| Title: | FDDI - The Next Generation |
| Moderator: | NETCAD::STEFANI |
| Created: | Thu Apr 27 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2259 |
| Total number of notes: | 8590 |
I have just gotten around to reading my August 13th copy of
"Communications Week" and on the front page a headline screams out at
me that DEC is testing FDDI over _shielded_ twisted pair cable. Inside
the text of the article, a DEC person (Wendy Micheal) acknowledges that
DEC is working on this. I have worked in NWSS for the past 4 years and
have not installed _any_ of that type of cable. The DECconnect specs
call for unshielded TWP and ThinWire coax. I was realy hoping that DEC
would come out and announce that we're testing FDDI on some of the
medias that our troops have been pushing for years. I don't have a clue
what I'd say to all of my past customers who have millions of dollars
of cable installed on the reccomendation of DEC and myself. I hope that
this is not the last alternative media announcement that DEC comes out
with.
Dennis
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 121.1 | Another Source... | AUNTB::REED | John Reed @CBO - DTN:367-6463 - NWSS | Thu Aug 23 1990 18:36 | 13 |
This same conversation is occuring in the "Digital NEWS" August
20, on page 5, quoting:
"...Digital Equipment Corporation has lab-tested an FDDI...network
running on Shielded twisted pair wiring and found that it works
according to Digital Spokeswoman Joyce Radner."
I guess it's true, I wish that we (DIGITAL internal people) knew about this
stuff at least a FEW days before our customers did...
Maybe I should get a night job as a customer ??
JR
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| 121.2 | I heard it at Net U. 2/1/90 | KYOA::WHITECOTTON | Just the FACTS...... | Fri Aug 31 1990 17:23 | 1 |
> I guess it's true, I wish that we (DIGITAL internal people) knew about this | |||||