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To: Sleeperz who wrote (22)	11/23/1996 12:32:00 PM
From: Chris Ready	of 30

The reason for the Olicom agreement ties directly into the exiting ATM SNA market place, practically no one does Token Ring emulated LANs. Cisco doesn't, Fore shies away from it. Yet there are over 50K plus IBM SNA networks still in existence today still running Token Ring. A lot of end users talk about moving to ethernet, but that means a whole infrastructure migration and costs bucks. Those folks want their precious dollars to last three to five years(NIC cards, cabling, Hubs/switches, routers/bridges) before they have to upgrade/replace again. Moving to switched ethernet is realistically a short term fix to a longer term problem, especially if you are a token ring shop. So the answer is "yes" there is still plenty of life left and mixing the right technologies together will allow those 50K token ring networks to grow while they plan for the future. The Olicom adapter provides ethernet and token ring LANE support which is what the industry needs and requires. Chris

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