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The Open Shortest Path First protocol is another recent standard that helps routers perform least-cost routing of traffic. The router performs an on-the-spot analysis of all possible routes at the time and chooses the best one based on user-defined criteria.NETWORK DESIGN CRITERIA. Although bridges and routers are similar at a high level, they differ greatly in detail. Determining the best technology requires an analysis of specific network usage. tiffany and co earring bridges have less intelligence, this is sometimes an advantage.

And while bridges have no real addressing capability, many networks do not require it. Routers have multiprotocol capabilities, but consequently they require more processing for each packet routed. This in turn takes up more CPU resources and can slow down the network's performance.

Many vendors have taken the worry out of choosing by providing bridging and routing in a single device. These devices, often referred to as "brouters," look at packets, initially try to make a routing choice, but fall back to bridging if incapable of tiffany and co necklace so.

A merging of networking functions is about to occur--by the mid-1990s, bridging, routing, gateway, and circuit switching for voice, data, and image functions will be incorporated into a single device. As LANs are increasingly called upon to span multiple corporate sites, the need for wide-area communications will grow, and these internetworking devices will have to support a number of WAN interfaces, such as X.25, ISDN, Frame Relay, SMDS, and, ultimately, ATM. Many of these interfaces are already being implemented by the leading vendors to meet use demands for LAN and WAN routing.Research Triangle Park, N.C.--IBM officials last week mapped out the company's future plans for LAN products, which include this month's expected release of support for 16 bit/sec token-ring nets on unshielded twisted-pair wiring and, later, a family of FDDI products.

At a briefing for Network World here, IBM executives also discussed other key wholesale tiffany jewlery-area network areas that the vendor is exploring, such as wireless networks, multiprotocol net adapters and combination concentrator/LAN cards as well as new Ethernet products."You'll see a lot more this year in terms of what we're putting on the table," said Stuart Sager, manager of LAN planning and support for IBM's networking subsystems division.First out of the tiffany and co ring gate will be support for 16M bit/sec token-ring networks over unshielded twisted pair, which will be rolled out in two phases, according to IBM.First, Sager said, Big Blue will bring out "filtering products" that will let individual workstations support the higher transmission speeds over IBM's Type 3 unshielded twisted-pair cabling. Although he would not be more specific, analysts predicted that IBM intends to bolster the filtering capability of its existing Token-Ring adapters to support higher speeds.

IBM will also enhance its existing 8230 Controlled Access Unit (CAU)--its intelligent concentrator--with new filtering capabilities, so all devices attached to the CAU will be able to run at 16M bit/sec, according to Sager. A user could move to the 16M bit/sec unshielded twisted-pair token ring by upgrading CAU instead of the existing 4M/16M bit/sec cards within user workstations.

Sager stressed that IBM's unshielded twisted-pair products are being developed solely by IBM. Some analysts had questioned whether IBM's offerings would be jointly developed with SynOptics Communications, Inc., which has worked with IBM on a wholesale tiffany bracelets for a 16M bit/sec unshielded twisted-pair standard.

By the end of June, IBM is expected to provide support for Fiber Distributed Data Interface networks in the form of personal computer-based FDDI adapter cards. The company is also working on FDDI bridging and management capabilities.

Big Blue currently offers FDDI adapters for its RISC System/6000 and its 3172 controller. However, executives last week confirmed that IBM will meet the goals listed in a statement of direction circulated two years ago in which IBM pledged to have additional FDDI products and support by this June.