1 | SNA - a proprietary architecture defined by IBM in 1974 |
2 | Today, with the availability of Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking - APPN - on all IBM system platforms and on many platforms from other vendors, SNA is an industrial strength networking protocol, that is open and provides for any-to-any communications over most LAN and WAN technologies, between user workstations and servers of any size, and fits the needs of all the computing models (centralized, distributed, collaborative, client/server, etc.) |