Notes: LANSpecs 11-5-93

This shareware utility is just a front end for a Microsoft Access database (single flat table.. so far) with network transmission protocols. The protocols are mostly LAN-based ones, although I will add modem, broadband, WAN, and others on a routine basis. I will also increase the complexity of the database to include signaling characteristics; supported NOS protocols; error-checking/correction syntax; electical or optical properties; corresponding CCITT, IEEE, ECMA, ANSI and other specification; vendors; and anything else reasonable suggested by users. I will be adding SONET, SDMS, ATM, T-1, and other protocols in the near term. The goal is to maintain a single, smart database for protocol standards and limitations. I welcome your suggestions.

If you like it, send $10 to Network Performance Institute (NPI) to defray software design and database maintenance costs. Address is: PO Box 41-4371, Miami Beach FL 33141. 

You might note that NPI has another shareware tool, called RingStat, which calculates IBM Token-Ring utilization levels, total wiring lengths, or token rotation time with two of the three parameters. If you have a protocol analyzer you can get TRT and utilization to solve for the missing wiring path. If you have a TDR and can get lobe wiring lengths, most server monitors will provide TRT so that you can solve for utilization level. The McGraw-Hill book, The Token-Ring Management Guide, includes the formulas for generating these solutions.

NPI also has some commercial software for LAN design, including LANModel (1991), LANBuild (1992), and LANCAD (1993). A shareware copy of LANModel is available with the McGraw-Hill book, LAN Performance Optimization.

					- Martin Nemzow
D:\VB\LANSPECS\LANSPECS.ZIP
LANSPC.ZIP
NET Protocol Database
Protocols Limitations Facts LAN Source Info
This shareware utility is just a front end for a Microsoft Access database (single flat table.. so far) with network transmission protocols. Database with information included. The protocols are mostly LAN-based ones. VB3 Application. Requires VBRUN300.DLL. Shareware. 
