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I just read a rather compelling article about installing Fiber
cabling in new installations and using the 10 Base-F standard for
Ethernet. I am part of a "State-of-the-art" manufacturing facility
project and would like to investigate using 10 Base-F in our
facility.  (I realize this is an FDDI group but I figured people
who read this group probably know a little bit about fiber LANS.)

Anyone out there using this or the older FOIRL  (????) technology?

I am especially interested in suppliers of NICs (both 16 and 32 bit),
Fiber hubs, cabling and connectors, etc.  I'm going to put together a
comparison with 10 Base-T and 10 Base-2 in terms of cost,
installation and performance.  I'd also like to compare this with the cost
of an FDDI lan.  I will summarize my results to the net if I get enough
responses.

BTW, we will be using Novell Netware as the NOS so the boards should
come with IPX/SPX drivers.

Thanks in advance.


Rich Holowczak
Rutgers University
Industrial Engineering