effective.
Having bought the copper and the trench once, we are now free of
our CO for every on-site [i.e. 6 large buildings] telecom/data/lan
connection we care to make.


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