The first Host Networking System that enables channel-speed communications between multiple local and remote mainframe computers is claimed by Data Switch Corp, San Diego, California. The company says its HostNet Model 9089 provides the IBM mainframe-to-mainframe links needed by users who want to migrate to a seamless environment in which any end-user has instant access to information residing in any CPU on a network. It also provides a means to interconnect multiple logical environments created by IBM’s PR/SM partitioning feature under MVS/ESA. The 9089 interconnects up to 16 local and remote CPUs or PR/SM or Amdahl Multiple Domain Feature Domains over private fibre lines or public T-1 or T-3 facilities. The Model 9089 ships next month at from $150,000, with a system for eight channels, three of them remote, at $350,000. And a new TotalNet provides alert management and control of third-party data centre and network control systems – modem and multiplexer management, network monitoring, switch control systems, NetView and other host applications – from a single workstation. With support for four stations, 12 cont rol systems, it’s $148,200, April.
