Well, I had written that I considered 100VG a joke but decided not to send that :-). But - agree with you on that. ------Origineel bericht------ Van: Paul Koning Afzender: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE Aan: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Beantwoorden: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] Towards the Mouth of Madness.... Verzonden: 12 juli 2011 23:49 You're right, FDDI predated 100BaseT by a little. Not by a whole lot. 100BaseVG was always a joke. paul On Jul 12, 2011, at 5:44 PM, <hvlems at zonnet.nl> wrote: Paul. In 1991 there was no fast ethernet as we know it today. Ethernet over glassfiber was proprietary and by and large restricted to 10 Mb/s. The problems with the redesign had tot do with emulating FDDI's built in redundancy with ethernet. ------Origineel bericht------ Van: Paul Koning Afzender: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE Aan: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Beantwoorden: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] Towards the Mouth of Madness.... Verzonden: 12 juli 2011 23:38 On Jul 12, 2011, at 5:29 PM, <hvlems at zonnet.nl> <hvlems at zonnet.nl> wrote: It took HP until 2006 to replace the FDDI lan with ethernet technolgy. The fault tolerance of FDDI and the build quality of DEC's gigaswitch products. The bandwidth of FDDI is a lot better than fast ethernet. Not true, not unless the implementation is crummy. Any halfway decent fast Ethernet host will run at wire speed, and the difference between 1500 and 4460 MTU isn't enough to amount to very much. paul Verzonden vanaf mijn draadloze BlackBerry -toestel Verzonden vanaf mijn draadloze BlackBerry -toestel