Subject: APPN Multivendor Connectivity Test II

From: "Erika Lewis (T/L 444-4475)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 95 17:29:11 EST

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The second APPN MULTIVENDOR CONNECTIVITY TEST will be held 2/27/95-3/2/95
in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Hot Staging for Interop APPN distributed demo will immediately follow
on 3/3/95.
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Also known as the APPN "connect-a-thon", this is chance for multiple vendors to
verify connectivity or identify connectivity problems.  The first Connectivity
Test was held last June and was deemed a huge success by participating vendors.
For further details about the upcoming APPN Multivendor Connectivity Test
and registration information, tune into the validation mail exploder.

After you've verified interoperability of your APPN products, you can
show your customers.  The last day of the Connectivity Test will
be the hot-staging for a multi-vendor distributed APPN demo across
the InteropNet.  More information about becoming part of the APPN
backbone at Interop in Las Vegas (March 27th-31st) will also be posted
on the validation mail exploder.

If you're not already subscribed to the validation mail exploder, you
can subscribe by sending a note to:
[email-masked]
and in the body of the note type:
subscribe [email-masked] <your name>

Erika Lewis
(919)-254-4475

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 95 09:35:34 EDT

Erika,

 I believe I spoke to you at the last AIW about trying to talk AT&T into 
 providing a small Stratacom Switch for the Multivendor Connectivity Test 
 to allow alternative media, i.e. frame relay connections between routers 
 at an RFC1490 level.  I don't have final approval, but there seems to be 
 enough interest at this end that I would like to confirm that that would 
 be of interest to the vendors that are participating in the multivendor 
 connectivity test.  Of course along with the switch we would also be 
 providing a technician who would b able to help in setting up the 
 connections and test throughput and compliance to RFC1490.

 If you are not the right person, please forward this to the appropriate 
 party and let me know who that is.  Please let me know as soon as 
 possible.  Thank you.  

 Harvey Josephson                          Internet: [email-masked]
 AT&T Bell Laboratories
 101 Crawford Corners Road
 Holmdel, NJ 07733

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From: [email-masked] (Scott Barvick)
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 17:17:15 -0500 (EST)

Bay Networks is very interested in having frame relay at the
next APPN Connect-a-Thon.  We would like to work with other vendors
and IBM equipment such as the 3745/46 for both 1490 bridged and
native SNA modes.  The last Connect-a-Thon was a great experience
which we would like to see grow in terms of media, features, vendors,
and equipment.

Scott Barvick
[email-masked]

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From: Anson Chen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 95 0:28:13 PST

Erika:

   I just added myself to the validation mail exploder :-)

Cisco would be interested in participating the APPN multivendor connectivity
test as well as the Interop APPN distributed demo.   

Thanks

Anson
408-526-4551

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