echan@cadev6.intel.com (Eldon Chan ~ ) (04/16/91)
I heard SMT 7.0 will be released in May by ANSI. Do Cisco customers have to upgrade their FDDI boards. I just got my two boards last month. Is it going to cost me to upgrade them ? Eldon Chan Design Technology Intel Corporation
wenker@poplar.cray.com (Joe Wenker) (04/17/91)
> I heard SMT 7.0 will be released in May by ANSI. Do Cisco customers > have to upgrade their FDDI boards. I just got my two boards last > month. My understanding is that in May the SMT working group will *try* to have a new SMT document available for use by the members of the working group. This document will be the basis for SMT 7.0. I believe the official SMT 7.0 document will be completed sometime this summer. It must then go out for letter ballot, comments answered, etc, etc, before it is an ANSI spec. I'm probably out of line here and should let cisco give the official answer here but..........I don't believe there should be any cisco FDDI hardware changes for SMT 7.0 it should just require new firmware. I imagine it will be 8.x or knowing the ANSI FDDI committee 10.x. > Is it going to cost me to upgrade them ? Good question for your salesguy! Joe Wenker Cray Research, Inc