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Conference 7.286::fddi

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

197.0. "Marketing Contacts?" by 58437::HARROP (Ring those phones!!!) Fri Jan 25 1991 13:37

    My name is Ian Harrop and I am the Account Manager for the provincial
    telephone company in Saskatchewan, Canada (SaskTel).

    My customer is looking to provide FDDI services to clients by
    implementing a dual ring around the city.  I understand that this has
    been done before by Centel in Florida and have a call into the Account
    Manager in Tallahassee (Dan Steinmetz) to find out exactly what was
    done there and how.

    In the meantime it would be very helpful if readers of this conference
    could provide names of those involved in the marketing end of FDDI.
    I really want to arrange for a knowledgeable speaker to visit my
    account and present on FDDI.

    Thanks in advance for any help offered.  Responses here will be
    monitored or you can contact me directly.

    Ian Harrop		VMSmail CGOA01::HARROP
    			ALLIN1  Ian Harrop @RZO
    			Telephone (306) 584-5950    ... no DTN here!

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
197.1		KONING::KONING	NI1D @FN42eq	`Fri Jan 25 1991 15:37`	6
	Are you sure that has been done by anyone? It sounds fishy. FDDI is a LAN and not a MAN. The key issue is security: if you put two companies on the same FDDI, then each will be able to see all the messages on the ring, including those belonging to the other. paul
197.2	Centel is doing it now!	CGOA02::HARROP	Ring those phones!!!	`Fri Jan 25 1991 16:11`	11
	This has been done. For your reading pleasure look at Communications Week (December 10/90: pg 2-con't pg56). It says in part.... "Centel is offering a tariffed metropolitan area network based on the Fiber Distributed Data Interface standard.... It specifically mentions Digital products, purchase costs, and maintenance costs for customers to connect to the ring.
197.3	DON'T USE CENTEL AS REFERENCE!	CGOO01::HARROP	Ring those phones!!!	`Fri Feb 01 1991 11:17`	7
	Don't use the Centel experience as a reference. I talked with Carl Steinmetz and there were major problems with non-standard fiber size being installed and hence problems with the net. Apparently Centel even had to retract some of the marketing hype they put out.
197.4	Single Mode FDDI products	DELNI::WARTER		`Mon Feb 04 1991 00:29`	8
	We have just announced FDDI single mode support which is critical for this application. The current Feb. '91 Sales Update has an article on it. If you have any further questions let me know. Jamie Warter DEFCN Product Manager DELNI::WARTER 226-5892
197.5	SaskTel is not alone in their folly	DELNI::GOLDSTEIN	At the risk of seeming ridiculous...	`Tue Feb 05 1991 12:22`	11
	Supposedly the DeutcheBundesPost is playing with this too. Of course, it can't use an 802.1 bridge, since the bridge has to be talco property which blocks by default rather than passes by default. And it probably means that every subscriber LAN address has to be given to the phone company so they can program it into the bridge. Of course telephone companies (especially ones who speak German!) love to poke around customers' private business that way. 802.6 (DQDB) was specifically designed for telco use. FDDI was designed for LAN use. You figure it out.