dlw@ucbopal.CC.Berkeley.ARPA (06/21/84)
Can anyone recommend a consulting group capable of designing or advising
apropos a large multi-vendor, multi-protocol, multi-usage network?
We are planning to implement general network services for a large university
campus. It is not possible, for example, to use a single ethernet because
of geographic size. We need to be able to accomodate everything from > 10000
dumb terminals multiplexed to arbitrary hosts (a la Sytek or U/B) to > 1000
"IBM PC (yeah, I know, but they were cheap) to vax class" workstations talking
to each other or remote resources, to at least several hundred "large vax to
IBM 3081 or Cray class" hosts doing file transfer, remote filesystem backup,
etc. We want advice on everything from design of the cable plant to specifics
of controllers and software. Unlike MIT, UCLA, Stanford, etc., we must buy
"off the shelf", or at least from a vendor.
Yes, I know we're all "experts" (at least we think we are) but management
here would feel reassured if an outside consultant blessed a design.
("What's your $/page?") It is desireable that the consultants be located
on the west coast since that's where we are. Please reply directly to me.
David Wasley
dlw@Berkeley.ARPA or ...!ucbvax!ucbopal!dlw or dlw@ucbjade.bitnet