| Title: | FDDI - The Next Generation | 
| Moderator: | NETCAD::STEFANI | 
| Created: | Thu Apr 27 1989 | 
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 | 
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Number of topics: | 2259 | 
| Total number of notes: | 8590 | 
    
    June-1995.
    
    I have a customer that is claiming they can do FDDI over microwave
    links.
    
    Does anyone know:
    
    1. Is this for real, are we really now able to do 100Mb/s FDDI over
    microwave?
    
    2. If we can do this isn't the microwave going to introduce errors?
    Which I hope are detected by the nextstation on the ring as a CRC
    error.
    
    What error rate should we specify we require if we want to use this in
    a vax cluster enviroment.
    
    3. Any other thoughts?
    
    :J 
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| 1703.1 | NETCAD::STEFANI | Welcome to the Revolution! | Fri Jun 02 1995 17:49 | 8 | |
|     >>I have a customer that is claiming they can do FDDI over microwave
    >>links.
    
    Have you asked the customer to back up his claims?  I have not seen an
    FDDI over microwave implementation, but that's not to say that someone
    somewhere hasn't built it.
    
    /l
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| 1703.2 | Maybe its really T3? | JUMP4::JOY | Perception is reality | Tue Jun 06 1995 14:12 | 8 | 
|     Make sure he isn't talking about the microwave T3 MDF/BRS solution. We
    are running split clusters over T3 microwave in Australia, with each
    site running their nodes locally on FDDI. The customer (depending on
    how technical he/she is) might think they are running FDDI over the
    microwave since both ends are on FDDI.
    
    Debbie
    
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