Availability Guide for Application Design

What Is Application Availability?
Availability Guide for Application Design—525637-004
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Availability and HP Products
Table 1-5. HP Communication Products That Help Provide Availability
The product... Helps provide availability because it...
Expand Provides a multiline, redundant, reliable communications protocol
among NonStop systems in a network. Refer to the Expand manuals
for details.
Multilan
(D-Series only)
Provides a reliable NETBIOS communications protocol between
NonStop systems and other systems connected on a LAN. Refer to
the Multilan manuals for details.
NonStop Access for
Networking
Provides control of a fault-tolerant LAN, enabling client/server
communication to continue uninterrupted in the event of a network
failure. Available with D-series systems only.
Section 2, Overview of Server and Network Fault Tolerance
, provides
more information. Refer to the NonStop Access for Networking
System Note for details.
NonStop TCP/IP Provides a reliable communications protocol between NonStop
systems and workstations or other systems over an Ethernet
connection.
Refer to the Introduction to HP Networking and Data Communications
or the Introduction to HP Networking and Data Communications for
G-Series Releases for an overview of this product.
ServerNet Provides the fault-tolerant architecture for connecting processors on
the S-series servers.
Refer to the Himalaya S-Series Server Description Manual.
SNAX Provides a reliable communications protocol between NonStop
systems and hosts that are not HP hosts over System Network
Architecture (SNA) lines.
Refer to the SNAX manuals for details.
TandemTalk
(D-Series only)
Provides a reliable communications protocol between NonStop
systems and Apple Macintosh computers.
Refer to the TandemTalk manuals for details.
TorusNet Provides the fault-tolerant architecture for connecting processors on
the K-series servers.
Refer to the NonStop Himalaya K1000 Server Description Manual or
the NonStop Himalaya K2000 Server Description Manual.
X25AM Provides a reliable open communications protocol between NonStop
systems and other open systems using the X.25 protocol.
Refer to the X25AM manuals for details.