| 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 |
Another oddball request from downunder...does anyone know of product or
planned product which is a direct FDDI (DAS preferably) connect
terminal server.
This is not such a stupid requirement as you may first think, we have
an all alpha/all fddi configuration but require to add on RS232/RS423
printers and inputs from environment monitors (UPS status, temperature
etc) and currently we have to provide an FDDI-e'net bridge to get
terminal servers connect, this is costly and clumsy and difficult to
meet tempest requirements which dictate fundamentally an all fibre
network.
Please post nodename::coact if you cannot reply to this conference.
Thanks
Steve.
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| 1005.1 | KONING::KONING | Paul Koning, A-13683 | Thu Jul 01 1993 10:28 | 11 | |
Never heard of such a thing. From the performance point of view it makes no sense, but the other reasons you mention do make sense (for at least a few customers...). With next generation (hub based) Ethernet to FDDI bridges, the approach of bridging to Ethernet and then into a terminal server should become a whole lot more palatable cost-wise. Apart from that, I wonder if someone has considered adding DEFQA support to the DECserver-500? :-) Might make a nice custom software project to help out this customer. paul | |||||