Integrating a Symmetry into a "Not So Local'' Area Network

A recent expansion of Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) forces an entire division, some 400 employees, to move to new facilities approximately three miles from the main ANL campus. This division is highly dependent upon computing and networking facilities at ANL which were not to be duplicated at the new facility. A Sequent Symmetry S-81 is one of the computers which remained at ANL. This paper describes the network used to access the ANL computers, including the S-81, from the new facility.