lori@hacgate.scg.hac.com (Lori + 8/9) (03/29/90)
One of my internets is moving to another building, one which already has fiber in the walls. So we'd like to substitute fiber for the standard token ring cable stuff. The gnomes at 2APOLLO say there are two products: Optelecom and DFL100 modems which can make fiber talk to non-10000 nodes (DN10000s will apparently soon have full-blown FDDI available). Optelecom is reportedly a third-party supplier and mysteriously has no known phone number :-). What no one can answer is if either product does what we want. I'd guess they are primarily for inter-netting (like between rings in local buildings). But do they intra-net? DFL100 is supposed to come in two flavors: "standard link" and "redundant link." Help! Anyone care to translate this? (Hah, just call MFLASO [My Friendly Local Apollo Sales Office], right?) FYI, DFL100 is priced at $1210 and the redundant fiber link, DFL100-R, runs $1265. The doc says something close to "you need two for a complete link." Since that's pretty obvious, I wonder if there's a limitation to just *two* nets or something. ..lori