Press Index Accredited Standards Committee * X3, Information Technology NEWS RELEASE Doc. No.: PR/96-096 Reply to: Deborah J. Donovan at ddonovan@itic.nw.dc.us
Washington D.C., November 1996 -- Accredited Standards Committee X3, Information Technology announces approval of this new project being developed within Technical Committee, X3T11: Fibre Channel Backbone (FC-BB). The reference number for this project is 1238-D.
This project proposal recommends the development of a Fibre Channel Backbone project, which will define the functions and mappings necessary to bridge between physically-separate instances of he same network definition. Included within this scope are:
a) The definition of Media Access Control (MAC) - level address mappings and translations and the provision of support for configuration discovery functions;
b) The provision of necessary management, control and remote monitoring functions to support existing application packages;
c) The definition of mappings between Fibre Channel services, and other equivalent definitions as necessary;
d) Other capabilities which fit within the general scope of implementing a transparent homogenous backbone.
Candidate network definitions for inclusion in this project are the various types of Ethernet, Fast Ethernet and the developing Gigabit Ethernet, and the Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) etc. The exact definitions included in this function will be a function of the participants and their willingness to contribute resources.
Inquiries regarding this project [project 1238-D] and other Fibre Channel and HIPPI projects should be sent to the Chairman of X3T11, Mr. Roger Cummings, Distributed Processing Technology, 140 Candace Dr., Maitland, FL 32751. Email: cummings_roger@dpt.com.
The next meeting of X3T11 is December 2-6, 1996 in Bloomington, MN. All organizations and individuals who are materially or directly affected are invited to participate.
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