On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 05:16:36PM -0500, Martin Hannigan wrote:
At 05:09 PM 2/6/98 -0500, you wrote:
I have started to look at "Fast Ethernet" and see "Full-Duplex Switched Fast Ethernet". I mean, the switch ports are SO cheap, why do anything less...
It's even cheaper to cascade 10mbps/repeaters off of hdx switch 10's and aggregate them into 100's.
Regards,
-- Martin Hannigan hannigan@xcom.net Sr. Network Engineer Network Operations XCOM Technologies, INC. F:617.500.0002 V:617.500.0108
10Mbps switches with 100Mbps FDX uplink ports are rather cheap these days. Just use those and fergit about it; your backbone is then 100Mbps FDX, and the drops are either switched 10 or 100Mbps (depending on where you drop from). We have been smurfed at *sustained* rates in excess of 70Mbps (two full-bore DS3s worth - peaks right up at 44.7 X 2) and haven't managed to saturate this back-office network fabric :-) Want a second free tip? CMD RAID controllers :-) -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly to FULL DS-3 Service | NEW! K56Flex support on ALL modems Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost