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From: kwe@bu-cs.BU.EDU (kwe@bu-it.bu.edu (Kent W. England))
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: U.S. Air Force Award of the ULANA Contract
Message-ID: <25188@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 3 Oct 88 18:46:54 GMT
References: <8809271246.AA01355@ulana.b.mitre.org.>
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In article <8809271246.AA01355@ulana.b.mitre.org.> 
ulana@ulana.b.mitre.ORG writes:
>
>
>     The Electronic Systems Division (ESD) of the U.S. Air Force 
>is pleased to announce the award of the Unified Local Area 
>Network Architecture (ULANA) contracts.  
[...]
>
>     The ULANA program will provide standardized Local Area 
>Networking components based on the IEEE 802.3 standard and the 
>DoD suite of protocols (TCP/IP, Telnet, FTP, SMTP, UDP, ICMP) The 
>components available from the ULANA contract will minimize 
>"unique" LAN implementations within the Air Force and permit 
>interconnectivity between Air Force standard computer systems.  
>
[...]
>
>     Other equipment provided under the ULANA contract include 
>terminal servers, bridges, DDN gateway, LAN encryption and 
>media attachment units.  The media supported by the ULANA 
>components include baseband (both 10base2 and 10base5), dual 
>cable broadband, single cable broadband, fiber, and twisted pair.  
>

	Why didn't you just send a couple of bright Air Force officers
out to InterOp last week with some spec sheets and some POs?  You
could have saved yourself a lot of money on consulting fees and you
could have actually seen the stuff work before you bought it.

	Works for me.