FDDI, was: Re: [rescue] u2 drive trays

[Tim H.]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 03:17:41 -0400
Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday, August 20, 2003, at 03:13 AM, vance at neurotica.com wrote:
> >>>>    Not as common as SC<->MIC, it seems.  That's the only problem.
> >>>> Many SC<->SC cables are for GigE and FibreChannel...and are
> >50/125>>> fiber. FDDI uses 62.5/125 fiber.
> >>>
> >>> I don't know where you've got that information from, but we're 
> >>> running
> >>> 62.5/125 fiber on just about everything, except FibreChannel only,
> >>> which use 50/125.
> >>
> >>    But what *else* are you running over fiber?  The only
> >applications> I've seen for fiber in recent years are GigE,
> >FibreChannel, and FDDI.> (I'm not a telecom guy)
> >
> > What about 100Base-FX?
> 
>    Does anyone actually *use* that?
> 
>       -Dave
> 
> --
> Dave McGuire                 "You don't have Vaseline in Canada?"
> St. Petersburg, FL                     -Bill Bradford
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Little late getting in on this thread, classes at school have resumed,
but at my last place of employment we had 100bFX to the desktop in most
parts of the company near me. I don't know about the locations out of
state/country.  We upgraded from 10Mbit fiber to 100 while I was there.

Tim