Re: [chat] Termination of FO cable

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Terry Collins was once rumoured to have said:
> Crossfire wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Speaking of Fibre, anybody know where I can pick up some FDDI gear at
> > a reasonable price?
> 
> http://www.netgear.com.au?
> 
> http://www.netgear.com.au/categories.asp?xrp=3&yrp=8
> Their FS509 is about $2,000 {:-)

Whee!

*starts saving pennys*

> > My little DECStation in 'berra has an FDDI card in it doing
> > nothing. :)
> 
> Now, for something reasonable for this (guessing 10MB/s), you need to be
> lucky at the auctions, or hunt around for one of those FO to AUI
> adapters. 
> 
> Is FDDI the square push-in plug?

Uh, no.

FDDI is a token-ring-like Fibre networking system which is supposed to
be superior to 100Base-FX.  Its 100Mb/sec, with some self-healing
properties (The ring will heal itself if it breaks as I understand
it).  Usually used in serious network rigging, and by Telstra for high
capacity "Datavault" rollouts to customers.

My DECStation was ex-CAP Project from the ANU - the CAP project used
an FDDI ring to connect the AP series parallel computers into the file
servers and other systems.

C.
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