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Check out www.vbns.net page on the OC-3 monitor. OC3 over PCI. -scott At 06:02 PM 7/21/97 -0400, Chris Wilson wrote: >On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > >> I have a friend who's in the high speed optoelectronics biz and >> already does lots of OC-[N] equipment, and I mentioned to him that I >> thought that there was probably a market for PCI cards that spoke IP >> over OC-3/OC-12. Before I strongly encourage him to do this, I was >> curious as to whether anyone else felt there was a real market for >> such things. > >I was (somewhat) following a dicussion about high speed communications >handled over the PCI bus, and there's a company that makes T1/T3-level >serial cards for PC's, and from what they were saying, there's no way to >reach even a full T3 worth of bandwidth on a PCI bus, so I think trying to >push an OC-# connection over it might be pushing it a bit ;) > >Chris > >Chris Wilson (CW40) | http://www.atlantic.net >Internet Connect Company | Dial-up access * Web hosting >Sales: 800-422-2936 Support: 800-921-9328 | Leased lines * News services > > >
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