@Home Chooses Sun's Ultra Enterprise Clusters as a Key Component of Network Backbone.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 8, 1996--@Home Network Corporation has selected the Sun(TM) Ultra(TM) Enterprise(TM) Clusters as the server backbone for @Home's high-speed Internet See broadband. service, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Inc. The Sun high-availability clusters will support email, World Wide Web access and Internet news services, while delivering continuous system uptime for @Home's national Internet network. "Our goal is to create a high-speed network that will allow users to connect to the Internet at speeds never before imagined," said Tom Jermoluk, president and chief executive of @Home. "To achieve this we're relying on our corporate partners to provide leading-edge technology. Sun has done that with its Ultra Enterprise clusters, delivering systems that provide unmatched performance and uptime." Ultra Enterprise Cluster HA The Ultra Enterprise Cluster HA servers are data service and application failover platforms for the high-availability market. Spanning from the Ultra Enterprise 2 to the Ultra Enterprise 6000, the new systems are the industry's most scalable line of cluster solutions. Sun's new clusters are based on a new "smart cluster" concept, which delivers a turnkey solution and guarantees timely deployment. By linking multiple Ultra Enterprise servers together Sun delivers leading database and application performance and can achieve higher levels of availability than can be provided by single system environments. @Home Network Corporation distributes high-speed interactive services to residences, businesses and schools using the cable industry's hybrid-fiber coaxial (HFC 1. (networking) HFC - Hybrid Fiber Coax. 2. (hardware) HFC - hydrofluorocarbon. ) distribution architecture. HFC technology delivers both cable television signal and data over a combined fiber-optic and coaxial infrastructure. This service represents an overwhelming improvement over current dial-up modem speeds and makes rich graphics, audio and video feasible through very rapid system response times. With annual revenues exceeding $7 billion, Sun Microsystems, Inc. provides products and services that enable customers to build and maintain open network computing See ONC. Open Network Computing - (ONC) Sun's network protocols. environments. Widely recognized as a proponent of open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced , the company is involved in the design, manufacture and sale of products, technologies and services for commercial and technical computing. Sun's SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill (TM) workstations, multiprocessing servers, SPARC microprocessors, Solaris TM operating software and ISO-certified service organization each rank No. 1 in the UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). industry. Java(TM), Sun's platform-independent programming language, provides a comprehensive solution to the challenge of programming for complex networks, including the Internet. Sun Microsystems was founded in 1982, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California For the census-designated place, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. For other places called "Mountain View", see . Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. . -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: Sun, the Sun logo, Sun Microsystems, Ultra Enterprise and Solaris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and in other countries. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. UNIX(R) is a registered trademark in the United States Press announcements and other information about Sun Microsystems are available on the Internet via the World Wide Web using a tool such as Netscape or NCSA (1) (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana-Champaign, IL, www.ncsa.uiuc.edu) A high-performance computing facility located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Mosaic. Type http://www.sun.com at the URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. prompt. CONTACT: Sun Microsystems Computer Company Lisa Ganier, 415/786-8088 lisa.ganier@corp.sun.com or Burson-Marsteller Mark Richardson, 415/463-4007 Mark_Richardson@BM.Com |
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