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Specifications

The HIPPI Specification can be split in the following parts:

• HIPPI Physical Layer HIPPI - PH (ANSI X3T9.3/91-005) ( hippi-ph_8.2.ps ).

• HIPPI Link Encapsulation HIPPI - LE ( hippi-le_3.4.ps )
• HIPPI Switch Control HIPPI - SC ( hippi-sc_2.7.ps )
• HIPPI Framing Protocol HIPPI - FP (hippi-fp_4.4.ps )
  • hippi-fp_amend_a.ps
  • hippi-fp_amend_sd-3.ps
• HIPPI over ATM ( hippi-atm_1.5x.ps )
• HIPPI - IPI ( hippi-ipi-0194.ps )
• HIPPI and Fibre Channel ( hippi_and_fc_coexistence.ps )
• hippi-mi_2.6.ps
• hippi_ip_survey_9403.ps

Postscriptfiles can best be downloaded from anonymous ftp.network.com

Specifications

The Serial HIPPI implementers group made a specification for Serial HIPPI that overcomes the length limit of 25 m as specified in HIPPI-PH.

This specification provides the physical, optical, electrical and logical specifications of a serial HIPPI extender for the parallel HIPPI-PH standard.

Postscript files of the specifications can be downloaded from ftp.network.com

• hippi-serial_1.5.ps
• hippi-serial_1.5_changes.ps

The following documents can help to have a better understanding of the HIPPI specifications

• General Introduction to HIPPI: one page overview

• Introduction to the HIPPI Specification: a more detailed overview

A very good article by Don Tolmie, LANL and Don Flanagan, HNF has been publiced in , DATA COMMUNICATIONS. of May 8, 1995.

HIPPI: It's Not Just for Supercomputers Anymore

This was the fifth in an ongoing series on high-speed LAN technologies. Earlier articles have addressed 100VG-AnyLAN
(see "100 VG-AnyLAN: The Other Fast Ethernet," March 1995),
Fibre Channel (see February 1995),
FDDI (see December 1994),
and fast Ethernet (see November 1994).

Data Communications Magazine is a publication of the McGraw-Hill Companies

This is one of the CERN High Speed Interconnect pages - 12 July 1995 - Arie van Praag