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- From: fenton@iron.hq.aflc.af.mil (George I. Fenton)
- Subject: Re: Ethernet vs. Token Ring for fiber-optic backbone links
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- Organization: U.S. Air Force Security Assistance Center (AFSAC)
- References: <1993Jan6.163236.17399@rpslmc.edu> <C0GD2s.M3y@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 13:20:04 GMT
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- Depending on your applications, you may want to look at FDDI
- as your backbone protocol. We have configured our PCNET here
- with 10BaseT Concentrators for the PC workstations connections,
- a Cisco router to route traffic either to the LAN backbone
- (where the servers are located) or to the 56 kbps WAN connections,
- and a FDDI backbone to connect the router and the servers.
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- Although FDDI is a bit more expensive, you get 100Mbps with
- redundancy capability (depending on configuration).
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- PCs <----> 10BaseT Concentrators <---> Router <--> FDDI hub
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- WAN servers
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