Received: from funet.fi by NRI.NRI.Reston.VA.US id aa25276; 21 May 90 10:34 EDT Received: by funet.fi; id AA24995; Mon, 21 May 90 17:32:53 +0300 Message-Id: <9005211432.AA24995@funet.fi> Date: Mon, 21 May 90 17:32:53 +0300 From: Juha Heinanen To: dave@sword.bellcore.com Cc: smds@NRI.Reston.VA.US In-Reply-To: Dave Piscitello's message of Mon, 21 May 90 09:55:42 EDT <9005211355.AA01133@sword.bellcore.com> Subject: worldwide SMDS service? Status: O I would not be surprised to see SMDS like offerings in Europe prior to any standards effort. In Finland the State PTT will start SMDS pilot in the Fall and FUNET will most likely participate. They are going to install three 140Mb rings in three cities and connect them at 34Mb. SMDS equipment is currently manufactured in Europe by at least Alcatel and Siemens. The European standards bodies seems to have some fight between SMDS and B-ISDN but I don't know more details. Anyway SMDS will be a service offered in Europe and it would be nice if it had international scope even connecting Europe and the US. -- Juha