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to: MICHAEL OLIVER
from: BERNHARD KUEMEL
date: 1997-10-19 13:36:00
subject: optical fiber networks

Hi Michael!
18 Oct 97 23:18, Michael Oliver (3:640/257) wrote to Bernhard Kuemel:
 BK>> environments where usually something like ethernet is used. Why?
 BK>> Is it that expensive? I wouldn't think so. And it could be as
 BK>> flexible as
 MO> The termination of the cable.
?
 MO> The actual converter.
A LED and a phototransistor?
 BK>> 10base2 if there were 2 connectors on each card and this way
 BK>> there
 MO> 1 is for the transmit, the other for the recieve.
Ahh, are they usually not using one fibre for receiving and transmitting? So 
then I meant 2 pairs of connectors. Like every node being a repeater.
 BK>> would be no distance limit.
 MO> 2 Km.
 MO> Michael
Ciao, Bernhard!
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