| 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 |
I am trying to help plan a network configuration involving the
future connection of a set of either Stratus or Tandem systems with
the Fault Tolerant VAX, with the connection including an FDDI
backbone.
When the FDDI product set begins to ship, what recommendations would
Digital expect to make regarding the protocol to connect the
other-vendor systems with the FTVAX (which would be running VMS).
Thankyou,
Dave Smith
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| 53.1 | Ethernet, not FDDI | AKO569::JOY | Get a life! | Fri Apr 13 1990 14:43 | 10 |
Dave,
I don't think FDDI is the way to go here. Not only are we not
currently building an FDDI adapter for the ftVAX, but neither Stratus
or Tandem have announced any FDDI products for their systems. Ethernet
is the only physical connection that all three support and at the
higher levels, probably TCP/IP (although Stratus has some version of
DECnet for their machines, don't know about Tandem though).
Debbie
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| 53.2 | One => no choice | SDSVAX::SWEENEY | Patrick Sweeney in New York | Fri Apr 13 1990 16:20 | 3 |
To answer the question directly, the FDDI protocol _is_ the multi-vendor
ANSI FDDI protocol, there's just one for everyone and no choice to be
made.
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