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Re: WANcontroller 720

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From: Matt Thomas
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1992 23:12
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In article <1992Jun26.112855.3399@arizona.edu>, leonard@telcom.arizona.edu (Aaron Leonard) writes:
|>In article <9206261528.AA07372@enet-gw.pa.dec.com>, price@mrktng.enet.dec.com ("Dave Price, UNIX
|>Press Relation writes:
|>
|>|      A new TURBOchannel option developed by Digital, the DEC 
|>| WANcontroller 720 synchronous communications controller, reduces 
|>| costs by taking advantage of the faster throughput possible with the
|>| TURBOchannel I/O interconnect, which operates at up to 100 Megabytes
|>| per second. 
|>
|>How fast can this thing go?  T1 (1.5Mb? 2Mb?) T3 (45Mb)?

It's a dual T1/E1 card.  Depending on the system driving it, it's been pushed
at more than 1000 pps (128 byte packets) using X.25.  Nice card

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