| 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 support the Los Angeles Government District. Part of my work is with the Aerospace primes and their involvement in large projects they bid to the government. It is my understanding that we currently do not support the XMI FDDI adaptor under ULTRIX for the 9000. I also understand that we do not intend to provide this support ?!?@?##$?!! This is seriously impacting our attempts to get 9000's spec'd into several large program bids. Anybody out there have a better story or any input ? Bob Pace
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| 237.1 | go to the source... | KONING::KONING | Lietuva laisva! | Mon Apr 15 1991 20:29 | 3 |
I'd suggest you take this up directly with product management.
paul
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| 237.2 | Try NSC (Hyperchannel) | CUJO::CASE | Let Your Keyboard do the walking... | Wed Apr 17 1991 20:23 | 11 |
I hate to resort to third party suppliers, but I followed this up recently and got the "No plans to support" message. It just reinforces to me that Ultrix on VAX is not a "strategic" offering - very limited investment in enhancements. We've been configuring a VAX 6000/Ultrix based solution here for a customer using NSC. They previously marketed the proprietary Hyperchannel interfaces and software; now they provide FDDI connections for the interfaces, and support of their own NETEX protocols, as well as TCP/IP. The connection is a BI card, but I've been told it can run at up to 64 Mb/s. Don't yet have any real-life thruput info. Give your local NSC rep a call, or send me mail and I can fax you what I've received from them. | |||||
| 237.3 | KONING::KONING | Lietuva laisva! | Thu Apr 18 1991 18:53 | 6 | |
No... please... talk to product management. Just because a position of
"no support planned" was taken some time ago doesn't mean that product
management won't listen to the voice of reason (a.k.a., the voice of
customer orders).
paul
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