YOU'VE RACKED YOUR BRAIN LOOKING FOR THAT ARTICLE ON TOKEN RING. SO, FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE, THE INDEX YOU’VE WAITED ALL YEAR FOR IS FINALLY HERE THE LAN STAFF 1991 at a Glance ach December, we at E-Mail Arrives Real-World SQL BRIDGES a LAN Magazine sift A flexible, scalable, stable After years of hype, network through the year’s is- e-mail infrastructure carries integrators are selling and Bridges Buyers Guide sues and compile this list of company messages installing database servers Part 1 Nina Burns Jim Carr The LAN Staff articles, for you, our read- Interoperability, page 34 June, page 63 February, page 67 ers. Most stories are cross- referenced for easy location. Extra! Extra! Sum and Then Some LAN Legos Online services now deliver Accounting software has Bridges and routers: the build- ANNIVERSARY ISSUE news to the LAN evolved into sophisticated ing blocks of internetworks Shyamala Reddy information systems Shyamala Reddy Five Years of LAN January, page 93 J. Carlton Collins February, page 59 LAN Magazine’s first five November, page 97 years reveal the key to Finding Your Way BUYERS GUIDE building tomorrow’s networks To make your way around Window of Opportunity Patricia Schnaidt large heterogeneous networks, The X Window system may Directory—Yellow Pages and Jim Carr all signposts point to X.500 give users of PC networks the A guide to contact companies October, page 34 Lindsey Vereen best of all possible worlds in the Buyers Guide with ad- Interoperability, page 34 Lindsey Vereen dresses, phone and fax num- APPLICATIONS November, page 123 bers, and company product Fortified Projects lines Automatic Office How project management Workgroups Share The LAN Staff A new crop of workgroup enriched certified grocers An Office August, page 206 software aims to streamline Elizabeth Dougherty WordPerfect Office provides group interaction, but users February, page 93 multiplatform scheduling, Internetworking may not be ready yet e-mail, and database functions Building multiprotocol, multi- Shyamala Reddy Gateway Glue Bonny Hinners vendor enterprise networks July, page 75 How to build a messaging June, page 140 The LAN Staff system that is seamlessly August, page 102 A Board for Business integrated, totally trans- ARCNET With the right bulletin board parent, and highly reliable Network Management software, you can turn a Nina Burns Arcnet Buyers Guide Products to configure, control, hobbyist’s toy into a valuable April, page 97 The LAN Staff monitor, test, protect, and corporate asset January, page 110 inventory your enterprise Peter Stephenson InfoAlliance network’s resources November, page 85 SPC changes how we look Arcnet Grows Up The LAN Staff at LAN databases With management tools, Arc- August, page 146 Desktop Meeting Jim Carr net users save time and money Video teleconferencing brings February, page 101 Elizabeth Dougherty Network Software sights and sound to the desk- January, page 105 The network exists to solve top with FDDI’s ample Lean and Mean business problems, so we offer network bandwidth Project management software BACKUP application and system Larry Palmer makes you more efficient software and Ricky Palmer Shyamala Reddy Exabyte The LAN Staff November, page 111 February, page 85 High-speed search makes August, page 186 Exabyte the fastest Drawing on Data Mixed Messages tape backup Physical-Layer Autodesk’s database keeps As client-server e-mail Mike Hurwicz Hardware-The Basic pace with rapid growth and ac- architecture gains ground, the February, page 157 Building Blocks cess to 4.5 million records mix of the parts is the key to Your workstations will talk on Elizabeth Dougherty faster, flexible messaging the physical layer with June, page 77 Elizabeth Dougherty network interface cards, April, page 87 DECEMBER 1991 LAN MAGAZINE wiring hubs, and cable Jage Schiff Start Your Engines Elizabeth Dougherty The LAN Staff November, page 145 New client-server front ends February, page 109 August, page 28 are easy to use and deliver Just Add Water functionality and flexibility DISTRIBUTED Server and Peripherals How the Interop show network Mike Hurwicz COMPUTING How to share files, applica- was installed overnight December, page 34 tions, printers, and faxes over Peter De Vries The Peer Connection the departmental network January, page 127 DATABASES APPC and LU6.2 are the The LAN Staff cornerstones of distributed August, page 74 The Light Option Client Confessions computing in an IBM Fiber gives First Brands the Front ends for database en- SAA environment CABLING flexibility to start small and gines are coming, albeit slowly Peter Stephenson grow as it goes Shyamala Reddy June, page 121 Present and Shyamala Reddy January, page 99 Future Perfect September, page 151 DOWNSIZING Vision and planning enabled Drawing on Data Yale University to build a suc- Loop de Loop LANs Autodesk’s database keeps Downsizing (Tutorial) cessful campus wiring plant Networking makes Six Flags pace with rapid growth and Jim Carr Martha Heller parks screamingly efficient access to 4.5 million records October, page 23 October, page 155 Shyamala Reddy Elizabeth Dougherty February, page 123 June, page 77 The Up Side Untethering the of Downsizing Cable-Bound Prescription for a LAN Help for the Weary Downsizing from mainframes New wireless networks finally A Fort Worth hospital cures Techs and TIDB technical to PC LANs can be rewarding, free users from cabling hassles its growing pains with a support databases provide if the expectations are realistic and deliver viable performance mainframe-based LAN information to tech support and the move is well-planned Shyamala Reddy Sam Diamond Tom Henderson Anand Rao April, page 119 June, page 131 June, page 156 June, page 51 Wringing Out Token Ring Present and InfoAlliance DOCUMENT- The Microtest Ring Scanner Future Perfect SPC changes how we look MANAGEMENT makes it easy to check out your Vision and planning enabled at LAN databases Token Ring network and cable Yale University to build a suc- Jim Carr A Fine-Tuned File Finder Howard Marks cessful campus wiring plant February, page 101 How to create document June, page 151 Martha Heller management systems October, page 155 Real-World SQL Ruth Helpern CASE STUDY After years of hype, network December, page 51 Slammer Net integrators are selling and Airborne LAN California’s Contra Costa installing database servers EDITORIAL INDEX One of the world’s largest County uses an X.25 Jim Carr broadband networks keeps network to catch criminals June, page 63 1991 at a Glance the Air Force flying Shyamala Reddy A guide to finding Shyamala Reddy May, page 111 SQL Front Ends (Tutorial) this year’s stories April, page 141 Jim Carr The LAN Staff Speedy and Smart January, page 22 December, page 127 Building On Carnegie Mellon uses a A systems integrator builds a 530Mbps backbone-in-a-box DIRECTORY SERVICES ELECTRONIC MAIL contact management system topology and an expert system Sam Johnson Patricia Schnaidt Finding Your Way E-Mail Arrives December, page 43 and Shyamala Reddy To make your way around A flexible, scalable, stable March, page 127 large heterogeneous networks, e-mail infrastructure carries Connective Cures all signposts point to X.500 company messages NIH’s LAN artery connects To Catch a Thief Lindsey Vereen Nina Burns researchers worldwide. A New York police Interoperability, page 34 Interoperability, page 34 Melanie McMullen department uses electronic December, page 107 forms to slash paperwork DISASTER RECOVERY Gateway Glue Shyamala Reddy How to build a messaging Fortified Projects July, page 97 Out of the Ashes system that is seamlessly How project management Planning will let your business integrated, totally trans- enriched certified grocers CLIENT-SERVER recover from disaster parent, and highly reliable Elizabeth Dougherty Pat Becker Nina Burns February, page 93 Building On January, page 73 April, page 97 A systems integrator builds a Give Me Shelter contact management system DISKLESS PCs Mixed Messages A nonprofit organization uses Sam Johnson As client-server e-mail a LAN to find shelter for low- December, page 43 Hot or Not? architecture gains ground, the income individuals The much-touted diskless PC mix of the parts is the key to market has yet to catch fire faster, flexible messaging 128 LAN MAGAZINE DECEMBER 1991 Elizabeth Dougherty Pat Thayer Bruce McClure, all signposts point to X.500 April, page 87 The IEEE’s 802.3 chair looks Founder and Chairman, Lindsey Vereen at Ethernet and its future Synernetics Interoperability, page 34 ENTERPRISE Jim Carr With FDDI’s growing NETWORKS February, page 26 popularity, standards and Help Wanted testing issues remain Wanted: a multivendor net- The Peer Connection EXPERT SYSTEMS unresolved work management system APPC and LU6.2 are the Shyamala Reddy between ping and pie in the sky cornerstones of distributed Postcards from the Expert May, page 26 Sharon Fisher computing in an IBM Expert systems can provide Interoperability, page 28 SAA environment better network support, less Unsnarling FDDI’s Kinks Peter Stephenson downtime, better use of FDDI provides special OSI Blossoms June, page 121 personnel, and improve your management features, but it To come to full flower, OSI corporation’s bottom line poses some unique dilemmas requires new players, new Red Routing Blue James Cavanaugh for users rules, and a committment to How to integrate NetWare October, page 83 Shyamala Reddy an open market source routing into an June, page 36 Pat Becker enterprise IBM Token Ring Smart Sniffing Interoperability, page 20 Bob Panza Network General’s Sniffer, INTERNETWORKING September, page 47 with its added expert system, Playing Together is a manager’s full trouble- Eeny, Meeny, Mini, Mo If the pieces of complex Whither OSI? shooting partner With other options available, networks don’t all play The most complex of Peter Stephenson minicomputers must fight to together, it could mean standards still battles skepti- November, page 63 be the platform choice headaches for end users cal users and incomplete Shyamala Reddy Michael Hurwicz implementations Speedy and Smart September, page 123 Interoperability, page 6 Shyamala Reddy Carnegie Mellon uses a June, page 111 530Mbps backbone-in-a-box Exploring Extra! Square Pegs ir topology and an expert system Attachmate’s 3270 gateways Round Holes Who’s Behind the LAN? Patricia Schnaidt deliver reliable SNA functions Hughes LAN Systems offers As companies integrate PC and Shyamala Reddy James Chappell an internetworking solution LANs into enterprise March, page 127 March, page 93 for DOS workstations networks, the LAN manager’s Bonny Hinners role becomes more complex FIBER-OPTIC LAN Legos April, page 150 and more important. NETWORKS Bridges and routers: the build- Elizabeth Dougherty ing blocks of internetworks INTERVIEW October, page 73 High-Speed Twist Shyamala Reddy Twisted-pair FDDI promises February, page 59 Patrick Courtin, President ETHERNET to speed network traffic to and CEO, Proteon 100Mbps over copper wire A Leaner Mac Attack Recently gone public, Proteon 10BaseT Takes Off Lindsey Vereen A more efficient routing factors cutting-edge The 10BaseT standard is September, page 89 scheme reduces AppleTalk’s technology, standardization, giving Ethernet a mid-life kick hunger for bandwidth, making and strategic partnerships into Elizabeth Dougherty Inside FDDI-II it a better fit for enterprise its formula for success May, page 71 The next generation of FDDI network integration Shyamala Reddy transmits circuit-switched and Shyamala Reddy September, page 26 CMOL Simmers packet data July, page 67 The soup’s on for mixed-media Gary C. Kessler Jim Groff, Marketing network management. IBM March, page 117 INTEROPERABILITY Director, Apple Computer and 3Com have cooked up a Personal computing in way to manage Ethernet and Is Plastic Fantastic? Constructing organizations isn’t about Token Ring, and the IEEE Plastic optical fiber, if it A Network isolation. It’s about how they is listening. becomes a standard and less Four strategies for building hook to corporate networks, Elizabeth Dougherty expensive, could be a viable interoperable, multivendor, databases, and applications. 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Don’t Believe the Hype draft provides the basis for Elizabeth Dougherty Origen isn’t the best thing to The Inside Track managing a multivendor, March, page 77 hit LANs since coax, but it An insider’s guide to becoming hub-based Ethernet alleviates the tedium of a Certified NetWare Engineer Joe Skorupa Combatting Enterprise installing NetWare servers with the least sweat possible. March, page 69 Entropy Howard Marks Kristin Marks Single-vendor solutions can’t November, page 150 June, page 97 Network of Elves solve multivendor global Distributed processing can network headaches The Dynamic Duo LANs by the Book make backup faster, more Jim Carr How to use network monitors Maintaining a LAN can be efficient, and more flexible March, page 38 and protocol analyzers to more than a small business Mike Hurwicz tackle tactical problems and bargained for. 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Circle Reader Service Number 86 DECEMBER 1991 LAN MAGAZINE E X XTreeNet Is Your Robert Panza POWER PROTECTION PRODUCTS OF LAN Tour Guide November, page 34 THE YEAR XTreeNet simplifies Safe, Not Sorry maneuvering through Starting Out Small Power outages don’t Products of the Year network file systems Network operating systems discriminate. Use a UPS. LAN Magazine honors the Bonny Hinners from D-Link, Hayes, and US Michelle McLean winners in 30 categories March, page 145 Sage are affordable and December, page 69 The LAN Staff reliable January, page 36 NETWORK Bonny Hinners UPS Chart OPERATING SYSTEMS July, page 104 The LAN Staff PROJECT R December, page 77 MANAGEMENT At the Core Tangle-Free LAN Harvesting the fruits of peer- Web is a flexible, low-cost, Fortified Projects to-peer, dedicated server, and peer-to-peer NOS How project management distributed Mac NOS Bonny Hinners enriched certified grocers offerings February, page 131 Elizabeth Dougherty Elizabeth Dougherty February, page 93 November, page 46 Deborah Triant, President and CEO, Sitka T Lean and Mean Banyan Digs New Roots Sitka goes back to basics to MAN Project management software Banyan and SCO intertwine turn the company around and makes you more efficient to form a synergistic product meet user needs with techno- Shyamala Reddy that offers VINES on SCO logically advanced products February, page 85 Unix Patricia Schnaidt Y¥ Lindsey Vereen July, page 26 ROUTERS November, page 57 LAN Legos Betting on LANtastic PRINTING Bridges and routers: the build- Network management: five OSI Blossoms ing blocks of internetworks insider’s tips on how to get the To come to full flower, OSI Printing Progress Shyamala Reddy tiny RAM LAN to perform requires new players, new Printers connecting directly to February, page 59 like a thoroughbred rules, and a committment networks are part of a flurry of Don Person to an open market products that improve network Routers Buyers Guide September, page 63 Pat Becker printing Part 2 Interoperability, page 20 Elizabeth Dougherty The LAN Staff LANtastic by a Nose May, page 55 March, page 103 Five more tips that can turn Whither OSI? your tiny RAM LANtastic The most complex of stan- The TCP/IP Way Routing Protocols into a full-fledged dards still battles skeptical Print servers and directly Jim Carr network system users and incomplete imple- connected printers help solve June, page 23 Don Person mentations the problems of sharing October, page 93 Shyamala Reddy printers on TCP/IP networks Paul Severino, June, page 111 Elizabeth Dougherty President, CEO, Make the Leap October, page 123 and Founder, Wellfleet Multiprocessing NOSs PERFORMANCE With sales tripling annually, are the next step TUNING PRODUCT GUIDES Wellfleet strives to share the Patricia Schnaidt high-end router market now February, page 38 Bearing the Load Arcnet Buyers Guide dominated by cisco Systems Load testing requires The LAN Staff Patricia Schnaidt Ray Noorda, substantial planning January, page 110 and Jim Carr Chairman, President, Howard Nevin April, page 26 and CEO, Novell February, page 53 Bridges Buyers Guide Will Noorda adapt to change Part | SECURITY and listen to customers’ needs Gearing Up The LAN Staff to keep Novell on top of the A systems approach to optimi- February, page 67 Germ Warfare networking hill? zing network performance Combat strategies for keeping Patricia Schnaidt Mike Klein A Guide to Ethernet Cards the worms, trojan horses, and Jim Carr February, page 47 The LAN Staff and viruses out of networks October, page 26 May, page 78 Fardad ‘Don’ Kazem-Zadeh PORTABLE NETWORKS April, page 107 Red Streaks in Routers Buyers Guide The Blue Sky From Hand to LANs Part 2 Safe and Secure With the blue thunder of When pen-based, palmtop The LAN Staff To lock up your LAN, the LANRES/VM, an IBM computers fall into users’ March, page 103 combination is an administra- mainframe helps NetWare hands, it’s only natural to want tive plan and products that users, shooting red lightning to connect them to LANs UPS Chart give maximum protection with across the universe Jim Carr The LAN Staff minimal intrusion September, page 115 December, page 77 134 LAN MAGAZINE DECEMBER 1991 Peter Stephenson Bonny Hinners Microtest’s easy-to-use, Windows 3.0 operation September, page 34 January, page 133 inexpensive comm server on NetWare and addresses the problems of LAN Manager networks SERVERS prker Demystifying its PC-based brethren Tom Henderson Performance Mike Hurwicz April, page 162 Justifying Fax Servers Internetix’s network July, page 126 Don’t ignore the broader simulation tools show the Workgroups Share issues of workflow and pro- effects of changing the NetWare by Numbers An Office ductivity when researching network before you do it Support for NFS, TCP/IP, WordPerfect Office provides online fax products Tom Henderson and OSI brings NetWare 3.11 multiplatform scheduling, Tom Dolan May, page 154 into the enterprise arena e-mail, and database functions May, page 63 Tom Henderson Bonny Hinners Don’t Believe the Hype October, page 177 June, page 140 Lanport-ll Solves Origen isn’t the best thing to Comm Server Ills hit LANs since coax, but it Norton Utilities Wringing Out 1 sken Ring Microtest’s easy-to-use, alleviates the tedium of Go Network The Microtest Ring Scanner inexpensive comm server installing NetWare servers Norton Utilities offers disk makes it easy to check out your addresses the problems of its Howard Marks maintenance and some Token Ring network and cable PC-based brethren November, page 150 network support Howard Marks Mike Hurwicz Bonny Hinners June, page 151 July, page 126 Exabyte March, page 134 High-speed search makes XTreeNet Is Your More is More Exabyte the fastest PowerBuilder for LAN Tour Guide Superservers boost network tape backup Power Windows XTreeNet simplifies performance with processing Mike Hurwicz Object-orientation and 4GL maneuvering through power and storage to spare February, page 157 are its features network file systems Shyamala Reddy Tom Henderson Bonny Hinners October, page 113 Getting Wired and Terry Hickman March, page 145 Over Wireless December, page 114 Printing Progress Motorola’s Altair can provide TOKEN RING Printers connecting directly to a cost-effective and easy-to- Resourcefulness networks are part of a flurry of install wireless Ethernet LAN IBS’ DataClub: a distributed CMOL Simmers products that improve network Macintosh network The soup’s on for mixed-media printing Bonny Hinners network management. IBM Elizabeth Dougherty February, page 147 and 3Com have cooked up a May, page 55 way to manage Ethernet and Square Pegs in Token Ring, and the IEEE The TCP/IP Way Round Holes is listening. Print servers and directly Hughes LAN Systems offers Elizabeth Dougherty connected printers help solve an internetworking solution March, page 77 the problems of sharing for DOS workstations printers on TCP/IP networks Bonny Hinners Patrick Courtin, President Elizabeth Dougherty April, page 150 and CEO, Proteon October, page 123 Recently gone public, Proteon Starting Out Small factors cutting-edge STORAGE Network operating systems technology, standardization, from D-Link, Hayes, and US and strategic partnerships into Abuzz About Arrays Mike Hurwicz Sage are affordable and its formula for success The latest word in storage, October, page 166 reliable Shyamala Reddy disk arrays offer a fault-toler- Bonny Hinners September, page 26 ant, high-performance solu- Health Food July, page 104 tion for server storage needs For Programmers Keeping Pace Elizabeth Dougherty Visible Systems’ CASE tool Taking a Leap of Faith With Ethernet in sight and July, page 83 helps software designers work Legato’s and Mountain’s FDDI nipping at its heels, faster, with less frustration backup products for NetWare Token Ring forges forward, TEST DRIVE and fewer mistakes and NFS inspire confidence offering companies the Mike Hurwicz Bonny Hinners interoperability they demand Counting on a Network May, page 138 May, page 118 Elizabeth Dougherty Brightwork, Horizon, and September, page 103 Triticom LAN inventory Help for the Weary Tangle-Free LAN packages automate LAN Techs and TIDB technical Web is a flexible, low-cost, Wringing Out Token Ring equipment audits support databases provide peer-to-peer NOS The Microtest Ring Scanner Bonny Hinners information to tech support Bonny Hinners makes it easy to check out your September, page 156 Tom Henderson February, page 131 Token Ring network and cable June, page 156 Howard Marks Crystal Ball Windows Dressing June, page 151 Pharos’ Status* Mac creates Lanport-ll Solves Automated Design’s Windows Macintosh system profiles Comm Server Ills Workstation cleans up DECEMBER 1991 LAN MAGAZINE TRADE SHOWS was a show of solidarity of the networks headaches Shyamala Reddy LAN industry Jim Carr October, page 67 Comdex Fall Dave Brambert March, page 38 Networking at the largest December, page 101 WIRELESS NETWORKS computer show in the U.S. Dash to Cell Relay Patricia Schnaidt TUTORIAL Understanding the master Getting Wired and Jim Carr plan for the coming high- Over Wireless January, page 121 Application Servers speed broadband revolution Motorola’s Altair can provide Jim Carr William Stallings a cost-effective and easy-to- Comdex Spring May, page 23 September, page 75 install wireless Ethernet LAN Some interesting network Mike Hurwicz products appeared amid a for- Downsizing 1 Still Don’t kNow October, page 166 est of Windows applications, Jim Carr Will a recent standardization multimedia, and palmtop October, page 23 agreement salvage ISDN or Untethering the computers has the technology of the Cable-Bound Jim Carr Glossary of LAN Terms future passed itself by? New wireless networks finally July, page 91 A—D Shyamala Reddy free users from cabling hassles Jim Carr and Bonny Hinners May, page 47 and deliver viable performance Comnet West March, page 23 Shyamala Reddy Where WAN meets LAN, April, page 119 frame relay steals the show Glossary of LAN Terms Patricia Schnaidt E—M Wireless Networking September, page 139 Jim Carr and Bonny Hinners Jim Carr April, page 23 Tet (GCL avis RETR Mase Tet November, page 23 Interop MARKET Possibilities of multivendor, Glossary of LAN Terms REPORT WIRING HUBS multiprotocol LANs N—R FORECASTING The LAN Staff Jim Carr and Bonny Hinners NEW HIGHS Star of the LAN December, page 89 July, page 23 As wiring hubs deliver net- work, bridging, routing, and LANs Take Cebit Glossary of LAN Terms wide area services, they must Networks are more popular S—Trigger deliver higher speeds, more than ever at the world’s largest Jim Carr and Bonny Hinners services, and higher reliability office technology exhibition August, page 23 Lindsey Vereen Patricia Schnaidt November, page 135 May, page 103 Glossary of LAN Terms Less Is Faster Twisted—Z Frame relay is acclaimed as WORKGROUP Jim Carr and Bonny Hinners the premier way to intercon- SOFTWARE September, page 23 nect LANs across the wide area Automatic Office Interop’s Challenge Frank Henderson A new crop of workgroup Jim Carr and Joseph McCoy software aims to streamline ThelA\ December, page 23 July, page 48 group interaction, but users WO may not be ready yet Routing Protocols Service for Your MAN Shyamala Reddy Jim Carr By offering secure, high-speed July, page 75 June, page 23 data transfer, Switched Multi-Megabit Data Service Roger Moody, President SNA and LU6.2 may soon become an and CEO, Coordination Connectivity interconnection success Technology Jim Carr Gary C. Kessler On the verge of shipping To- February, page 23 October, page 47 gether, Moody discusses the progress of groupware and Mactivity SQL Front Ends Simplifying SONET OS/2 Apple revealed strategic Jim Carr SONET is emerging as an im- Shyamala Reddy directions and vendors January, page 22 portant global June, page 26 debuted products data transport scheme Elizabeth Dougherty Wireless Networking Gary C. Kessler Workgroups Share September, page 145 Jim Carr July, page 36 An Office November, page 23 WordPerfect Office provides Networld Boston Try, Try Again multiplatform scheduling, Major announcements WIDE AREA In looking at new ways to e-mail, and database functions and technical adventures NETWORKING make ISDN work, some Bonny Hinners at Networld Boston vendors emphasize data and June, page 140 The LAN Staff Combatting Enterprise call it by a different name April, page 133 Entropy Single-vendor solutions can’t Networld Dallas solve multivendor global No blockbuster news, but it 136 LAN MAGAZINE DECEMBER 1991