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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

101.0. "IBM's FDDI plans???" by RIPPLE::KOPEC_ST (Seattle DNT/Sales - DTN 545-4207) Wed Aug 08 1990 17:23

    One of our customers with a very large installed base of 3270s attended
    an IBM Networking seminar recently specifically with the intent
    of understanding how/when/what IBM plans for supporting SNA over
    FDDI.  He was amazed that FDDI didn't come up once throughout the
    seminar!
    
    What have you guys heard about IBM's FDDI/SNA plans?   Do they plan
    to use Cluster Controller/FEP Token ring adapters and then bridge 
    onto FDDI rather than developing a direct FDDI attachment option?
    
    					Thanks, Stan

    PS  Cross-posted in DNT.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
101.1		RIPPLE::KOPEC_ST	Seattle DNT/Sales - DTN 545-4207	`Wed Aug 15 1990 18:24`	9
	FWIW, a summary of the replies I've gotten via internal email is that we/DEC expect IBM to come out with "something sometime" soon. For example a direct CC (3172?) and FEP (3745?) interface to FDDI, and in this way support higher level SNA protocols over the FDDI data link layer. I have received no better estimates than that. Stan
101.2	Anything new regarding BIG BLUE's FDDI plans?	VAXRIO::ROLF		`Thu May 09 1991 11:56`	16
	Wonder if we know anything more about IBM's FDDI plans by now? I visited a customer yesterday who is likely to contract a very large DECconnect installation from us with 3 VAXen hooked together by FDDI and talking to the terminals via the new BECbridge-600. That customer also has a lot of IBM stuff and would love to have a way to connect the IBM system directly into the FDDI ring, rather than doing it in the conventional Gateway method, hooking into one of the Ethernets. That customer also mentioned that he had heard about a "box" which would connect IBM to FDDI, but had no specifics. Any info welcome! Thanks! Rolf, NWSS, DEC Brazil
101.3	3745??	LEVERS::GULICK	The owls are not what they seem	`Wed May 15 1991 16:08`	6
	The rumor is IBM will annouce a 3745 Front End Processor with FDDI attachment at the ICA show in June (same show we're announcing Phase V and Hastings). -tom
101.4	IBM FDDI	HAMPS::WILKINS_N		`Thu May 16 1991 08:27`	7
	We have just come across a bid in the U.K, were IBM were bidding FDDI con and Etherent bridges. They would not commit definately to a deliver date of August. The customer tells me the IBM promised kit is very similar to ours. Neil
101.5		BRULE::MICKOL	If you think of losing, you've lost	`Thu Jun 20 1991 03:17`	14
	I support a Corporate Account that has asked us whether IBM's ESCON (their version of our VAXcluster architecture) can connect to any of our FDDI offerings. They want to be able to ship lots of data out of the IBM cluster into a high-volume printserver and they think FDDI is what they need. Who would be a good person to contact to discuss the feasibility of this. The customers we're dealing with are high-level research engineers (PHDs) and so we will probably need to get fairly technical in our description if it can be done. Regards, Jim
101.6		KONING::KONING	Eesti vabaks!	`Mon Jun 24 1991 14:03`	5
	If IBM supports FDDI (I don't know if they do in general, nor for ESCON in particular) then the answer should be yes. You'll need to find out what IBM claims to support. paul