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From: morrison@norby.acns.nwu.edu (Vance Morrison)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Installing Thinwire Ethernet
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Date: 19 May 89 16:05:13 GMT
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Hello,


I realize that this does not directly the question about Tee's on
thin ethernet but I thought people would be interested in it.

A novel ethernet product I have seen reciently is twisted pair ethernet with
Thin net converters.

The idea is this, you run twisted pair ethernet from your phone closet to
wall plates in each room.  Each room has a Twisted pair converter mounted in
the wall plate.  Then you just daisy-chain everything (up to 10) in the room 
with thin net and connect it to the wall plate.  

This I believe is a very nice solution.  

Costs

	Twisted pair Hub (8 Ports)	$2000 
	Twisted pair/Thinnet converter	$450

Thus the cost per room is about $750.  But if there are 3 machines in the
room this is a $250/machine, not bad.  

I have seen these things advertized by Cabletron, but I am sure there are
other vendors selling them

If there is interest, I mail/post specifics


Vance