Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!ron From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: net.lan Subject: Re: Who uses the ProNET ring ? Message-ID: <8211@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Sun, 10-Feb-85 21:55:56 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.8211 Posted: Sun Feb 10 21:55:56 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 02:46:53 EST References: <247@riv05.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 21 > We are considering the installation of Proteon's 10MB token ring. > The boards will go into VAX 750's, PDP11/70's, and later possibly > also PDP11/73's, ALTOS 986's and IBM PC/AT's. > > Is there anyone out there with arguments in favor / against this ? > Does anyone have information about reliability, performance, and > service ? There appear to be only a small number of sites at this > end of the ocean, and we cannot afford specialized network personnel > just to keep a LAN running. > > We would be very grateful to receive any suggestions and comments > on this, and hope to reach the land of tokens, packets, and datagrams > without too many problems ... > Yours truly, > Jean-Claude Wippler > ...!mcvax!riv04!jc We use the Pronet. One of the major factors for us was the speed and the ability to use fiber optics as a transmission medium. We just installed it and use it. We've had no problems except one UNIBUS board that was dead on arrival and cheerfully replaced by Proteon. We're standing in line for the first of their 80mb boards now.