Conference 7.286::fddi

    Hello there!
    
    I'm Mike Holland from INDEC Area Support (Customer Services) in CXO3.
    
    My interests/concerns around FDDI are mainly focused on the support
    (internally) of FDDI products that DEC produces. 

    
    I'm Dennis Faust. I'm  Network Planning Consultant in Philadelphia,
    trying to design networks that will fill todays needs, but will
    migrate easily to FDDI. I also need to be conversant in FDDI to
    help my customers plan for the future.
                       
    Dennis L. Faust	PHH
    DTN 328-4352

Hi,
Im Simon Jackson from the UK. I work as a consultant for Information Services 
in the UK and have been looking in to implimenting FDDI within our facility
in Reading. I am interested in all aspects of FDDI both in migration from
current LANs and in futures beyond FDDI.

Cheers Simon

    How does this conference relate to the FIBER_OPTIC_LANS Notes
    Conference recently created on DELNI?
    
    My guess is that this one will be more practical and deal with more
    nuts-n-bolts issues, but thought I'd ask anyway...
    
    					Chris Brienen
                                        (avid ETHERNET Conference reader)

    Hello:
    
    John Reed @CBO
    Senior Informations Systems Specialist = NPC
    Serving the Carolina's (that's North and South)
    DTN: 367-6463
    
    DIGITAL Employee since 1980.   I am interested in the World of F.D.D.I
    to help my customers install networks that won't be trashed in two
    years !!  I have been trying to design 62.5 fiber networks for a
    few years now.
    
    
    JR
    
                                                           
    
    
    

Hi...


Tony Papparides
830-6275

LAN Consultant for Information Services based in Dec Park, Reading , UK.
Servicing the UK Regional offices on all aspects of LAN's.
Currently trying to get to grips with  FDDI and offer our users some migration
guidelines and topologies.

Its really great to see this conference

Tony

    Mike Saunders
    Network Planning Consultan
    Western Area
    Northwest District (Seattle, etc.)
    Currently on a factory automation project for Boeing.
    
    DEC - 12.5 yrs.
    
    Networks - 4 yrs.
    
    

Michael Pettengill - CVG, Salem NH, NIO

I've been involved in highend comm A/D and testing in one way or another for
about five years.  Current focus is high end VAXcluster system I/O.

    Mike Seitz @OHF
    ECA Network Planning Consultant
    
    I'm interested in all network products and services which will impact
    the needs of customers. FDDI is one piece of a very large puzzle.
    

    Richard Merewood, mgr. VMS, DECnet-VAX, VAXcluster, POSIX.

    Hello,
    
    Luis Burgos @MXO
    Network Support for Mexico = NPC
    Designing today's networks for tomorrow needs.
    
    Glad to know of the opening of this conference, rigth on time. 

    Regards.

    Hello
    
    I'm Bob Partridge from IN-DEC Area Support (Customer Services) 
    Located in IND. 
    
    Interest and concerns re FDDI, for internal support of FDDI products
    that DEC produces.
    
    Bob
    

    Hello,
    
    I am Bob DiCastro, I am an engineer/proj. manager for
    Customer Services. I would like to gain a broader un-
    derstanding of fiber optic technology as it relates to 
    FDDI at the "second window" (1300 nm).
    
                                          cheers/bob

    Hi
    
    Jim Fahey "EX" F/S NPC now SWS Network Consultant. Been with DEC 13+
    years, been networking computers since 1968 (oh my god that's 21
    years!! but then of course I was a child prodigy  ;-) ). My role in the
    sales district is that of "physical media expert". (Fiber, coax twisted
    pair etc). I anticipate great interest from our customers in FDDI.
    
    Jim 

Paul Koning
distributed systems architecture

In particular, I work on the FDDI architecture(s), and on the ANSI standard
for FDDI.

    Dave Waterman
    Software Engineer
    Mid-Range Systems Evaluation Engineering
    
    I develop the software that is used in the MSEE evaluation of prototype
    LAN and WAN interfaces.
    

    Paul Callahan
    FDDI Marketing
    
    I've spent the last year being a professional pain in the ass about
    IBM Token Ring...now I get to say something positive for a change.

    I'm Debbie Joy, Network Consultant for GIA SWS in Acton, Ma. I'm also
    the GIA ANC and the FDDI Capability Manager for GIA. If you're a GIA
    network person and you need info about FDDI, please contact me.
    

Im Larry Wakeman, a Network Sales Support Specialist in San Francisco

My interest in FDDI comes from customers beating me about the head and
shoulders about when DEC will have FDDI products.

    I'm David Gagne from VMS Development.  Linda Duffell, Bill Salkewicz,
    and I work on the Ethernet drivers in the DECnet-VAX group within VMS.
    
    We have been meeting with the FDDI adapter group to assist in their
    design of the adapter/host interface.  We will be writing the VMS
    driver for all FDDI adapters to be supported by VMS.  Our goal is
    to make the interface to the drivers be very similar to the Ethernet
    drivers' interface.  It should be so similar that applications using
    Ethernet should only need to add the FDDI device name to the
    application code and it should work on FDDI.

    Hi,
    
    I am Patrick Grossetete for France Country Support.
    I'll support future FDDI products for France.
    

G'day,

I'm Shelly Speer and I run the NWSS Expertise centre in SPR. I always had a 
fascination with Optics and I'm glad that FDDI has been the catalyst for 
all of the Fibre work being done by many.

Hi, I'm	full time pre-sales and part time network consultant here in London,
Ontario, Canada.  I've been in networks for 10 years, and 3 years at DEC.
I'm working on a 2500 PC network at London Life Insurance, who are postponing
going with fibre-optics due to the high cabling cost.

---Chris	

    
    			-< Greetings from the Southwest >-
    
    Name:	Ray Wilson
    Position:	Southwest District Network Support (SWS)
    Location:	Phoenix(Tempe), Arizona
    
    Currently getting many requests for information on FDDI and 
    Digital's direction/strategy. The introduction of this note
    conference is very timely indeed.
    
    Later,
    
    Ray
    
    
    

        My name is B.J. Herbison.  I work in the Secure Systems group,
        working on communication security architectures.  I worked on
        the development of the Ethernet Enhanced-Security System and I
        am currently developing the next generation of communication
        security architectures.  An FDDI security product is one of the
        things I am looking at.

        					B.J.

    Jon Levy
    
    NaC Services Development for FDDI

    Faraday Chong
    
    Network Consultant and ANC for Far East region in GIA.
                               

    Patrick Chevaux, working on customer projects, Nice, France. Used
    to be a network person. Still interested in transmission technologies
    as a hobby. Could very well convince the local authorities to set-up
    a (several) FDDI ring(s) in the Valbonne area.

    Paul Knight, working with several of the large single-site networks
    and multi-Area customers around the country (USA only so far, but
    I'm open for international networks as well...).  I've been doing
    FDDI consulting for several customers in a pre-sales role, so I'm
    glad to see this forum opening up.

    Hello,
    
    Patrick Dornan, Network & Sites Services, Sales Support Specialist
    GRANMA::PDORNAN, @EKO, 8-339-7169.
    
    I support Sales in MARVA District, MAA (or whatever it's called
    now).  Telcom, Commercial, and what used to be General Business
    accounts.
    
    I'm high in fiber.
    
    Patrick

    Ren� Aungier, Site Telecoms Manager, Ferney-Voltaire, France.
    
    I am responsible for all Network/Telecoms here both software and
    hardware, planning, installation etc.
    
    Ren�

    Steve Skonetski  Merrimack, N.H.
    Lan Box Product Diagnostic and Firmware (ROM based) support

    Hello,
    
    Here's Per Dahl from the Swedish ACT in Stockholm in the snowy
    Sweden.
    
    My interest is to learn about FDDI for presales.
                           
    -Per
    

	Dave Barron
	Network engineer.
	NETCo Dev, VANS, 
	Newbury, England.
	DTN - 444-6067.
I am intrested in all aspects of LAN topology and any futures that could be
of use in our own extended LAN. 

Regards.

I'm Thomas Jaeger working with the SD&ES Solution Integration Center in Munich
W. Germany.

My interest in FDDI comes from the Imaging part of my work which is in the
Technical Documentation Area.

DECnet-ULTRIX.

I'll be modifying things like LAT to work over FDDI for ULTRIX.

Graham Cobb, WACE, Reading.

I am  the software project leader for the new Hastings router.  The Hastings
program  is  intended  to  include  FDDI  interconnect  so guess who will be
writing the software...

Re: .37.   By  the  way,  my  node  is  MARVIN::,  not  ENET51::.   The node
database on this system is a long way out of date.

Graham

    Steve Schwartz
    Network Applications Team
    Artificial Intelligence Applications Group
    DLB5-2/B4
    291-8201
    
    I'm working on the LANALYST project: network fault diagnosis using AI
    technologies.  I want to know how FDDI networks operate, what can go
    wrong with them, how to manage them.

    
    Gerard ZITTA
    Network operations support.
    ETTS (European Telecom Technical Support)
    Valbonne
    828-5657
    

    Scott Stuart
    
    Network Sales Support in the Maryland Virginia (MARVA) 
    commercial district.
    

    Bob Grover
    Colorado Springs CXO3
    NETsupport/WAIS group
    
    My interest in FDDI stems from my support of customers who are or
    soon will be extremely interested in the technology. I need to know
    as much about the technology as possible to enable me to support
    and answer questions of these customers.
    
    I have been involved in networking for approximately 18 years. I
    have been with DEC for 8.5 years (all of which have been within
    the networking space).
    

    ROGER SWENSON
    
    NETWORK SALES SUPPORT IN CHICAGO
    
    I help convince our customers they should buy FDDI from DEC.

    I'm Christopher Raczka
    ULTRIX Sales Support in the Great Lakes District
    
    Haven't heard enough about FDDI yet to answer my customers
    questions...so I've been perusing this notesfile hoping
    to glean some info
    

                        
	I'm Paul Ciarfella from Communications Systems Engineering at
	Taylor Street, Littleton.  I am one of three engineers working on 
	DEC's implementation of ANSI's FDDI Station Management (SMT) standard, 
	which we call the Common Node Software (CNS).  

	CNS                                              

	o  is designed for easy portability and incorporation into any future 
	   product which needs physical and logical connectivity to the FDDI 
	   ring via the DEC/Motorolla chipset.
        o  manages the FDDI PHY and MAC levels, participating in PHY and
           MAC level connection management between two physical stations.
        o  participates in SMT frame-based management protocols throughout 
           the logical ring.

	Two major goals of CNS are

	1. FDDI multivendor interoperability - this is a must for DEC's FDDI
	   products to succeed in the marketplace
	2. Easy portability so that new products will not have to 
	   'reinvent the wheel', or in this case, reimplement the SMT software. 
	   New products should be designed to incorporate the CNS software to 
	   manage their connections to the ring.


    

I am Joe Bowker. I work for the VAXcluster SASE systems group.

My primary interest in FDDI concerns it's potential use in VAXclusters.

Joe

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    Stratos Sarissamlis
    Networking Technology Consultant
    EIS/ITADNCC, Italy
    
    I am glad someone thought of bringing up this conference. I wish
    it was around in early 1987 when I designed one of the first
    FDDI backbone networks (interconnecting Ethernet LANs to single
    and multimode fiber)......
    
    

    Bill Salkewicz
    
    DECnet-VAX Development
    
    I will most likely be involved in writing and maintaining FDDI device
    drivers for VMS. I am also personally interested in any new comms
    technology.
    
    

    Hello!
    
    I'm John Case, Sales Support for networking (DNT) in Denver.  We have
    several customers in this area interested in FDDI and high-speed
    technologies, particularly in the inter-connection of 802.3, 802.5,
    FDDI, and potentially, 802.6/SMDS.

Hi,

I am a member of the Eastern Mass District Network Team. I am interested in 
the basic FDDI technology and configuration guidelines.

Happy New Year,

Rob

    HI,
    
    I'm a project manager with Network Systems Group in NH. I'm interested
    in FDDI technology in general.
    
    

    
    	Massimo Rovelli @GOZ
    	SWAS-Network Consultant
    	ACT Finance & Services
    	MLN01::ROVELLI
    	Milan - Italy
    
    				Ciao.

    
    
    Robert Noone, I work in European External Resources in Dublin, Ireland.
    
    I'm interested in getting some European silicon for FDDI products.
    
    

    My name is Dennis Cheetham,I work in the Base Technology unit in EIS
    (used to be SWAS) in Warrington U.K. I specialise in network issues 
    with some emphasis on LAN's
    
                         Dennis Cheetham
    

I'm Kenji Izutani, Business Development for Region(Japan) NWSS. I'm interested 
in the F.O. cable plant for FDDI/Ethernet.

Mail(A1) Kenji Izutani@TKT
Phone 81-6-449-6210
Regards,

    Al Licause, Network Sales Support for the DuPont Corporate Team out of
    Wilmington, Delaware.
    
    If they can get it to work over single mode fiber, FDDI will be very
    big in DuPont and if we can beat the others to market or at least be
    there when they are, we can do a lot to provide the hardware to do it!
    

    Hi ,
    	I'm Cees van der Leeuw lacoted at the JGO plant in Nijmegen
    ,the Netherlands.
    I'm looking at the FDDI projects from a repair point of view.
    The repair organisation has to be prepared for this new kind of
    technology and that's where I fit in.
    Also a very happy 1990 to all people out there.
    	Regards - Cees

    Hi,
    
    I'm Rob Figler.  I work in the Government Systems Group in Merrimack,
    NH as an EE. I have accepted the opportunity to become GSG's Engineering 
    'expert' (I use that term loosely!) on FDDI for possible use in the 
    TEMPEST product set.  I need to get up to speed on the technical aspects of 
    FDDI, as well as what products are under development at DEC today.  
    
    -rob

    Mark Davies, South Central Area ANC out of Dallas.
    

    Thomas Moroder
    864-2279 of KBOMFG::MORODER
    Network Specialist
    SIMG-E at KBO
    and Maunfacturing Plant Kaufbeuren
    
    FDDI can solve the increasing data traffic on our backbone

    
    John Pilbeam
    Site Services Specialist (I Think that is an NPC in the States)
    Melbounre Australia
    
    Your Customers are now starting to ask FDDI questions, We need to be
    able answer the question???

    
    	Al Meier
    	Systems Engineering Consultant
    	Support of Aerospace /and Secure Govt Facilities
    	Location:	Denver CO
    	Phone:		DTN 553-3240
    
    	Customer has large Ethernet network and needs higher speed
    backbone.  Also, FDDI speed required to support workstation data
    rates.
    

    Hi I'm Ed Babiarz TELCOM MGR FROM STORAGE SYSTEM SYSTEMS(SPO). I"m
    current responsible for all voice and data in this facility. I also
    provide network and voice service to a sales group(U.S.area) that
    resides in this facility.
    My intrest is in adding/changing current network configurations
    to position this facility for additional tenants, Sales,Software
    Service,Field Service,Engineering, and the possible consalidation
    of some Manufacturing Facilities with fiber.
    
    ED
    

    I'm Craig Blasingame, Network Consultant with Government System's Group
    (previously FSG) in Landover, MD.  I'm commited to the integration of
    FDDI into large government program opportunities.

    After reading Craig's intro..I guess it's my turn...
    
    I'm Rob Figler, and I too work for the Government System's Group except
    that I am located in the Engineering group here in Merrimack, NH.  My
    interest in FDDI is from a TEMPEST product point of view.  Over the
    last few weeks and in the next few months, I will be learning all I can
    about FDDI and the products that DEC is developing so that we can offer
    TEMPEST FDDI solutions to the government and/or customers that require
    data security.  I'm new to networking in general (my background is in
    Electrical design) so if my questions/comments seem trivial, bare with
    me!
    
    -rob

Hi,

     I am J.I. Wu   Software Specialist, Digital Taiwan.
We have a Fiber Optic Solution case right now running in my
support territory. I hope I can get valuable information or
any further support during coming presales events.

Regards,
JI

	Jeff LaRue
	ANC for the Mid-Atlantic Area

	I have been with Digital for 13+ years and supported networks for
	the entire time!

    Hello everybody,
    
    	I am Timmy Yung, Unit Manager of NWSS team in Hong Kong. I am
    interested in the design and implemention of FDDI network in a
    university campus. Any information and suggestion are welcome.

    
    	I am working for NaC Marketing in France, and in charge of
    	FDDI products. I convinced Schlumberger France to buy our
    	Fddi products to be used as a reference site for annoucement.
    
    	Philippe ROUX
    	EVTAI1::ROUX_P  or Philippe Roux @EVT

    Hi
    
    I work for the DECsite skill centre in Basingstoke, England. Our group
    supports the regional DECsite offices around the UK on large, cross
    regional, leading edge and/or complex projects that deal with the
    physical design and installation of networks and also environmental
    services. I have been involved with FDDI for about 9 mths and even
    assisted with a bid for Birmingham University, which unfortunately we
    did not get.
    
    Bob Billers

    Greetings:
    
    	I am an Information Systems Consultant ( old NPC ) in New York,
    and also Program Manager for Coopers and Lybrand. I have been
    designing and implementing FDDI type networks for about one year, and
    have been "in networks" for over ten years.
    
    	I guess its time I learned what I am supposed to be doing??
    
    Ta - Mike

Hi,
	I am  Sam Gentile from EIS - Network Engineering
	Hudson NH

	I work on NETconsult Workbench and other tools to support our Network 
	Consultants. We are looking at adding FDDI support in V3.0.

	Hi everybody
    
    
    Name:	Mohammad Mahloujian
    Location:	soo
		Stockholm, Sweden
    Group:	EIS (SWAS) /Telecom
    Mail:	stkhlm::Mahloujian or Mohammad Mahloujian @soo
    
    I am interested in learning about FDDI for.
    

    
    Hello,
    I'm Georges Guillaumot working in Technology, Support and Consultancy
    Group (still called AFSG few mounth ago) in VALBONNE. We are are going 
    to support FDDI and we have actually a small ring running here in Valbonne.
    
    I'm interested by any news about FDDI ,technical as well as DEC/other
    competitors positions, new sofware/firmware revision etc...
    G.G

    
    Hi
    Roger Harvey - South UK Technology Group, Nets and Telecomms Unit.
    Several of our large customers are/have been looking at what FDDI is
    and what it does for them. They're now getting serious - if the prices  
    are right !
    Hope we've got it right !

    Hallo alle Miteinander
    
    I'm Wiltrud from Germany. I'm working for SWAS.
    We've got a lot of Unsiversities which want to implement FDDI.
    
    Wiltrud Reinstaedtler @frn 785-1315

		Name:	Masami Takeuchi

		Organization: Customer Services Engineering Center
			       Japan Region (DEC Japan)

		Interests: Fiber Optic Cable Plant (DECconnect/DFON)

---Masami

    My name is David Banks, and I'm with Product Management in the Disk &
    Subsystems Group (D&SG) of Storage & Information Management (SIMG).
    
    We're starting to get questions of how storage ties in with FDDI and
    we're still looking...
    
    -  David

    Hi all,
    
    	Pete Evans Reading UK.
    I'm a pre sales support engineer dealing with most aspects of the
    DECdirect product range  in the UK.  I am responsible for putting
    customer solutions together & providing some assurance that what they
    buy will hang together & is supported.  There's a lot of interest in
    FDDI so I thought I'd beter start getting my head around it.
    
    Cheers
    		Pete.
    

    Doug Burke
    SWS Malaysia (MSA)
    Program Manager for PLUS
    
    My customer will be laying fiber-optic cable along their 800 km
    roadway.  They are considering linking all of their tool plaza VAXes
    (65 of them) with this fiber using FDDI or something similar.

    Hi,
    
    Choy Heng-Wah from Singapore EIS/SWS. I support VMS and networks
    (DNA/SNA) communications in general. I already have several queries
    from local customers, and FDDI can also become a leverage for
    workstation and systems sale.
    
    hw              
    
    re .-1
    Doug, since we in Singapore and Malaysia are so close to each other,
    perhaps we can keep each other informed of developments we can do cross
    referencing?
    
    

Hi all,
	My name is Alison Murray and I work for the PTT approvals group in
	Reading. My goal is to get PTT approval for Fibre Products in all
	those countries where it is a legal requirement for Fibre kit to be
	approved for connection to "Public " fibre (ie Fibre run by the PTT).
	At the moment there are only two countries who require approvals
	for fibre and they are only interested in loss budget, safety and
	types of RX and TX.

	Why am I interested in FDDI ??? The answer is simply that with 2km
	between stations the links could easily go into the space governed
	by PTTs. If that is the case then the kit MUST be approved !!!

	I'm currently seeking approvals on a number of the FDDI products.
	I'm sure that in the future that PTTs will start to offer a service
	which will require "protocol" testing as well as "physical" testing
	so I guess I'd better start to understand FDDI now before its too late !


Alison

    Hello 
    My name is John Layland DECdirect Technical Support Consultant,
    in the U.K. I get all the Network Qn's, and need as much information
    as possible. To ensure correct network configurations. We will be
    selling FDDI components from DECdirect.
    
    Regards John L
     

    Yen Nguyen
    
    Network Consultant
    North Texas and Oklahoma District
    DTN486-6430

    
    a new member..
    
    hello,
    I'm Robert GAILLARDON @GEO  Site Tcom mngr EHQ, Geneva (Switzerland)  
    7-821-4636
    A new building is coming up and will be equipped with FDDI..
    Any feedbacks on past experiences  are most appreciated..
    Cheers, Robert .

Eric Davison
Corporate Backbone Networks
Reading, England

I'm the Line Card Software project leader for Hastings, I'm also working on
future modules such as FDDI.

    Greetings All,
    
    FROM =============================> Arnold Davis @CBO
                                        DTN 367-6428
    
    
    I'm a NSSS in Columbia, S.C.  I cover Federal Government business for
    the Southern Region.  If it takes tooooooo long it must be Federal
    Government.

    
    
    Ray Wilson
    Phoenix, Arizona
    Network Consultant
    
    I support Sales, Sales Support and EIS throughout the Southwest US.
    The interest being expressed in faster LANs has increased dramatically
    over the past 6-12 months. Therefore I have a very intense interest in 
    FDDI as the next generation in LAN technology. 
     

Hi,
	I'm Denise Carr from VAXcluster Systems 
Engineering in Marlboro, MA.  I am responsible for 
trying to make some sense out of FDDI in VAXclusters
(like what might be some reasonable ways to configure 
things).  Wish me luck !

Denise

    Hi,
    
    I'm Gene Sullivan, manager of the LAN Certification Center here in 
    Littleton, MA (TAY2). We're making an assault on FDDI Technology so
    that we can establish an FDDI certification process similar to the
    Ethernet/802.3 certification process that we currently operate.
    
    For anyone looking for a good place to start, I recommend the Raj
    Jain, "Introduction to FDDI" video series (6-7 hours). Excellent
    presentation...and it's fun to watch. Raj keeps it lively and inter-
    esting.
    
    There are people in here that I know. And still they let me in?
    
    gene

    Hi,
    
    I'm the new Advanced Developments Manager at Reading
    (and interested in all future networking).
    
    Peter Higginson
    

	I'm Allan Ake with USNWSS Service Development and
	Delivery in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

	Been interested in Fiber Optics (and all sorts of
	networks) for quite some time now, and FDDI is a
	dynamic concept.

    
    Peter Cook, Software Engineer for VAXcluster Support Engineering. 
    I support all existing CI Repair level diagnostics.
    
    /prc

Hello!
I'm Jim Chapman. I'm new to DEC and this conference. 

I've been working with FDDI for 3 years now (since graduating), on both 
FDDI and FDDI-II research projects for my previous employer in the UK. 
My involvement was mostly with SMT/CMT/RMT/HMT
software design, and I'm familiar with the AMD Supernet-I chipset.

Now I'm working at DEC, Reading, UK, in Corporate Backbone Networks, as part
of a team developing a multi-protocol (including FDDI) bridge/router. So my
interest in the conference is both to get a feel of DEC's policies and
strategy regarding FDDI and FDDI-II, and to keep up with technical issues.

Thanks,

Jim Chapman, RE0-GH3, DTN 830-4653

John McClelland
Network Consultant
Dallas ACT

    I am in Network Sales Support in New York and serve as the Integrated
    Network Designer for the Area. I have many customers which are
    interested as FDDI as the next step to their networks. For the most
    part I am oncerned with HW issues although I am attempting to expand my
    knowledge with an understanding of how the SW plays a role in
    networking.
    
    As a side point I am current working on my Thesis for Grad school and
    the topic is (you guessed it) FDDI!
    
    
    Michelle Saunders

    Hi, 
    
       Tomonari Tohara (call me "Tomo" for short) a member of
      JRD (Japan reserch and Development center)/LSI design group and
      now is working at SHR/ADVLSI group.   Although our group is 
      in SIMG, I am very much interested in ANY networking, since my major
      in Univ. was networking (not LAN or else, micro wave, data coding
      etc) and in 21 century, networking is the most important technology
      I think.  With my personal idea, computer (maybe work station, PC or
      inteligent terminal) can replace all tepehones in the world. 
      not only FDDI but also giga-net and ISDN (PBX included) will be 
      keys of network.  I am very happy to access this not.  
        After my reading thru. the note, I will write something in this not
      to discuss network (FDDI mainly) with you all. 
    
          SHR1-3/E26 (mail stop)
          ADVLSI::TOHARA  (or JRDLSI::TOHARA)
          237-2579 (DTN)
    
      Tomo
    
      PS:: If there are somebodies working on network related LSI, please
           send me a mail.  I will hear your project, if it's not
           confidencial.
    

Hi,

	My name is Thien Doan working as a Network Consultant for EIS/Network
	Consulting Group at Hudson, NH ( GSF ).

	Interest in learning more about FDDI and its implementations techniques.
	

    My name is Stephen Blythe and I am employed at the Northern Repair
    Centre in Warrington, UK. I have been tasked to investigate FDDI
    products with a view to introducing them into the repair centre and
    implementing repair/verify processes.       
    
    Steve

    Hello, 
    Mike Paddick, Principal Field Service Engineer working out of Bristol 
    in the South UK region (Wales, to be more precise).
    
    I am concentrating on networks generally from a Customer Services
    angle, and I will be the one out on site trying to figure out what's
    wrong when it don't work !!!
    
    I am interested in all LAN and particularly fibre developements.
    
    FILTON::PADDICK
    
    Iechyd da!
    
    Mike.P.

Jeff Riggen

Pre-Sales Support
Colorado Springs, Co
Always looking for more information on FDDI and (MAN's Metro Area Networks)

    HI ALL,
    
    My name is Rich Marcus. I'm a sales rep.  My customer is Jet Propulsion
    Lab.  I have a specific interest in FDDI because one of my customers at
    JPL does.  This customer has the enviable (un-enviable?) task of
    characterizing the optical flaw in the Hubble Telescope, and then
    correcting it.  So, they will be dealing with a lot of large image
    files.  Each time the telescope takes a picture, there is a minimum of
    5MB of data.  To view and manipulate this data they're buying three
    DECstation 5000-200PXG's.  They'll be hooking these three together with
    FDDI.
    
    I am in the L.A. Government District in Culver City.
    
    What I would like to see is performance data over FDDI as well as
    through a DS5000 as a router from Ethernet-to-FDDI

    Hello,
    I'm Helder Eloy from Brazil (Rio de Janeiro).
    I'm Advisory Support for Brazilian Telecomunication Companies and also
    for big Manufacturing companies, where they want to plug together PABX
    and computers (VAX).

    I'm Ian Harrop from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.

    I am the account manager for the provincial telco, SaskTel.  I am
    interested in using FDDI to expand/update SaskTel's internal network as
    well as the potential for SaskTel offering a service to their customers.

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

    
    
    	Hello,
    
    	Jose Fco. Vega @SQO
    
    	Networks & Site Services  
    	Madrid
    	Spain
    
     

    Joining also,
    
    Walter Brunner (Field Support Group French Switzerland)
    DEC 14 years - Network about 4 years
    
    Support for CERN FDDI Network
    Happy to join

        Name     - Matthew Bagdy 
        Job      - Hardware Support Technician working in IM&T
        Location - BTO facility in South Burlington, Vermont (USA)
        
        Basically, I'm  interested  in the new wave of communications
        via Fiber.  We  also  have  a  Field Test Benchmark coming up
        soon  that  will  involve  FDDI.    Trying  to  get  as  much
        information prior to this test.
        
        I've been with DEC for the past ten years, but have been more
        involved with  hardware  configurations during the past four.
        Have also been involved  with various network configurations,
        within the plant, during that time.
        
        Matt

    
    	Ron Stahly
    
    	VAXcluster Training (internal)
    	Colorado Springs, Colorado  (USA)
    
    	I do all sorts of VAXcluster training - SCA, Connection
    	Manager, Lock Manager, VAXcluster Troubleshooting,
    	VAXcluster Support. Also 5.4 Update and Performance 
    
    	My intrest in FDDI is VAXclusters & Networks
    

    Hi, 

    My name is JACK SORIEUL,and I'm working in Application Development Center
    Team in EVRY (FRANCE).(PRSFSA::SORIEUL or @TDC)
    We are a decentralized Engineering Team of DSA&L EURO-ENGINEERING of 
    NIJMEGEN. (Netherlands)
    Our application field is usually the Repair Centers.
    (but we work for digital , so ...)
    We develop process and tools to repair and verify modules and equipments.

    ADC/TDC must develop FDDI tester to repair modules in FY92.
    
    Our background ,
    TVB (terminals tester) ,8051 Emulators ,
    CVAX and SOC pod  with ROM Emulation, 
    NETBOX (able to diagnose ETHERNET equipments and now able to verify
    them)ETHERNET compliant. waiting patent.Distributed around the world.
    
    read you soon
    
    JACK				
				
    Engineering Technician & Project Administrator
    

    
    Hi,
    
    My name is Eran Gorev and i'm an account manager in Israel, defense
    sector, working with the IDF, the Israeli army.
    
    My customer has many distributed networks and discussions are underway
    regarding the issue of FDDI networks : performance, security features,
    etc., etc.
    
    I hope i'll be able to use this conference as a good reference for
    information of different kinds.
    
    Regards,
    Eran
    

	Megan Gentry
	USSG/ Ultrix development
	PKO3-1/29D
	223.7990

	Working on Ultrix networking development.  Soon to work on
	new FDDI device driver for Ultrix

    
    
    	Klaus Hengstmann
    	COO / Educational services
    
    	COLA1::KHENGSTMANN
    or  COLTRG::HENGSTMANN      for MAIL
        
    
    	Working for customer training i shall soon have to have an
    	indepth understanding of FDDI and how DEC has implemented it.
    	Right now i feel somewhat lost.
    
    	thanks
    	Klaus

    Hello,
    	I'm David Hoffmann. I'm with Digital-Telstar, the Eastman Kodak
    outsourcing venture. We are currently proposing an FDDI backbone for
    Kodak. My responsibility is in the area of network performance and
    reliability.

    Hello,
    
    	I'm the guy who led the hardware design effort on copper FDDI, as well
        as the Low cost DEFCN ST optics card. 
    
    NAC Engineering:    John Fitzgerald dtn:227-3646 
    			Levers::J_Fitzgerald

	Hi,

	I'm Luc Pariseau.  The current SMT project leader.  We call
	DEC's implementation of SMT "Common Node Software" (CNS).

	227-3563
	TAY2-2/B4

Terry Wright, UNY District Network Consultant (Rochester, N.Y.);Network Partner

I support Kodak, Xerox, Corning, Cornell, Mobil, RIT, Uinv. of Rochester, RIT,
Fisons, Thomson Publishing, etc.

dtn 252-7266

    My name is James Carter.(I know I know...) :-}
    I work in Southern States Region Systems Support.
    My interest in FDDI is to learn as much as possible. Especially since I
    have a customer (BG&E) that adds to their FDDI net EVERY summer and
    they have problems EVERY summer. (self maintenance) I've been with DEC
    for 16 years. The last 5 in networks.
    DTN - 327-5360

    Hello 
    I am Dennis Mouzakis from Greece and I am network analyst and designer
    working for DS unit.
    Kind Regards
    DM
    

    I'm Bernard Collonnier working as Network Consultant at European level
    but located in France. I specialized in broadband technologies such
    FDDI, SMDS/CBDS, Frame Relay, ATM, SDH/Sonet and I'm particularly
    interesting to understand FDDI benefits and techniques versus emerging
    ATM LAN.
    

	Name:              Michio Nagashima
	Organization:      Workstation and Application IBU
	Interest	   LAN-Internet, GigaSwitch, Multimedia, OO-Env.
	Email Address:     tkovoa::nagashima_m
			   michio nagashima @tko
			   [email protected]
        DTN:               681
	Phone:             +81-3-3989-7527
	Fax  :             +81-3-3989-7537
	Location: 	   Sunshine 60 Bldg. 35F/12#
			   3-1-1 Higashi-Ikebukuro, Toshima-Ku
			   Tokyo, JAPAN
	Mailstop:	   TKO

    Hi, 

    I'm Kenji Noguchi, belong to Sales Support Group in Telecom industry
   in Tokyo Japan.
    My customer is mainly NTT (Nihon Telephone and Telegram company) ,who 
   is interested in FDDI cluster. 

   best ragards

    
    
    	Hello All
    
    	Paul Kirk here from the Dublin Office in Ireland. I am DECresident
    	at Intel here in Lexlip Co.Kildare.
    
    	I will be installing a FDDI ring on four VAX7610 along with  
    	7 x  620 bridges and 2 concentrators.
    	
    	Good Luck                  

    Greetings from Belfast,
    
    Ronnie Millar MV Customer services group, resident engineer in local 
    areo-structure company Shorts. We have just installed MDF for two
    systems.
    
    Customer is running out of bandwidth on Ethernet and is looking to FDDI
    and other emerging technologies to solve his future requirements.
    
    Regards,
    
    Ronnie.

    Mike Raspuzzi - currently in DSG (Westford, MA).  Since I am currently
    respsonsible for LAT VMS development, I should keep an ear to the
    ground for FDDI.  So far, LAT works OK...
    
    Mike

    HI all.........
    
    Tony Rees from the customer support centre in Basingstoke in the UK
    
    Have been with DECfor 3 months and will remain here till next October
    at which point I shall be returning to University for my FINALS (ouch!)
    
    I work fro the COMMS group at UVO3 my responsibility,  to give support
    to customers ringing in and to give (to date) seminars to the group on
    Token Ring and FDDI..
    
    Having little or no experience in either subject I am hoping to gain
    from reading ths conference facility....
    
    If anyone can offer any further pointers , help or advice I would be
    very gratefull..
    
    Tony

    Phil McElwee - networks focused product support engineer, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
    Involved with FDDI since original DEFEB/DEFCN Field Tests, but little
    support activity needed here until recently. Time to catch up.
    
    Phil

    Gary Kelly - Alpha Personal Systems Computer Operations 
               - Located in the Mill (for now) within what is known
                 as the Pat-Net, the APS fddi LAN off the Mill's main
                 backbone. 

    
    
    Ed Blum -  Augusta Manufacturing Engineering. Augusta, Maine. 
    
            -  Manufacturing operations support for DECHUB 90/900 and Max/Min 
               attachment modules....

>	Megan Gentry
>	USSG/ Ultrix development
>	PKO3-1/29D
>	223.7990
>
>	Working on Ultrix networking development.  Soon to work on
>	new FDDI device driver for Ultrix

	Out of date, new location is:

	Unix Support and Engineering Group (USEG)
	ZK3-2/T43
	dtn 381.1055

	Working on ultrix networking and DEFTA device driver for
	Ultrix V4.4.

    Hello:
    I'm Richard cai, a sales support specialist. Shanghai China.
    
    Thanks.
    
    Richard
    

    Hello,
    
    I am Arobindu Basu , a customer Engr Splst , at Calcutta , India.
    Considering the a bright prospect of FDDI in india , Very much
    interested in it. Presently supporting special project at Nanyang
    Technological Univ. , Singapore.
    
    Present contact addr:  zpovc::arobindubasu
                         
              Proj. site:  (65) 799-4999
                    Res :  (65) 569-2730
    
    Permanent contact addr: Digital  2/6 sarat bose rd calcutta-700 020
                            India. 
                           (91) 475-0403/475-0401/749346
    
       regards,
    
       Basu

    Tyrone Lin
    Network Product Business Unit
    Beijing,PRC
    Tyrone Lin @ bejvc
    Bejvc::TYRONELIN
    [email protected]

    Hello.

    I'm Taiji Katsube.
    NPB Marketing Support (Japan)
    
    Thanks.
    

    Pierre J. DYSLI
    
    Technology Consultant
    OpenVMS partner - Switzerland
    
    Business Partner support
    

      Hi,
    
    I am    Soumetty MIRGHANE	Technical OEM sales support
    main interest:    		networks and high performance computing
        DIGITAL France
        atyisb::mirghane  Soumetty MIRGHANE @aty
      

    Hi,
    
    I'm Jason Caley from the Network Products Business in Australia (SPT).
    Responisbilities include : pre-sales technical support, bid/tender
    assistance, public speaking/conferences, software support for HUbwatch,
    Probewatch and Netrider, network design.
    
    Interests : Increasing FDDIs market share for backbone networks. Not a
    big fan of ATM (Almost To Market) but acknowledge that anything I build
    needs to have a migration path to it. Would like to work for Digital
    NPB overseas at some stage.
    
    E-mail address : SNOC02::CALEYJASON
    
    regards,
    
    Jason
    

    
    Bob Ferrara from the Computer Special Systems (CSS) Real-time
    Engineering group in Merrimack, NH.
    
    I am working on Digital UNIX device driver for a VMEbus FDDI
    card.  In addition, to configuring a small netork of FDDI interfaces
    to form a firewall.
    
    EMail: [email protected]
    
    -Bob