The IBM 3720 was a communications controller (

front-end processor A front end processor (FEP), or a communications processor, is a small-sized computer which interfaces to the host computer a number of networks, such as SNA, or a number of peripheral devices, such as terminals, disk units, printers and tap ...

) made by IBM, suitable for use with IBM

System/390 The IBM System/390 is a discontinued mainframe product family implementing the ESA/390, the fifth generation of the System/360 instruction set architecture. The first computers to use the ESA/390 were the Enterprise System/9000 (ES/90 ...

. The 3720, introduced in 1986, was capable of supporting up to 60 communications lines, and was a smaller version of the 3725. Official service support was withdrawn in 1999 in favour of the

IBM 3745 The IBM 3745 is the latest and last of a 37xx family of communications controllers for the IBM mainframe environment. As of mid-2009 there were an estimated 7,000+ of the larger 3745 models still in active production status, down from 20,000 or m ...

. The IBM 3720 is unrelated to the similarly-numbered

IBM 3270 The IBM 3270 is a family of block oriented display and printer computer terminals introduced by IBM in 1971 and normally used to communicate with IBM mainframes. The 3270 was the successor to the IBM 2260 display terminal. Due to the text ...

display terminal system.

References

External links

IBM 3720 Communication Controller Service Guide (PDF)
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