kkw@ucsd.edu (Kandi Kirk-Wilt) (06/05/91)
We are in the process of planning for a new building and I am trying to determine the best network configuration for our SUN network. It has been suggested that I consider FDDI given that we will be starting from scratch. I am looking for good resources (books, journals, papers etc.) for a person who knows almost nothing about FDDI to come up to speed. I am looking for any users experiences as well that would help me make a decision as to whether FDDI is a good choice for us. I would appreciate anything you are willing to share on FDDI that would help me get started relating to hardware and software issues. In case it matters my configuration for the new building will be: Sun4/280 server Sun4/470 server 20 sparcstations of various flavors 10 dumb terminals connected via annex possibly other non-Sun equipment that we would want to include in our network such as: HP or Next workstations, and X-terminals. Kandi Kirk-Wilt ccrwest!kkw@ucsd.edu Institute for Defense Analyses San Diego, Ca.
kkw@ucsd.edu (Kandi Kirk-Wilt) (06/05/91)
I posted this last week I thought however, I never saw it posted so I thought I would try again: We are in the process of planning for a new building and I am trying to determine the best network configuration for our SUN network. It has been suggested that I consider FDDI given that we will be starting from scratch. I am looking for good resources (books, journals, papers etc.) for a person who knows almost nothing about FDDI to come up to speed. I am looking for any users experiences as well that would help me make a decision as to whether FDDI is a good choice for us. I would appreciate anything you are willing to share on FDDI that would help me get started relating to hardware and software issues. In case it matters my configuration for the new building will be: Sun4/280 server Sun4/470 server 20 sparcstations of various flavors 10 dump terminals connected via annex possibly other non-Sun equipment that we would want to include in our network such as: HP or Next workstations, and X-terminals. Kandi Kirk-Wilt ccrwest!kkw@ucsd.edu Institute for Defense Analyses San Diego, Ca.