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to: BERNHARD KUEMEL
from: GERRY DANEN
date: 1997-10-18 09:34:00
subject: optical fiber networks

On 16 Oct 97  21:41:28, Bernhard was going on about "optical fiber 
networks"...
 BK> I have never heard of or seen optical fiber networks in small
 BK> environments where usually something like ethernet is used. Why? Is it
 BK> that expensive? I wouldn't think so. And it could be as flexible as
 BK> 10base2 if there were 2 connectors on each card and this way there
 BK> would be no distance limit.
Why do you need the fibre?
 BK> Or are there already cheap solutions? How much do they cost, where can
 BK> I get them and how good are they?
100MB ethernet is quite common now...
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