Title :
LAN/WAN integration: internetworking+application interoperability
Author_Institution :
Mitre Corp., USA
Abstract :
Users interconnect their LANs and WANs to support their applications. This distributed environment requires more than communications standards. This paper addresses the services required to support distributed processing and the various activities to develop the “standards” to provide these services. It discusses the ISO´s approach to open distributed processing (ODP), and describes the ODP reference model and the seven aspects of a distributed system. The Open Software Foundation´s distributed computing environment, middleware, the evolution in the marketplace of the PC LAN/WAN environment and the enterprise network goal architecture are also described
Keywords :
ISO standards; internetworking; local area networks; microcomputer applications; open systems; telecommunication standards; wide area networks; ISO; LAN/WAN integration; ODP; ODP reference model; Open Software Foundation; PC LAN/WAN environment; application interoperability; communications standards; distributed computing environment; distributed environment; distributed system; enterprise network architecture; internetworking; middleware; open distributed processing; Communication standards; Computer architecture; Distributed computing; Distributed processing; Internet; LAN interconnection; Local area networks; Middleware; Software systems; Wide area networks;
Conference_Titel :
Military Communications Conference, 1994. MILCOM '94. Conference Record, 1994 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Fort Monmouth, NJ
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1828-5
DOI :
10.1109/MILCOM.1994.473939
