jh@tut.fi (Juha Hein{nen) (01/13/88)
In December 1987 issue of Data Communications there was a short note stating that the 802.6 (MAN) committee had adopted QPSX (Queued Packed and Synchronous Switch Dual-But) network topology over competing FDDI. The note says that QSPX is a dual-fiber nonbranching bus looped into a ring. Can someone give pointers where to find more information about QPSX? Is QPSX still a paper product or are there chips and implementations available? What will happen to FDDI - will it survive when Bell companies and AT&T are backing QSPX? -- Juha Heinanen Tampere Univ. of Technology Finland jh@tut.fi (Internet), tut!jh (UUCP)
michael@mqcomp.oz (Michael Homsey) (02/11/88)
Can some one who knows tell me if FDDI has been dropped in favour of QPSX
in the standards race? Or, is it now yet another alternative to FDDI ?
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