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I'm assuming the 120 PCs will reside on Ethernet with the servers
sitting on FDDI? Most likely a switched Ethernet will do the trick for
now. THe beauty of the the DEChub is that you can add FDDI to it later
if need be and migrate the servers and perhaps some of the PCs to the
FDDI ring. When the per-port switching capability is available for the
DECrepeater 900, you will be able to isolate groups of Ethernet users
to particular LANs to improve performance before needing to upgrade to
FDDI as well. And, with an ATM card being planned for the DEChub in the
future, you can show them a growth path for both their voice and data
which Fibermux can't really give them with the TDM. THey will protect
their investment in the DEChub backplane and be able to grow their
bandwidth requirements gradually as needed.
I would probably look quite intently at the DEChub solution. And
somewhere there is a number of how many Gbps capacity the backplane has
(can someone help me out with the number?), so it will give them much
more growth than the 50Mbps for each data and voice that FIbermux
offers.
Debbie
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