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From: s160041@castor.ucdavis.edu (Greg DeMichillie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Remote Bridge at full Appletalk speed?
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Date: 18 May 89 06:08:10 GMT
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In article <25063@coherent.com> dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt) writes:
>In article <4316@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> I write:
>> I was wondering if anyone knew of a Appletalk bridge that supports speeds of
>> over 19.2 K baud.  We are going to be running our existing Appletalk 
>> network to a remote site over a microwave link and it would be nice to not
>> bottleneck the Appletalk system with a 19.2K baud modem bridge.

>I suppose what you really need is a LocalTalk halfbridge that talks T-1
>speeds between the halfbridges... T-1 microwave links are (I'm pretty
>sure) an off-the-shelf item, and the bandwidth of a T-1 link exceeds
>that of a LocalTalk net by a comfortable margin.  I haven't heard of any
>such halfbridges, though.  Maybe a pair of FastPaths, plus a pair of T-1
>EtherNet half-bridges?  Not cheap, I'm afraid.

This is exactly what I want... a direct AppleTalk to T-1 link.  There is a
product called Vitalink that provides an EtherTalk to T-1 connection.  But
then I need something like this:

     LocalTalk -->  FastPath --> EtherTalk --> VitaLink --> T1

     T1 --> VitaLink --> EtherTalk --> FastPath --> LocalTalk

While this solves the problem it involves the additional expense of
ethernet cables, Kinetics FastPaths (or equivalent) and the Vitalink boxes.

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Greg DeMichillie               *          Apple Student Rep - UC Davis 
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Greg DeMichillie               *          Apple Student Rep - UC Davis 
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