miket@ccicpg.UUCP (Mike Tracy) (01/14/88)
This probably won't help your immediate problem of connecting a
thin-lan to a normal ethernet cable, but I was reading about
a product called LattisNet. It apparently is a twisted pair ethernet.
It uses a star type of topology and phone lines (unshielded twisted pairs)
to make a low cost ethernet.
Does anyone know if the system is any good ?
Michael D. Tracy Computer Consoles Incorporated
(714)458-7282 9801 Muirlands Boulevard
Irvine, CA 92718
{allegra!hplabs!felix,seismo!rlgvax}!ccicpg!miketgarrett@udel.EDU (Joel Garrett) (01/15/88)
In article <9177@ccicpg.UUCP> miket@ccicpg.UUCP (Mike Tracy) writes: ... >thin-lan to a normal ethernet cable, but I was reading about >a product called LattisNet. It apparently is a twisted pair ethernet. >It uses a star type of topology and phone lines (unshielded twisted pairs) >to make a low cost ethernet. > >Does anyone know if the system is any good ? > Actually, Lattisnet allows you to run ethernet protocols over Fiber, Twisted Pairs (shielded and unshielded). We will be using the Shielded Twisted Pair host modules to give us Ethernet over our equivalent to IBM's shielded pairs cable in our new building. The local var for Synoptics just came out this past monday to perform a live test on a sample of our cabling and using some of our ethernet equipment that will end up on the new building network. All worked like a charm! Joel Garrett Center for Composite Materials University of Delaware garrett@udel.edu
OPRBBDM@TCSVM.BITNET (Bryan McWilliams) (01/16/88)
1) I have two lattisnets installed; can't say enough goood about the product. It's easy to install, and vey reliable. e 2) Thin wire to thick wire -- just use a reducer.
mechgam@tness1.UUCP (Gary Mink 713+521-6958) (01/22/88)
3Com has a product called the Multiconnect, a Modular Multiport Repeater.
My product information sheet says, "Repeater Modules provide connections
to Thick Ethernet, Thin Ethernet, Fiber and Twisted Pair..." The
Multiconnect can have 15 modules of different types in any combination.
Does anybody have any experience with this unit?
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Gary A. Mink
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. (713) 521-6958
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