The fusion of IBM's token-ring networks to existing SNA networks is perhaps the single most important event in the history of SNA. However, while powerful in tandem, token-ring and SNA networks are essentially incompatible. Thus, LAN gateways, the sometimes mysterious entities linking the two networks, have been thrust into the limelight of corporate networking strategy. This is a guide to the many approaches to establishing connectivity between IBM's token-ring and SNA networks. It presents a comprehensive assessment of today's gateway options, as well as a look ahead to which options are likely to provide the IBM-SNA links of the future.
- ISBN10 0076070352
- ISBN13 9780076070350
- Publish Date 1 December 1991
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 5 April 2008
- Publish Country US
- Publisher McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
- Imprint McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 350
- Language English