glen@aecom.YU.EDU (Glen M. Marianko) (06/28/88)
Here's a great way to start a rumor... I was at a major LAN integration company here in NYC early June and a salesman let out that Synoptics had sent them for Beta a product similar to the 3Com Pairtaimer. In other words, this new product will run twisted from closet to desktop and then turn into thin-net for daisy-chaining to the workstation. I have not seen any press on this. Anyone have more details about it? How does it compare to 3Com's? Gee, I don't know about the rest of you, but I think the twisted to coax concept is MUCH better than just twisted to AUI. It seems so much more cost effective to do one run today and not have to do another tomorrow if another station (inevitably) pops up next to the original. The only thing that bugs me about Synoptics is their (seemilgly) heavy reliance on fiber as a backbone. Fiber is so expensive to run and terminate for each wiring closet on a floor over using coax (I use thin as riser when possible). I'd much rather put a 3Com Multiconnect on every floor than a Lattisnet box... -- Glen Marianko glen@aecom.yu.edu