Hello Bernhard!
On Thursday October 16 1997 at 21:41, Bernhard Kuemel wrote to All:
 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.
 BK> Or are there already cheap solutions? How much do they cost, where can
 BK> I get them and how good are they?
100mbits FDDI is good - but it's expensive. 2km max length, but it's just not 
cheap. Mainly used for backbones, or supercomputing applications. You 
wouldn't get much change out of 25ukp for a connector for the end of the 
fibre...
It still works out fine for normal copper for most small Lans, with FDDI for 
backbones.
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 Will                                        
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