Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!hellgate.utah.edu!basset.utah.edu!haas From: haas%basset.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Walt Haas) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: broadband high speed networking between buildings Message-ID: <1989Sep22.194606.21917@hellgate.utah.edu> Date: 23 Sep 89 01:46:06 GMT References: <2440@dogie.macc.wisc.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: University of Utah CS Dept Lines: 16 Well, to add my $0.02 worth to this debate,... We have both broadband and fiber and are expanding both. If *all* you want is Ethernet connectivity over moderate distances by all means put in fiber. Where broadband has the advantage is that it lets us distribute eight or so instructional TV channels, four kinds of data channel, and controllable security cameras for the University police, everywhere on campus with one installation. The down side is the substantial cost of adding an Ethernet onto the broadband. Even in buildings where we have broadband already we frequently pull fiber for Ethernet if there is a relatively short hop to an existing Ethernet. The cost of the fiber extension runs around $4k, the broadband approach probably at least twice that. -- Walt Haas haas@cs.utah.edu utah-cs!haas