usenet@cuae2.UUCP (Netnews Admin) (10/26/86)
Earlier this month, Sun announced the following additions to its SunLink data communications product family: SunLink VT100*-type Terminal Allows a Sun workstation to bring up Emulator VT100 emulation in a window. SunLink DNA*-type Protocols Allows a Sun workstation to connect to DECnet environment. Includes VT100*-type Terminal Emulator. DECnet Phase IV protocols that run Ethernet; TCP/IP is allowed to run concurrently on same Ethernet. SunLink OSI Enhanced to include MAP support, in addition to TOP. Allows Sun Workstations to communicate via an 802.4 broadband token bus. SunLink X.25 Enhanced to include X.29 and X.3 support in addition to X.25. Allows a Sun Workstation access to a public data network. X.29 and X.3 provide virtual terminal capability. SunLink DDN Allows a Sun Workstation to serve as a gateway between a Sun network and the Defense Data Network (eg. ARPANET, MILNET, etc.). Existing SunLink products: SunLink SNA 3270 Provides IBM 3278 terminal emulation in an SNA environment. Allows a Sun Workstation to be a gateway server providing 3278 terminal sessions (in a window) to other workstations on the local Ethernet or an Internetwork. File transfer capability provided. SunLink BSC 3270 Provides IBM 3278 terminal emulation in a non-SNA environment. Allows a Sun Workstation to be a gateway server providing 3278 terminal sessions (in a window) to other workstations on the local Ethernet or an Internetwork. File transfer capability provided. SunLink BSC RJE Provides IBM 2780, 3780 and HASP station emulation in a batch- communication environment. Allows a Sun Workstation to be a gateway server providing an IBM RJE host connection to other workstations on the local Ethernet or an Internetwork. File transfer capability provided. SunLink Internetwork Router Extends Sun network communications beyond local Ethernet across a wide area. Allows local Ethernet resources to be shared across the Internetwork. SunLink Communication Processor Optional board which improves performance by offloading protocol handling from the Sun workstation processor. Provides additional communications ports (RS232, RS449). The SunLink product family is designed to facilitate implementation of multi-vendor and wide area networks. Different SunLink packages can run concurrently on the same workstation, different protocols can run concurrently along the same Ethernet, and SunLink gateway products can be shared across a wide area network, allowing access to gateways residing on remote Ethernets. SunLink products are standalone software packages which require no special hardware; the SunLink Communication Processor is optional and can be used to improve performance. Your local Sun sales representative can provide you with additional information on SunLink products. Brian Craig Sun Microsystems Mountain View, Ca. -- Ron Heiby usenet@cuae2.ATT.COM Moderator: mod.newprod & mod.os.unix AT&T-IS, /app/eng, Lisle, IL (312) 810-6109