Paul Ferguson <ferguson@cisco.com> writes:

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Okay. Playing my usual devil's advocate role, please tell me what migration path lies beyond FDDI for faster connectivity?

SM FDDI -> SM POS. Problem solved. Reuse your fibre, even.

*cough* Um, hate to have to raise an ugly bugaboo, but reusing the fibre isn't the problem; it's redesigning the whole network architecture from multidrop, ring based FDDI, to point-to-point POS connections. Or are you going to point out a cheap (~$100,000) SONET switch that will work as a relatively "drop-in" replacement for already installed DEC Gigaswitches? If you know of one, let me know, and I'll order a half dozen. Otherwise, there really isn't any multi-drop replacement for FDDI at this point.

Your inventive marketing friend, Sean.

Inventive, definitely. Practical, on the other hand... Matt