[1939] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
A Tiny More on Infolan
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Abe)
Thu Jan 9 17:49:38 1992
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 92 18:49 GMT
From: George Abe <0004247140@mcimail.com>
To: com-priv <com-priv@psi.com>
To: Dave <Dave.Morton@ecrc.de>
To: matsb <matsb@sics.se>
Some Clarifications on Infonet Services
(1) X.25 Services (Product Name: Infonet)
SVCs and PVCs
Runs on NCR-Comten and Siemens packet switches. (Identical
with Deutsche Bundespost equipment).
Worldwide coverage
(2) IP Services (Product Name: Infolan)
Infolan runs on cisco AGS 3+ routers. Overlayed on a TDM
net (supplied by N.E.T.) and, in some cases, raw digital
circuits. NO X.25 overlay. No tunneling. The X.25 net is
a geographic and dialup extension of Infolan, not the
transmission platform.
Infolan has a gateway to our X.25 network. If users want
dial X.3 access to Telnet, no problem, provided the user has
a good protocol converter.
Routers and TDMs provisioned in Hong Kong, Europe and North
America under one autonomous system.
PVCs only, for now.
True, Infolan does not have Internet access to the open DNS.
This may change. But given our non-Internet, intra-institutional
market approach, I'm not sure that I need it. I also don't know
the mechanism or commercial value.
George Abe
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Subject: Re: A Little Bit on Infolan
Infolan is exclusively X.25 based - right ?
Or is this just here in Europe ?
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Subject: Re: A Little Bit on Infolan
A comment,
Thanks to Mr. Jack Haverty of Oracle in pointing out
that Infolan represents a non-ANS, non-CIX option for
commercial connectivity. Infonet's IP service is
merchandised under the product name of Infolan and is
sold worldwide. We have cisco routers in Hong Kong,
US, Canada and Europe fully meshed under common network
management. Infolan was featured as a Leading
Technology Product in the December issue of Data
Communications magazine. There's nothing else like it.
You should note that Infolan only provides (to my knowledge)
so called Private Virtual networks using X.25, and now IP as
well.
Internet access to the open DNS supported Internet is not
part of their offering.
--mats
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Subject: Re: A Little Bit on Infolan
Infolan is exclusively X.25 based - right ?
Or is this just here in Europe ?
No, wrong in both cases. Infolan uses a mix of ITT-COMTEN
equipmnet for X.25 and SDLC services, as well as dial up
aync, at least this was true a couple of years ago. Now they
have also introduced cisco based Internet IP private virtual
networks on top of it.
I am not sure if they run the IP stuff over X.25 or if they
run a TDM type bandwidth muxing layer below. Maybe someone
here could inform of this?
--matrs
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