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RE: xAP - The Proposed Architecture Explained...



Hi robert,

The main focus is currently to get the protocol working, and look at
basic hardware implementations.

"we've" already got wokring software and hardware, pretty good going for
less than 4 day work.

S


On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 11:05, Robert Chasmer wrote:
> Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx] drew:-
> > Whereas Multi-drop =
> >
> > -----+-------+--------+------
> >                    
> >                    
> >      _       _        _
> >     _     _      _
> >
> > And would it also be true to say that electrically, these are
> > effectively the same? (assuming the devices are passive)
>
> Ok, love the ascii art, but I'm starting to loose focus on the current
> hardware plan.  Lots of things have been discused, RS232, RS423, IP, On Wire
> etc, but I'm not sure where everything COULD fit in.  Is each display going
> to join the IP network with its own address? Are we going to have a single
> Controler that forms the link between all the devices and a single IP
> address? Or a single PC that does all the grant work with as any RS232
> points as required?
>
> The one idea I don't like is that we will be broadcasting messages to the
> whole network eg x.x.x.255, regularly for the displays to operate.  I
> appreciate that this would easily allow several machines/devices with
> different IP addresses to recieve and process display messages but is this
> really neccessary.  I know that the size of messages should be low etc. but
> thats not really the point.
>
> In a mad attempt to try and guess the current state of play I'll try my own
> bit of ascii art (DISCALIMER THIS IS PROBABLY ALL WRONG!)
>    
> ========++===============================++==== IP Network (Cat 5)
>                                       
>  +------++----------------+   +----------++-------------+
>  Display Controller        PC 01 (Mail, News, Temp,
>  Recieves Disp Messages    Weather) Sends Messages .. Other PCs
>  at 192.168.10.20:1739     to 192.168.10.20:1739  
>  or 192.168.10.255:1739    or BCast 192.168.10.255
>  +--------------+---------+   +-------------------------+
>                
>                
> ========+=======+=======+===============+====== RS423 (Could be Cat 5)
>                                      
>      [423/232]      [423/232]      [423/232]
>                                      
>    +----+----+     +----+----+     +----+----+
>      RS232         RS232         RS232 
>    Disp 01      Disp 02      Disp 03
>    +---------+     +---------+     +---------+
>
> I Look foward to the website that Mark mentioned, and some working protypes
> on display so to speak.
>




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