Data General Corp this week expanded its Open Systems Interconnection offerings with five new products under the DG/OSI Communications Architecture banner. The company claims a complete seven-layer implementation of the standard. DG/File Transfer, Access and Management – DG/FTAM – is designed to support transparent file transfer and management between its own minis and systems that meet the FTAM spec; it runs under AOS/VS II, needs DG/OTS and OpneNMS and is $1,500 to $17,400 depending on Eclipse, in the fourth quarter. DG/OSI Applications Platform Interface, DG/OAPI is a C language subroutine library and toolkit that enables value-added resellers and skilled users create Open Systems applications that can communicate across heterogenous networks, under AOS/VS II with DG/OTS, and is $2500 to $29,500, fourth quarter. DG/OSI Transport Services, DG/OTS, is designed to meet the specs of Open System layers two to seven, and a superset of the company’s proprietart Xodiac Transport Services provides routing and end system transport services over local and wide area networks; $900 to $10,440; fourth quarter. The company flags DG/Open Network Management System, DG/OpenNMS, introduced in October 1988, which provides network monitoring and control for DG/OSI Communications Architecture, the Xodiac networking architecture, Personal Computer*Integration and user-developed network applications. And DG/X400, launched in March 1987 implements the Open Systems message handling system for Comprehensive Electronic Office users, enabling exchange of messages and documents with other X400 systems. The company also said it would join the OSI/Network Management Forum, Bernardsville, New Jersey.
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