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- From: MICHAEL.WILLETT@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Michael Willett")
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
- Subject: CISCO's APPI
- Message-ID: <199209101618.AA16448@tuna.wang.com>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 17:09:43 GMT
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- This may be of interest:
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- Computerworld
- September 7, 1992
- (Front Page)
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- Cisco offers open APPN option
- APPI pitched as alternative for blending SNA with distributed nets
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- MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Cisco Systems, Inc. stunned the industry last week
- with a gutsy challenge to IBM's Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking scheme
- for migrating its hierarchical Systems Network Architecture to distributed
- internetworks. The router market leader announced that it is developing an
- "open' APPN alternative, dubbed Advanced Peer-to-Peer Internetworking, due
- out in the third quarter of next year.
-
- APPI is aimed at the plethora of commercial customers who run both large
- SNA networks and local-area network internetworks, according to Michael
- H. Zadikian, Cisco's SNA product manager.
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- IBM warning
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- The move follows an IBM briefing on APPN that angered some developers
- because IBM issued a strong warning that APPN developers had better first
- license IBM's patented technology. General user and analyst reaction was
- that the Cisco offer will ease user architecture integration headaches,
- force IBM to own up to its APPN Network Node licensing and deployment
- timetables and get the APPN ball rolling. IBM has already published
- APPN End Node specifications that give any vendor's device access to
- APPN network resources.
-
- However, IBM has dragged its feet on letting competitors get their
- hands on APPN Network Node's sophisticated directory and routing
- functions for co-ordinating resource-sharing across peer-to-peer
- networks, sources said.
-
- "APPI is essentially a way to do peer-to-peer SNA networking without
- solely relaying on APPN products from IBM and the friends they choose
- to license the software to," noted Nick Lippis, president of
- Strategic Networks, Inc., a consultancy in Rockland, Mass......
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- Michael.Willett@OFFICE.Wang.com
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