Appletalk Phase II

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From: Edward R. Kozel
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 1990 19:54

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CISCO ROUTERS ADD SUPPORT FOR APPLETALK PHASE II PROTOCOL

MENLO PARK, Calif., Sept. 24, 1990 -- support for the AppleTalk II
communication protocol -- introduced by Apple Computer in June 1989
and now shipping with its new generation of Macintoshes -- has been
added to cisco Systems' family of internetwork routers.

Beginning in November all cisco routers will offer AppleTalk Phase II
running concurrently with the original AppleTalk and some 15 other
protocols supported by cisco, including TCP/IP, DECnet, XNS, OSI,
X.25, Novell IPX, and Banyan VINES.  Like the other protocols,
AppleTalk Phase II will be offered as a standard feature of cisco
routers at no extra cost.

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Tsui added that "the ability to run both versions concurrently will
make the transition an easy one for users of Apple internetworks.
Because cisco routers allow some network segments to be running
AppleTalk Phase I while others are running Phase II, the user need not
convert his entire internetwork at once."

AppleTalk Phase II routing will be supported over cisco's Ethernet
(IEEE 802.3), synchronous serial, token ring (IEEE 802.5), X.25, and
FDDI network interfaces.

Services provided by cisco's AppleTalk Phase II implementation include
the Routing Table Management Protocol (RTMP), the Name Binding
Protocol (NBP), the Echo Protocol (EP), the AppleTalk Transaction
Protocol (ATP), and the Zone Information Protocol (ZIP).

Cisco AppleTalk Phase II software has been tested and verified to work
with Apple Macintosh EtherTalk 2.0 products, Apple Internet Router
software, Centram Systems' TOPS (for both Sun Microsystems and
Macintosh products), and the Kinetics FastPath (K-Star 8.0) series
gateways.

Current users of cisco routers under product warranty can upgrade free
to gain AppleTalk Phase II support; others can be updated for $500.

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From: kozel@milano.cisco.com (Edward R. Kozel)
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Subject: Appletalk Phase II
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Date: 27 Sep 90 19:54:08 GMT
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