| I'm not a product person, but let me give you a perspective. Digital's
long range plan is to implement PCI/EISA on all systems. XMI is
proprietary. I don't expect us to spend engineering dollars to build
another interface for XMI to get DAS for it. I expect you'll have to
wait to get PCI on the new high-end system and a PCI FDDI adapter which
should be SAS, DAS or UTP.
This is where you'll get it.
Remember, DAS is for dual-homing and to weather concentrator failure.
If the customer wants to weather controller failure, DAS won't help.
You should sell him 2 controllers. So given this, why does the customer
want DAS?
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| >>I'm not a product person, but let me give you a perspective. Digital's
>>long range plan is to implement PCI/EISA on all systems. XMI is
>>proprietary. I don't expect us to spend engineering dollars to build
>>another interface for XMI to get DAS for it. I expect you'll have to
>>wait to get PCI on the new high-end system and a PCI FDDI adapter which
>>should be SAS, DAS or UTP.
PCI is the strategic bus for the company, but I don't know whether it
is PCI bundle with EISA, ISA, or some other bus. For info on the PCI
FDDI adapter and futures, contact the PM - George (DELNI::G_NIELSEN)
Nielsen.
>>Remember, DAS is for dual-homing and to weather concentrator failure.
>>If the customer wants to weather controller failure, DAS won't help.
>>You should sell him 2 controllers. So given this, why does the customer
>>want DAS?
DAS allows for dual homing to cover for a failure in a concentrator, or
one of the fiber optic lines, or if the B port happens to go dead on
the adapter. Also, you can set up a DAS network configuration without
the use of any concentrators.
- Larry
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