| Title: | FDDI - The Next Generation |
| Moderator: | NETCAD::STEFANI |
| Created: | Thu Apr 27 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2259 |
| Total number of notes: | 8590 |
Being involved in testing VAXclusters, especially I/O, my primary interest in FDDI is how does it relate to VAXclusters. Do you see a major benefit in using FDDI in VAXclusters? Where/how do you see it being used? To act as a switch between Ethernet-FDDI bridges? As a CPU to CPU interconnect? As a workstation interconnect? As a replacement for CI? Not at all? What kinds of products to you think we should be offering in the area of VAXcluster and FDDI? FDDI HSCs? Q-bus FDDI adapters? FDDI LAT servers?
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| 10.1 | KONING::KONING | NI1D @FN42eq | Mon Oct 09 1989 18:45 | 6 | |
All of those applications in VAXclusters sound sensible. FDDI LAT servers? Qbus FDDI adapters?? Both of them seem to be cases where the bandwidth of FDDI doesn't match at all. paul | |||||
| 10.2 | FDDI should make a great Cluster interconnect | HYEND::BLYONS | VAXcluster SASE | Tue Jan 02 1990 15:51 | 21 |
Some random thoughts: The CI is expensive and the NI can be very limited in bandwidth, FDDI has great potential. We will need multiple FDDI adaptors to replace the CI in customer installations and have no noticable performance impact. If the price of the FDDI interface is close to the price of an NI interface then we have a new migrate path for LAVc configurations. FDDI LATs will allow a customer to avoid having two communications backbones strung around the building(s). >What kinds of products to you think we should be offering in the area of >VAXcluster and FDDI? FDDI HSCs? Q-bus FDDI adapters? FDDI LAT servers? All of the above will have a market. It's just a mater of time till someone offers such products... Bob L. | |||||