dorl@uwmacc.UUCP (Michael Dorl) (10/25/84)
The Oct 22, 1984 'Communications Week' contained a front page
article titled 'DEC Set to Add Broadband LANs Based on Equipment
from Sytek'. Two quotes are of interest..
'DEC will begin sales and installation next year of the
LocalNet/20 product line to its existing customer base,
primarily targeting terminal to host as well as host to
host applications'
'Sources also noted that DEC's LAN product expansion involves
a second remarketing agreement with M/A-Com Inc's Telecom-
munications Division, Germantown, Md.
Under that pact, DEC and M/A-Com have jointly developed and
will begin sales next year of a broadband transceiver. The
as-yet unnamed trasceiver allows DECnet to function as the
high speed data link on one channel of a broadband network,
such as LocalNet/20.'
Since we have a broadband plant and are now trying to decide what
kind of networking hardware to install, this is of great interest
to us.
Does anyone have any details or guesses as to what the M/A-Com
transceiver will do? Will it work with DEUNA boards in a manner
transparent to existing drivers?medin@ucbvax.ARPA (Milo Medin) (11/01/84)
I understand that the DEC broadband stuff takes the place of the transciver. I was told that this means it should work with any 802.3 ethernet controller. You'll need a headend of course, but no software patches or anything.... Rumours rumours... Milo