Multiprotocol Transport Networking (MPTN) Architecture, Version 2

This Guide introduces the concepts and the benefits to the user community of the Multiprotocol Transport Networking (MPTN) architecture. MPTN allows an application associated with one networking protocol to run without change over a different networking protocol. The impact of the MPTN architecture on the user community is anticipated in achievement of true transport independence for the communications interfaces (such as XTI, sockets, CPI-C), removal of restrictions on networks where applications can run, and increased connectivity between applications in different networks. This Guide explains the rationale for using MPTN, and describes an architecture model. As background information, it includes a summary of concerns that have commonly arisen regarding the MPTN approach to mixed-protocol networking, along with responses to those concerns. The Open Group has published specifications for Multiprotocol Transport Networking.

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Technical Guides

Catalog number G506
ISBN 1859121160
Jan 1996

54 pages. height 28 cm.

Was G306 Multiprotocol Transport Networking (MPTN) Architecture 15/01/1994

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