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Re: is there a market for this?

  • From: Bob Oyler
  • Date: Wed Jul 23 12:37:09 1997

Check out www.sdlcomm.com, I believe they have a HSSI card for a PCI bis

At 03:47 PM 7/23/97 +0100, Andrew Bangs wrote:
>Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>> 
>> As for the other implication, although I personally don't run or
>> intend to run networks using normal unix boxes as routers (and BTW,
>> PCI bus covers Power-PC hardware, Alphas and soon Suns, too!), I know of
>> organizations like Demon in the U.K. that run almost exclusively this
>> way and seem to like it a lot.
>> 
>
>UK and Netherlands :-)
>
>They seem to work well as routers with ethernet, fast ethernet and
>fddi, and we make quite a bit of use of the ZNYX multi-port ethernet
>cards where we need higher port density. 
>
>We ended up buying a non-PC router when we wanted a HSSI connection
>somewhere. Has anyone found a nice HSSI-PCI card that has support
>in any of the BSD-a-likes ? 
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Andrew
>-- 
>Andrew Bangs, Network Engineering Team Leader, Demon Internet Ltd
>[email protected]    http://www.demon.net/   http://www.demon.nl/
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