GD> Why do you need the fibre?
 GD> 100MB ethernet is quite common now...
 BK> Well, with fibres you can transmit much faster than with electric
 BK> wires. I thought maybe with a simple fibre network one could exceed
 BK> the rates of ethernet. But while I think about it, some 100 MHz is
 BK> about the maximum frequency todays electric circuits work with. So to
 BK> get faster the process has to be parallelized like using multiple
 BK> frequencies in the fibre which would require something like prisms and
 BK> filters in the fibre connectors and would make the stuff too expensive
 BK> for simple applications. And then, 100 Mbps is already as fast as
 BK> todays hard disks. I only had the feeling of my 10 Mbps ethernet.
At work I run over 100 workstations and 2 servers on a 10 Mbps ethernet
LAN, so unless you have some incredible needs, I would not sweat the
fibre... :)
Gerry Danen (gdanen@accessweb.com) C+Net BBS @ 403-477-9545
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