jsloan@wright.EDU (John Sloan) (05/21/87)
We are looking at connecting our main campus baseband coax ethernet with a similar ethernet at a research park via microwave. The distance involved appears to be about five miles. We do have a line of sight. We have a microwave tower at the main campus, but nothing yet on the other end. We are in the processes of having a site survey done. There are a few towers along the way which could be used as relays, although the cost of duplicating the necessary equipment is of course very high. We are running TCP/IP and DECnet on our ethernet and are likely to have machines which speak both at either end. We are also using ND and NFS. Although it may be convenient to be able to do remote file mounts across the microwave, it is not clear that it will be necessary or desirable. We would like to invite anyone (including vendors) to share their experience with such a setup with us. If you email directly to my address shown below, and there is enough interest, I would be more than happy to summarize for the net at large. I've read that ethernet via microwave is a real management and technical nightmare, so horror stories are invited too. Thanks in advance! John Sloan jsloan@CS.Wright.EDU ...!cbosgd!wright!jsloan jsloan@wright.CSNET -- John Sloan CSNET: jsloan@CS.Wright.EDU UUCP: ...!cbosgd!wright!jsloan Computer Science Department, Wright State University, Dayton OH, 45435 +1 513 873 2491 belong(opinions,jsloan). belong(opinions,_):-!,fail. The only thing that depreciates faster than a computer is fresh fruit.