Hiya Mike,
On 20-10-97, whilst lying in the gutter of the information super highway, I 
heard Mike Bilow whispering to Bernhard Kuemel about optical fiber networks,
 MB> But no one needs gigabit Ethernet to the desktop.
Care to be reminded of that line in, say, 5 years time Mike? Whether we like 
it or not, bright spark users will keep having daft ideas about IP phones and 
video conferencing from the desktop. The network we're replacing in our 
office was a nice, routed, 5 ring 4meg T/R with about 80 users on each ring. 
The new one looks like it's going to be a switched 10meg Ethernet with 100meg 
server farm and 12 users per hubbed segment and the 3174s on 16meg T/R with a 
then gradual switch to 100meg Ethernet. Next will come an FDDI backbone no 
doubt. Simple fact of life is that Neil's 4th law of computers is...
4. You can never have enough bandwidth.
which follows processor, memory and hard drive space. =o)
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