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From: phil@amdcad.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Remote MAC level bridges
Message-ID: <21343@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 28 Apr 88 17:36:42 GMT
References: <3561@fluke.COM> <1037@nusdhub.UUCP>
Reply-To: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices
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In article <1037@nusdhub.UUCP> rwhite@nusdhub.UUCP (Robert C. White Jr.) writes:
>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.
>> 
.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....

This is actually very practical. We did the same thing. Well, the ROWs
we needed cross city streets so our ducts are 30 feet below the
surface of the street, under the city's sewers and stuff. But it
works! We have fiber linking our 9 different buildings now, and as
much twisted pair as we can use with plenty of duct space for more if
we need it. 

-- 
Make Japan the 51st state!

I speak for myself, not the company.
Phil Ngai, {ucbvax,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!phil or phil@amd.com