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- From: sweeny@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Brent Sweeny)
- Subject: Re: Backbone in a box: how to mount all those transceivers
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 21:39:38 GMT
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- We (Indiana University) have grappled with this problem too, with 6 very-full
- AGS+s in 3 racks (the room from which the fiber goes to all of our campus
- buildings only reluctantly gave us room for 3 racks, so we had to fill them
- as efficiently as possible!) We also looked for rackmounted AUI-to-FOIRL
- transceivers, but couldn't find what we wanted: primarily small width, with
- LEDs on the opposite end of the AUI connector (so we could see them easily).
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- What we finally came up with is to run short AUI cables from the ports on the
- back of the AGS+ MEC-6 cards into prebuilt panels of AUI connectors into which
- we plug Netcor FOIRL mini-tranceivers which have AUI and ST connectors on
- opposite ends, with LEDs below the ST connectors so we can see them from the
- end. They're nice and small, and cost less than the Cabletron FOTs we had
- previously used. It enables us to have a neat installation in minimal space.
- Brent Sweeny
- Indiana University Computing Services
- sweeny@indiana.edu
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