Gigabit Ethernet WHY???

[SocrPlyr]

well just so you guys know the media converters sell for $375 on campus... so i don't think that would be a good way to go...

Josh

 

[Buddha Bart]

I just thought of another thing....

VNC, Netmeeting, Remote Desktop Sharing, Exporting X-sessions...

They'll all fly like you're sitting right there at the computer.

bart

 

[Sukhoi]

Originally posted by: SocrPlyr
Sukhoi
Are you kidding me? Their internet connections is a very large one much greater than 155Mbps... that was the speed of their old ATM speeds to the desktop (being replaced this year by the gigabit). I highly doubt the whole university has only 155Mbps, because they are a founding partner (or something like that) of the Internet2... the go straight into that backbone provided by OARnet if i remember correctly... anyways i don't thing that is right, the connection for any college would be pretty choked if they only had 155Mbps...

Turtleman and Mobogasm
you both must be "tripping" cuz you didn't even read my post... if you did it would be obvious to you that we are using fiber gigabit cards that are intended for server use (they only come in 64bit/66MHz, altho they run on 32bit/33MHz just fine)

Update about my situation.
The school decided to sell the cards at their cost to the students (at least for a while) they are going for $181, which isn't too bad...
but i bought a used one off of egay for $66 shipped 2Day and it works great... so i am thinking of asking around but most people bought theirs already...

Josh

When I was at a session on CWRUnet last winter I believe the guy said they had an OC-12 campus backbone (622 Mbps) and a 155 Mbps internet connection. He didn't mention anything about Internet2.

The University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign (where I'm going) supposedly has ~100 Mbps total, and not all of that is available to the ResNet. Hopefully it won't be real slow.

 

[SocrPlyr]

Sukhoi
that was before their latest upgrade this summer... they spent millions over the summer to get everything upgraded...
just to let you know...
what you are talking about was what i mentioned before cuz 155Mbps is the OC3 i mentioned before...
when i get some free time i'll ask what the actual net connection and interbuilding hops are....

Josh

 

[Sukhoi]

Cool, I'm interested to hear what they have everything running at now.

 

[spidey07]

Interswitch links are most certainly gigabit, multi-gig (1-16) or if they're bleeding edge 10 Gig ethernet.

Where they do routing as in "hops" can happen anywhere and is dependant on the number of people per access/distribution closet and number of VLANs.