MLUG: Re: [MLUG] SAN, NAS, External Drive Arrays
Re: [MLUG] SAN, NAS, External Drive Arrays
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On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Michael wrote:

> Did you mean signal loss in fiber optic is far less than in copper? (Just
> guessing, I'm not an expert in fiber optics by any means.) If so then that
> explanation makes a lot of sense. Should I assume it'd be possible to mix
> a network between copper and fiber just by adding the right switches?

Er, yeah.  You know what I mean. :)

Lots of places do have copper gig-e in a server room (or to the desktop),
then fiber for the backbone.  Fiber also provides an easy upgrade path
to future technologies.

--dlloyd


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