Re: is there a market for this?

[Bob Oyler <oyler () ixks com>]

Check out www.sdlcomm.com, I believe they have a HSSI card for a PCI bis

At 03:47 PM 7/23/97 +0100, Andrew Bangs wrote:
> Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > As for the other implication, although I personally don't run or
> > intend to run networks using normal unix boxes as routers (and BTW,
> > PCI bus covers Power-PC hardware, Alphas and soon Suns, too!), I know of
> > organizations like Demon in the U.K. that run almost exclusively this
> > way and seem to like it a lot.
>
> UK and Netherlands :-)
>
> They seem to work well as routers with ethernet, fast ethernet and
> fddi, and we make quite a bit of use of the ZNYX multi-port ethernet
> cards where we need higher port density. 
>
> We ended up buying a non-PC router when we wanted a HSSI connection
> somewhere. Has anyone found a nice HSSI-PCI card that has support
> in any of the BSD-a-likes ? 
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Andrew
> -- 
> Andrew Bangs, Network Engineering Team Leader, Demon Internet Ltd
> andrewb () demon net    http://www.demon.net/   http://www.demon.nl/