Re: CAT5 Extenders??

["Powell Andy / AMS" <andy.powell@xxxxxxx>]

> 300PCs with the controls 300m away?  Where's this, a prison or
It will be when I'm finished [que: uncontrolable manic laugher  a la mad
scientist trying to take over the world)

> something?  Isn't there an easier way?

> A network with dumb workstations would probably do all you need (I was
only
> half-joking about XFree86), but if you've already got the 300PCs, that
> would be costly too.  And if you're using all of them at once, that
could
> be a lot of bandwidth

> Nigel (trying very hard to work out what on earth Andy is planning...)
>
.... Ok are we sitting comforatbly? then I'll begin..

A little background to get ya'll started:

We run 3 distinct and physically separate networks with varing levels of
security: The first (or last - depends on your priorities ;-) ) is the
Internet network, lower security (when compared with the others). The
second
is more secure, and the third is mega paranoid land with encryption comming
out of our ears.

What this means is that each user has 3 PCs at their desk  That's 3 network
connections (plus a Cybex Serview - for 1 Keyboard/mouse/monitor shared),
it's also 3 Pc cases that have to live somewhere - usually under the desk.
The number of times I'll bashed my knees! The users have no access to any
floppy or CD rom drive on their system. The idea is to move the existing
pcs
into a secure environment and use 1 cat5 connection to link thier
monitor/mouse/keyboard/audio to the switchbox (in the computer room) It
means that some $%^&$% can't just plug into one of the wall sockets and
hack
the network. It frees up 2 cat 5 connections  for phones etc - and means
that the officees don't need the airco on all the time.

Maybe this goes a little way to explaining what I'm after...


Andy





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