CIP_TN3270.pptVIP

CIP/TN3270 Rich Colgate rcolgate@ High Performance Mainframe Access 10,000 TCP Sessions - 9 Mbytes of throughput 16,000 concurrently active TN3270 sessions 6,000 SNA physical units-7,000 frames per second CIP/CPA Platforms Profile Cisco Mainframe Channel Family Channel Interface Processor (CIP) is positioned at the high end of the channel connectivity market maximum throughput for every application maximum port density, greatest scalability fastest processing engines 30,000 concurrent TN3270 Sessions (420 TPS) TESTED Channel Port Adapter (CPA) is positioned in the midrange of the channel connectivity market all major LAN and WAN interfaces supported superior performance in mid-tier market segment cost-effective solution 10,000 concurrent TN3270 Sessions (420 TPS) TESTED CIP Management from the Mainframe CMCC Information CIP and CPA with TN3270 Server TN3270 Server in Channel Interface Processor (CIP) and Channel Port Adapter (CPA) No TCP required on mainframe SNA packet passed directly to ACF/VTAM across the channel Supports 16,000 concurrent TN3270 sessions on CIP New tested session limit : 30,000 Supports 5,000 concurrent TN3270 sessions on CPA New tested session limit : 10,000 What Is TN3270/E? There were many features of thestandard RFC1576 that did notmeet all the requirements of thenetwork, these were: Emulation of 328x printers Client request of a particular luname 3270 ATTN key SNA positive/negative response Client access to bind information 3270 structured field support Cisco’s TN3270 Server Features Clients supported: TN3270 and TN3270E TN3270E offers printing support and named LUs Multiple host support Dynamic definition of devices Load balancing and redundancy Using Local Director, Distributed Director, Network Director (Fall 1999) End-to-end visibility IP address to LU name mapping LU nailing IP precedence configuration TN3270 Architecture Multiple Host Access Direct mainframe access CIP supports multiple IP addresses Sends session request d