annala@neuro.usc.edu (A J Annala) (11/15/89)
I am moving into a brand new building that was supposed to be completely
cabled with 10 MBPS thick wire ethernet. Instead, the building seems to
be completely cabled with twisted wire pairs and "Cabletron Systems TPT-2
ETHERNET/IEEE 802.3 TWISTED PAIR TRANSCEIVER UNIT (MAU) WITH LANVIEW" --
I have several SUN hosts, IBM PC's, Apple MacIIci's, and some very high
rate image processing and digital signal processing machines to support
on this network. Many of these machines are diskless and therefore boot
and swap over the network. Needless to say, I am more than a little
concerned about the potential loss of bandwidth involved in shuttling my
data over twisted pair.
o Does anyone have experience with the Cabletron TPT-2 system?
o Does it really support the full 10 MPBS bandwidth of "thick wire"
ethernet as claimed?
o Is it fully compatible with all traditional ethernet products
(DECNET, SUN NFS, 3Com, Appletalk-Ethernet-Appletalk bridges)?
I would appreciate direct email to annala%neuro.usc.edu@usc.edu responses
to this query as this is the first time I have read this newsgroup. I am
willing to post an anonymous summary of responses if anyone is interested.
Thanks, AJ