The TABLON mass storage network

Abstract

This paper documents an approach by the Department of Defense for solving the massive volume digital tape storage problem. It describes a computer network called TABLON which provides several trillion (1012) bits of on-line storage simultaneously to a number of dissimilar computer systems. Such a network has potential application to any company, major institution, or publicly supported organization with the following situations: ---they currently employ a number of large scale, third-generation computer systems, ---their data base is large enough to cause physical storage and/or access problems, ---their data accumulation is growing faster than their ability to pay for devices to contain it, and ---they have a strong desire to consolidate all their computerized information into one central location