| Title: | DEChub/HUBwatch/PROBEwatch CONFERENCE | 
| Notice: | Firmware -2, Doc -3, Power -4, HW kits -5, firm load -6&7 | 
| Moderator: | NETCAD::COLELLA DT | 
| Created: | Wed Nov 13 1991 | 
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Number of topics: | 4455 | 
| Total number of notes: | 16761 | 
    The old LANbridges (100/150/200) support maximum interbridge fiber
    optic distance of 3.0/3.0/10.0 Km respectively as documented on page
    A-2 & A-3 of "Bridge and Extended LAN Reference, EK-DEBAM-HR-003".
    
    Does any of DEChub 90/900 fiber Ethernet module support this range? We
    have customer who needs only Ethernet over 2.0 but less than 3.0 Km
    interbuilding LAN-to-LAN. It looks like we have to sell them old
    LANbridges.
    
    Faraday
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| 2562.1 | others have it | VAXRIO::ROLF | Vaporware Design Specialist | Thu Aug 24 1995 10:00 | 7 | 
|     One of our major cometitor in the HUB market offers a 802.3 FOIRL
    transceiver which, they claim, will work over 3 Km. From other sources
    I hear that it problably works, given the link is within loss budget
    etc, but of course it is not supported by neither DEC nor the 802.3
    rules.
    
    Rolf
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| 2562.2 | It's all in how you look at it... | ROMEOS::HARRIS_MA | Sales Executive II | Thu Aug 24 1995 17:59 | 10 | 
|     RE: -.1
    
    That reminds me of the customer in Phoenix a dozen years ago that ran
    VT52 terminals on 480-foot RS232 cables at 4800baud. They worked find
    as long as the terminals were never powered down!
    
    The world is a set of trade-offs. Some more important than others (like
    adherence to production networking rules I guess!)
    
    Mark
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