SNA and OSI: three strategies for interconnection

  • Authors:

  • Matthew A. Tillman;David C.-C. Yen

  • Affiliations:

  • Arthur Andersen & Co., Washington, DC;Miami Univ., Oxford, OH

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

The rise of the Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model (OSI) in the past five years is forcing IBM to rethink its plans for its proprietary network standard Systems Network Architecture (SNA). This article reviews three interconnection strategies to be considered.