jc@riv05.UUCP (Jean-Claude Wippler) (02/08/85)
We are considering the installation of Proteon's 10MB token ring. The boards will go into VAX 750's, PDP11/70's, and later possibly also PDP11/73's, ALTOS 986's and IBM PC/AT's. Is there anyone out there with arguments in favor / against this ? Does anyone have information about reliability, performance, and service ? There appear to be only a small number of sites at this end of the ocean, and we cannot afford specialized network personnel just to keep a LAN running. We would be very grateful to receive any suggestions and comments on this, and hope to reach the land of tokens, packets, and datagrams without too many problems ... Yours truly, Jean-Claude Wippler ...!mcvax!riv04!jc
ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (02/11/85)
> We are considering the installation of Proteon's 10MB token ring. > The boards will go into VAX 750's, PDP11/70's, and later possibly > also PDP11/73's, ALTOS 986's and IBM PC/AT's. > > Is there anyone out there with arguments in favor / against this ? > Does anyone have information about reliability, performance, and > service ? There appear to be only a small number of sites at this > end of the ocean, and we cannot afford specialized network personnel > just to keep a LAN running. > > We would be very grateful to receive any suggestions and comments > on this, and hope to reach the land of tokens, packets, and datagrams > without too many problems ... > Yours truly, > Jean-Claude Wippler > ...!mcvax!riv04!jc We use the Pronet. One of the major factors for us was the speed and the ability to use fiber optics as a transmission medium. We just installed it and use it. We've had no problems except one UNIBUS board that was dead on arrival and cheerfully replaced by Proteon. We're standing in line for the first of their 80mb boards now.
tadl@crystal.UUCP (02/21/85)
> We are considering the installation of Proteon's 10MB token ring. > The boards will go into VAX 750's, PDP11/70's, and later possibly > also PDP11/73's, ALTOS 986's and IBM PC/AT's. > > Is there anyone out there with arguments in favor / against this ? > Does anyone have information about reliability, performance, and > service ? There appear to be only a small number of sites at this > end of the ocean, and we cannot afford specialized network personnel > just to keep a LAN running. > > We would be very grateful to receive any suggestions and comments > on this, and hope to reach the land of tokens, packets, and datagrams > without too many problems ... > Yours truly, > Jean-Claude Wippler > ...!mcvax!riv04!jc Our configuration here is about 9 vaxes an ibm 4341 and a couple of ibm pc's all scattered around the building, which are on the local net. We also have a research net ( Crystal project ) with about 25 vaxes, which we are converting over to an 80MB token ring that proteon has designed for us. We have been running ProNET for almost two years. In the early days we did have our problems, lots of errors, boards would quit working. We were kept fairly busy tracking down problems and isolating bad boards. We rewired all of the machines to use cables that we bought from Proteon and after several ECO's the boards seem reliable. We have been running for about 6 months with out any major problems. -- Tad Lebeck ARPA: tadl@wisconsin UUCP: ...!{allegra,ihnp4,seismo,sfwin,ucbvax,uwm-evax}!uwvax!tadl PHONE: 608-262-7950