Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!mailrus!wasatch!haas
From: haas@wasatch.utah.edu (Walt Haas)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Need info on transceivers...
Keywords: ouch
Message-ID: <1707@wasatch.utah.edu>
Date: 2 May 89 15:55:14 GMT
References: <1815@leah.Albany.Edu>
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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In article <1815@leah.Albany.Edu>, rds95@leah.Albany.Edu (Robert Seals) writes:
>..Got any good suggestions for transceivers to thick ethernet backbones?

We like the Cabletron ST-500.

> I've been warned off "vampire" taps...

They work fine if you get them in correctly.

> Why are these things so expensive?

Cabletron's price to Universitys is $165, that doesn't seem too bad.

Cheers  -- Walt Haas    haas@cs.utah.edu    utah-cs!haas