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1 total messages Started by ms6b# Mon, 16 Feb 1987 15:22

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Author: ms6b#
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1987 15:22

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The 802.6 committee was considering a proposal from Burroughs for a fiber
ring metropolitan area network
that would run at around 50 Mbps.  There is a writeup in the IEEE Journal of
Selected Areas in Communications by Dan Sze from about January 1986 (the
special issue on Fiber LANs).

It is my understanding that Burroughs has disbanded the group which had been
pushing the 802.6 draft, and that the IEEE 802.6 committee is back to square
one.  I believe the FDDI standard is seen as solving many of the problems
that 802.6 was intended to address.  The balance are being solved by the
draft proposals for a broadband ISDN now circulating within ANSI T1D1.1
These latter proposals will be frozen in the next month or two.

Marvin Sirbu
CMU

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