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- From: bantha.decnet.lockheed.com!young
- Subject: Another Application
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.154749.6573@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- Reply-To: young@bantha.decnet.lockheed.com
- Sender: news@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (News)
- Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 15:47:49 GMT
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- OK lets try this application; A travel reservation service using the
- cell relay value added networks.
-
- In this case travel agents who want to set up a travel tour to, say,
- Central and Eastern Europe can send an exploratory wave to that region
- and visit a desktop computer in every hotel in the area, examine the
- hotel description (using some common data base application), returning
- any relevant info back to the travel agent setting up the tour.
-
- Here is how it works:
-
- The service uses a single VCI leased from the local value added net,
- valid over that whole region, and which spans all the hotels which are
- likely targets of for travel tours. Now at each hotel exists a software
- package which runs on some low cost, cheap, clone-able PC, and provides a
- common software format for hotel owners to describe the facility and local
- amenities.
-
- The service user prepares an exploratory wave, sends it (via TCP/IP) to
- the local wave launching point, lets it loose into the hotel spanning net.
- The wave collects data back to the launching point, where it is transferred
- back to the agent.
-
- Some few minutes later come back a series of digital brochures from a
- desktop in each hotel in the region.
-
- No hassle, no muss, no management, no extra layers.
- Matt Young
- Lockheed
- (408) 756-6789
-