IBM Systems Journal articles from September 1995

IBM Systems Journal archives from September 1995

Multiprotocol networking - a blueprint.
September 1, 1995... The phrase "rapid pace of change" has become a cliche in the last decade of this century. However, the field of networking is truly being transformed by dramatic technological advances in both computing and communications. Enormous changes...

Local area networks - evolving from shared to switched access.
September 1, 1995... Shared-access local area networks (LANs) have matured over the last decade to where they now provide the predominant interconnection fabric for local enterprise networks around the world. In the United States alone, there were 3.1 million...

ATM: paving the information superhighway. (asynchronous transfer mode)
September 1, 1995... The past few years have brought rapid growth to the Internet and a variety of private online computer services. Usenet and the World Wide Web have attracted a new community of casual network users. Increasing interest in personal...

IBM Wireless RF LAN design and architecture. (IBM Wireless Radio Frequency Local Area Network)
September 1, 1995... During the last few decades the complexity of data communications has significantly increased. The amount and the diversity of networking solutions available in the marketplace are far more important today than during the 1960s when...

Data link switching: present and future.
September 1, 1995... With the growth of multiprotocol router-based networks, network planners have faced the problem that two of their most widely deployed protocols, IBM's Systems Network Architecture (SNA)[1,2] and Network Basic Input/Output System...

Advances in APPN architecture. (advanced peer-to-peer networking)
September 1, 1995... During the 1970s, both engineering and economics dictated the off-loading of communications functions from mainframes to specialized front-end processors. By the early 1980s, the steady decline in computing price and performance led to the...

TCP/IP: the next generation. (transmission control protocol/Internet protocol)
September 1, 1995... The Internet protocol suite has evolved over the years as its set of users has expanded to include groups with many needs not originally considered, as new applications have emerged, and as new kinds of link facilities have become available....

Multiprotocol transport networking: eliminating application dependencies on communications protocols.
September 1, 1995... Over the past two decades, numerous communications protocols have been developed. Examples of such protocols include Systems Network Architecture (SNA), [1] Open Systems Interconnection (OSI),[2] Transmission Control Protocol/Internet...

CPI-C: an API for distributed applications. (Common Programming Interface for Communications; application programming interfaces)
September 1, 1995... Distributed applications have fostered the standardization of application programming interfaces for the underlying communication services. Three popular communication models--remote procedure calls, messaging and queuing, and...

An architecture for multimedia communication and real-time collaboration.
September 1, 1995... Computers attached to networks are commonly used for collaborative activity; this is supported by a variety of mail, messaging, and database products. In most cases these applications are either person-to-person information exchanges where...