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The PC-based adapter cards will let LAN servers and LAN clients attach to an FDDI backbone. With FDDI on the backbone, however, IBM is forced to add FDDI support to its bridges, which the firm has acknowledged."We intend to provide (FDDI) bridging (capabilities)," Sager said. IBM currently offers two bridges: a software-only bridge and the 8209 combination software/hardware bridge.

Sager said the firm plans to release an FDDI management solution, although he declined to give more details. Analysts predicted, however, that the next release of IBM's LAN Network Manager, a centralized LAN management package, will support FDDI nets.

IBM executives said the company is looking into the possibility of wholesale tiffany pendants 100M bit/sec FDDI nets over shielded twisted-pair cabling, but they would not be more specific. Sager did say, however, that at the same time IBM releases its upcoming FDDI products, it will also reveal which of the two rival FDDI-over-shielded twisted-pair standards it intends to support.Officials also discussed a number of other technologies IBM is currently exploring, including wireless communications.

Donald Haile, IBM's new director of the LAN Systems group here, said that as workers become wholesale tiffany rings mobile and computers get smaller, there will be a growing interest in wireless communications. "We're looking seriously at packet (radio) and cellular communications," he said, adding that the company is also looking into the wireless LAN arena.At this point, however, IBM has not decided which type of wireless LAN technology it would use or whether it would make its own wireless LAN products or resell another vendor's.

Haile also said the company plans to enter the Ethernet market, not only with Ethernet cards, but also possibly through dual-protocol chipsets that would provide both Ethernet and token-ring connectivity on a single LAN card. Ultimately, support for both types of wholesale tiffany earrings could be built into a PC's motherboard."Traditionally, we've been the token-ring shop. But we see Ethernet as an area customers would like us to play in," he said.

Sager agreed, noting IBM will consider providing the products through an OEM agreement with an existing Ethernet supplier. He also mentioned the possibility of providing Ethernet management capabilities, but he declined to give more specifics.

Although IBM would not provide details regarding dual-protocol chipsets, analysts speculated that IBM would jointly develop such a product with National Semiconductor Corp.,which is involved in a technology exchange agreement with IBM.

IBM also outlined plans to bring out network adapters with built-in concentrator ports. The firm said it would introduce an adapter card that supports eight-port concentrators attached to it. This could save users money by enabling them to attach as many as wholesale tiffany necklaces additional users to a network through a single card. It could also be used in a superserver environment to attach multiple LAN segments to a single network interface card.

In the longer term, Haile discussed IBM's intention to bolster LAN support for multimedia capabilities. He wholesale tiffany bracelet making it easier to deploy multimedia applications on a LAN by providing support for isochronous communications. Isochronous technology lets asynchronous communications equipment communicate synchronously.