SNA Terms and Concepts

Basic APPN Concepts

Figure 1-9

APPN Network Using a Shared-Access Transport Facility

If Node EN1 has a link definition for each of the links in the network, it can establish a direct link to any node. The link definitions needed to support direct links between Node EN1 and every other node in the APPN network are shown in Figure 1-10, “Definitions Needed for Direct Links from Node EN1 to Every Node in an APPN Network.” For a network that includes five other nodes, Node EN1 needs five link definitions:

EN1 to NNA

EN1 to EN2

EN1 to EN3

EN1 to EN4

EN1 to EN5

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