kozel@milano.cisco.com (Edward R. Kozel) (09/28/90)
CISCO ROUTERS ADD SUPPORT FOR APPLETALK PHASE II PROTOCOL MENLO PARK, Calif., Sept. 24, 1990 -- support for the AppleTalk II communication protocol -- introduced by Apple Computer in June 1989 and now shipping with its new generation of Macintoshes -- has been added to cisco Systems' family of internetwork routers. Beginning in November all cisco routers will offer AppleTalk Phase II running concurrently with the original AppleTalk and some 15 other protocols supported by cisco, including TCP/IP, DECnet, XNS, OSI, X.25, Novell IPX, and Banyan VINES. Like the other protocols, AppleTalk Phase II will be offered as a standard feature of cisco routers at no extra cost. .... boilerplate deleted ... Tsui added that "the ability to run both versions concurrently will make the transition an easy one for users of Apple internetworks. Because cisco routers allow some network segments to be running AppleTalk Phase I while others are running Phase II, the user need not convert his entire internetwork at once." AppleTalk Phase II routing will be supported over cisco's Ethernet (IEEE 802.3), synchronous serial, token ring (IEEE 802.5), X.25, and FDDI network interfaces. Services provided by cisco's AppleTalk Phase II implementation include the Routing Table Management Protocol (RTMP), the Name Binding Protocol (NBP), the Echo Protocol (EP), the AppleTalk Transaction Protocol (ATP), and the Zone Information Protocol (ZIP). Cisco AppleTalk Phase II software has been tested and verified to work with Apple Macintosh EtherTalk 2.0 products, Apple Internet Router software, Centram Systems' TOPS (for both Sun Microsystems and Macintosh products), and the Kinetics FastPath (K-Star 8.0) series gateways. Current users of cisco routers under product warranty can upgrade free to gain AppleTalk Phase II support; others can be updated for $500. ... boilerplate deleted ... Questions :=> listwin@cisco.com Questions :=> listwin@cisco.com Questions :=> listwin@cisco.com Questions :=> listwin@cisco.com Questions :=> listwin@cisco.com Questions :=> listwin@cisco.com