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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

968.0. "Hub-based 100/10 bridge?" by VAXRIO::ROLF (Vaporware Design Specialist) Tue May 25 1993 14:35

    Several customers keep asking us for a "hub-based" 100/10 bridge.
    
    I see up to now no intention for such a product to be made by DEC, 
    not even in the DECHUB900 product set.
    
    In an old note I see a reference to CABLETRON announcing such a
    product late last year. Is this available yet? Do we know of any
    other vender having such a solution?
    
    Rolf
    EIS Brazil

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
968.1	Brouters not bvridges	CSOA1::SEITZ	The system is a Network	`Tue May 25 1993 15:25`	10
	In talking with my customers, standard bridges are dead. What everyone wants are Brouters. I'm working with two customers right now planning on buying separate boxes to provide brouter capabilities for their mixed FDDI/Ethernet networks. A bridge in a hub is nice but most customers today don't believe bridges provide them the control they need. Also, most bridges cost the same as a BRouter. Mike
968.2		KONING::KONING	Paul Koning, A-13683	`Wed May 26 1993 15:41`	4
	Such a bridge (or rather, as .1 points out, a BRouter) is very definitely planned, and work is well underway. paul
968.3	Thanks	VAXRIO::ROLF	Vaporware Design Specialist	`Thu May 27 1993 10:18`	3
	Thanks Paul for the good news! Do we have an aproximate timeframe? Rolf
968.4		KONING::KONING	Paul Koning, A-13683	`Thu May 27 1993 11:05`	4
	I'm not sure what information we have available at this point. Talk to Shou Lee, DELNI::S_LEE. paul
968.5	would personal ethernet help here?	PERE::BRUCE		`Thu Jun 03 1993 14:08`	4
	i thought this was a lot of the idea behind the personal ethernet strategy. but i am still not clear what the product roll-out of this either
968.6		KONING::KONING	Paul Koning, A-13683	`Thu Jun 03 1993 18:02`	3
	Yes, that's what I was referring to. Again, talk to Shou. paul