[FADCA] Autum TAPR Newsletts has it all!

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Bud,
NJ is supposed to be part of the FlexNet network.
I think you are going to find that there is going
to be a lot of puffery in some of that stuff that
is put out. My personal bent on all of this is that
we as users of our network (along with the other 
ROSE/FPAC users) have not done a very good job
telling others about what it has to offer. I am
just as much to blame as anyone else, so the end
result is that you see that poor technical selections
make better standings with the public because the
"marketing machine" worked well. We have seen this
time and time again, VHS vs Beta, OS/2 vs Windows,
it goes on and on.

I think that we are going to find that we have a
real perl of a network, much better than any of
us really realize, with the upgrading that we are
planning to do, we will be able to really compare
network protocols and then we should be able to
come to some determination. In my experience each
protocol has its strong and weak points, and you
use the protocol that best fits the particular type
of operation at hand.

Self configuring networks work well for rapid
deployment of devices, such as when they are tossed
from a aircraft, as was done in Bosnia. This type
of network is usually small and transitory in nature.
Each node has a model of the network kept in memory
so that it knows where to route the traffic. It does
not demand much initital intervention of the admins.
SEDAN is a example of this type of network.


Manually and semi manually configured networks work
well for large areas, and give the network admins
much more control over how the network is set up.
Also allowing for such things as emergency operations
with much greater flexability. Usually these networks
use some form of hierarchical routing which keeps the
routing tables to a relatively small size compared to
those which have to keep the whole network modeled in
memory.
FlexNet is midway between a self configuring network
and a manually configured network. It can self configur
but some manual work is required.

FPAC/ROSE needs manual configuration, so you have to do
some network planning and also set up addressing and add
addresses to the network, but switches only have to know
enough about routing to get the packet on to the next
switch along the route. You do not need massive memory
to store all of the network information in memory.




> -----Original Message-----
> From: bud Thompson [mailto:budt@cfl.rr.com]
> 
> Deltona
> Sunday Nov 10 0610EDT
> 
> Here is part of a response I received from the author of the 
> e-mail article
> after he looked at the interactive map on the FADCA web site:
> 
> "I did download the map of your packet network.  VERY 
> IMPRESSIVE.  We do not
> have anything like that here in NJ. "
> 
> bud N0IA
> 


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