terry@brl-smoke.ARPA (Terry Sejnowski ) (07/19/86)
<*> I need information on small port contention boxes suitable for RS232 asynchronous traffic. We would like to start with 16 ports, but the ability to expand (to perhaps 48) would be a plus. The environment would be a mix of async. terminals, host ports, modems, and serial printers. In particular, I would like to be able to use the same modem for both dial-in and dial-out traffic. Data transparency after connection is also important. As an example, the Gandalf rep. is suggesting their SWITCHMUX which has up to 16 ports per box and upto 4 boxes connected by synchronous links. I am not very familiar with this area and any other suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, Bill Bogstad bogstad@hopkins-eecs-bravo.arpa P.S. Keeping the price low is probably the #1 priority. I found a box in the Inmac catalog for $2k/16 ports and am going to have to fight for each additional dollar to get what we really need.