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- From: bantha.decnet.lockheed.com!young
- Subject: Problem to Solve
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.162851.22872@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- Reply-To: young@bantha.decnet.lockheed.com
- Sender: news@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (News)
- Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 16:28:51 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- A Real Problem.
-
- System managers are probably not concerned about overuse of video
- on the new networks, video is way down on their list of priorities.
-
- However, here is one very big problem which cell relay helps solve:
-
- In our department we work in distributed documents which are integrated
- from the work of multiple scientists, using document links. These scientist
- travel quite often, and they carry their part of the document with them in
- little small inch disks, using whatever local PC they find.
-
- This work is judged in our market place on an hourly basis, that is I
- allways want the latest version, even though its an hour old. The only
- real address these smaller units have is their disk name and file name,
- I do not know the address of the current PC on which the scientist is
- working.
-
- Now cell relay offers me something called virtual networks, which can be
- re-shaped as new nodes are taken off and put on. So what I need to do is
- break with the traditional network addressing scheme, replace it with the
- concept of virtual spanning trees. Then in addition I need an interpretable
- protocol which can "ride" this virtual spanning tree locating the appropriate
- document components by disk and file name.
-
- Microsoft is butting right up against this problem as we speak. The solution
- is related to a combination of a virtual path network architecture, object
- oriented linking, and virus technology.
-
- Novell and IPX can't solve this.
- IBM and System Network Architecture can't solve this.
- TCP/IP doesn't help.
-
- How does cell relay help with this problem?
-