| 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 |
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The Oct. 12 version of Communications week has an article which states
that "the University of New Hampshire has unveiled an evaluation
program it hopes will help users identify FDDI products that
interoperate."
Other quotes are as follows:
"The FDDI certification will begin in January, said Barry Reinhold,
director of the university's Interoperability Lab, Durham, N.H.".
"The upcoming certification procedures follow tests of about 50 FDDI
products the lab conducted this summer."
My questions are as follows:
1. Were DEC's FDDI products tested? Some? All?
2. If not, does DEC care to a part of this independent interoperability
testing?
Regards,
Mark
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| 771.1 | Partial answer to your UNH question | LEVERS::B_CRONIN | Wed Dec 09 1992 12:58 | 18 | |
Hi Mark,
These are two different efforts at UNH. The summer one is not for
"certification", but the new one is.
This new effort will charge about $10k per product to offer a test
report on the tested product. I am not sure right now if the test
results will be available to anyone who askes, or only from the person
who paid for the test. There will however be a marking program which
will say some thing such as " on this day, with these tests, and these
other products in the ring, product ABC received a grade of XYZ" or
something similar to that.
I do not yet know what products will be submitted, but it is probable
that there will be market pressure to do so. When we have more on this,
we'll try to let you know.
Bill
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