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- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.cell-relay
- Subject: Re: LAN link cost issues
- Message-ID: <ts3p258@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 05:36:03 GMT
- References: <to6efqs@sgi.sgi.com> <23095@venera.isi.edu>
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In article <23095@venera.isi.edu>, finn@isi.edu (Greg Finn) writes:
- > In article <to6efqs@sgi.sgi.com> rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock) writes:
- >
- > >30 meters is too short. The generally-accepted "desk to wiring-closet"
- > >requirement is 100 meters, and even that is marginal.
- >
- > Not really. 100 meters is an encompassing requirement. 30
- > meters gets you a sizable percentage of point-to-point link distances
- > in practice. In our office tower it would handle most workstation to
- > concentrator links now....
-
- You have an unusual office tower.
- 100 meters is, as Rob says, short in many, and probably most situations.
-
- Even 30m or 100 feet didn't mean that your wire closet must be about 30
- feet from all of the desktops it serves (by the time you go down, up,
- around, etc), the 10BaseT people as well as some big standards (JEDEC?
- CCCITT? I forget) have written "100 Meters to the first wiring closet"
- in stone that is read by customers, building designers, and so on.
-
- > is several hundreds of dollars less ... you would choose that, no?
-
- In real life, the medium between the desktop and the closet, whether
- copper or 100Mbit/sec glass, is free. What costs is pulling it and
- putting connectors on the end. This perhaps surprising fact is evident
- if you install many campus sytems, or just watch the Interop Circus.
-
-
- > There remains the ability to site additional concentrators also. The
- > desirability would depend upon the cost savings. Four sites per floor
- > is sufficient for complete geographic spread in a good sized
- > multi-hall office building. ...
-
- Wiring closest are very precious things. You don't find extra ones.
- You sometimes find extra rooms, but they'll have nice things like
- transformers running at 140 degrees F and no ventilation. (I've seen
- more than one such in real life.) All of the concentrators I heard
- about or seen are as fragile as many workstations, as intolerant of
- heat, quite demanding of power, and demanding of human attention.
-
- You're not going to be able to hide concentrators in false ceilings,
- even if the fire marshalls should not have fits. For one thing, many
- people who buy them have LED fetishes, and need to show thei pretty
- lights on their $10,000 boxes to their bosses.
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-
- Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
-