| 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've been asked by a customer, who received the FDDI PID, whether
    or not Digital will in any way support SAFENET II.  So far I'm told
    that it is a Navy sponsored spec that sounds like a super-set of
    the ANSI FDDI spec.
    
    Can any one provide or direct me to information regarding Safenet
    II and Digital's position on it?                          
    
    While I'm asking, the customer also asked whether Digital will be
    supporting XTP (as in Express Transfer Protocol), which is believed
    to be part of TCP/IP and also maybe part of the Safenet II.
                                    
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| 36.1 | KONING::KONING | NI1D @FN42eq | Fri Feb 16 1990 14:45 | 6 | |
| FWIW, XTP is not in any way related to TCP/IP. Instead, it's an invention of people who claim that TCP/IP is incapable of being made efficient enough for networks like FDDI. The technical justification for this claim is flimsy at best... paul | |||||