By the time I was doing the work the tech was already starting to get old. That particular job was kind of amazing. It was a giant distribution center with something like 3 miles of conveyor belts and the distributed Linux operating system worth one OS ran across 20 nodes.
We hired a contractor to come in and put fiber. But it was back when fiber was very unforgiving the project took forever to get turned up. They broke about as much as they ran. To be honest I’m not really sure why they bothered with the fiber, All the long distance runs in the warehouse we’re already overkill at 10 megabit.
For the most part they were just talking to an HP 3000 at serial speeds. All the office PCs and printers that needed better than 100 meg work condensed up in the front and could easily run on Ethernet.
That does sound cool, it must have been pretty labor intensive. How long do you remember these things being used before they were phased out?
By the time I was doing the work the tech was already starting to get old. That particular job was kind of amazing. It was a giant distribution center with something like 3 miles of conveyor belts and the distributed Linux operating system worth one OS ran across 20 nodes.
We hired a contractor to come in and put fiber. But it was back when fiber was very unforgiving the project took forever to get turned up. They broke about as much as they ran. To be honest I’m not really sure why they bothered with the fiber, All the long distance runs in the warehouse we’re already overkill at 10 megabit.
For the most part they were just talking to an HP 3000 at serial speeds. All the office PCs and printers that needed better than 100 meg work condensed up in the front and could easily run on Ethernet.