stephan@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Stephan Biesbroeck) (03/14/91)
Hello, I am looking for information on the FDDI Station Management part. Can someone point me to some documentation ? Where can I find the official standard document ? Have there been any publications on this ?? What is the status of FDDI-II ? When will it be available ? Will it ever be available, or will IEEE 802.6 be the standard ?? Also any documentation on this is really appreciated. Thanks, Stephan Biesbroeck stephan@cs.kuleuven.ac.be stephan@Belgium.EU.net
haas%basset.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Walt Haas) (03/18/91)
In article <2412@n-kulcs.cs.kuleuven.ac.be> stephan@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Stephan Biesbroeck) writes: >Hello, > >I am looking for information on the FDDI Station Management part. >Can someone point me to some documentation ? >Where can I find the official standard document ? Have there been >any publications on this ?? I believe they are up to about version 6.2 of the draft standard. -- Walt
my@levadi.nsc.com (Michael Yip) (03/18/91)
> Subject: FDDI Station Management ? FDDI-II ? > Organization: Dept. Computer Science K.U.Leuven > I am looking for information on the FDDI Station Management part. > Can someone point me to some documentation ? > Where can I find the official standard document ? Have there been > any publications on this ?? FDDI SMT is up to version 6.2. Version "7.0" or "6.2b" or whatever will be coming out real-soon-now... probably after the April meeting. Not sure where you can buy the standard, but the vice chairman of the committe is Mr. Floyd Ross from UNISYS. His address is UNISYS, P.O. Box 203, Paoli, PA 19301 and phone number is (215) 648-7200. The draft standard (6.2) was published May last year, I think. > What is the status of FDDI-II ? When will it be available ? Will it ever > be available, or will IEEE 802.6 be the standard ?? > Also any documentation on this is really appreciated. FDDI-II is still on-going. -- Mike Yip my@berlioz.nsc.com
merike@alw.nih.gov (Merike Kaeo) (03/19/91)
The latest SMT (rev. 6.2) can be obtained from Global Engineering Documents 1-800-854-7179. I've got two addresses for them: - 1990 M Street NW, Washington DC 20036 - 2805 McGaw Ave., Irvine, CA 92714 It was published in May, 1990. FDDI II depends on the Hybrid Ring Control part of the standard. Latest I heard was that it's nearing final approval, whatever that means. It is currently in revision 6.1 - I would imagine you could get this draft from Global Engineering Documents as well. -- Merike Kaeo
snorthc@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Stephen Northcutt) (03/21/91)
In article <2412@n-kulcs.cs.kuleuven.ac.be>, stephan@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Stephan Biesbroeck) writes: |> |> What is the status of FDDI-II ? When will it be available ? Will it ever |> be available, or will IEEE 802.6 be the standard ?? |> Also any documentation on this is really appreciated. *FDDI-II is still a draft, 6.2 or some such. *802.6 certainly will not be THE standard. It might be "a" IEEE standard, wasn't the vote early this year? I would appreciate it if some wise person could help me put some of these technologies in perspective. It seems there is some overlap between FDDI-II and 802.6, that's OK. Then they both seem orthogonal to SONET (or should I be saying SONET ATM?). We are the primary network provider for a fairly large campus. At a fairly large expense we have put in a flexible multimedia ducting system so that media changes between various standards (copper -> multimode fiber -> singlemode fiber) don't cause us great headaches at the backbone level. FDDI is our current backbone standard. Most of the computer hosts are connected to ethernets. Sometimes it seems like these technologies will be good forever, to the best of my understanding none of our unclassified hosts can make full use of an ethernet, but people claim there will be all these new applications: visualization, video, mega monster file transfers that will require incredible bandwidth. So assuming somehow that the next generation of IBM PCs, MACs, and SUN work- stations are capable of 800 or so megabits of I/O peaks, what will our networks have to look like? It is my understanding that if you have FDDI nodes on an FDDI-II network the FDDI-II nodes feel constrained to act like FDDI nodes. This certainly makes some sense, but we will be hardpressed to upgrade multiple vendors equipment at the same time. I just can't see 802.6 playing a part here unless it get real popular soon. SONET seems to make some sense as a line driver between clusters of buildings, but the only product I am aware of that can up/down convert a LAN technology like 802.3 or FDDI into SONET is the Alcatel/proteon combination. Also these types of conversions might be hard to do (cheaply) at fairly high speeds, so it would might make more sense to stay with one networking technology from the desktop through the campus backbone. As an example you could put SONET ATM boards in your desktop systems and run this building to building across the network, posibly remultiplexing or concatenating at building clusters to gain more throughput. :-) :-) Does anyone know of a couple sources for SONET/ATM boards for my IBM PC XT? I could probably spend $3 - 400.00 ea. I understand Russ Nelson is working on a driver :-) :-) I recently heard that fiberchannel would solve all our problems, problem is I don't know what fiberchannel is. So if anyone can share some info to unscramble my brains I would appreciate it. Thank You. =================================================================== Stephen Northcutt (snorthc@relay.nswc.navy.mil) News Admin
hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) (03/21/91)
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