ACC Founder Joins Virtual Resources Communications as CEO.TORRANCE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 22, 1998--Virtual Resources Communications Inc. (VRC) announced that Roland F. Bryan has joined the company as president and chief executive officer. Bryan previously founded Advanced Computer Communications, now a Newbridge Networks affiliate, located in Santa Barbara, Calif. The company, Virtual Resources Communications, has perfected a unique approach to servicing large numbers of communication lines by small host processors, called SmartMemory Architecture or SMA (1) See SMA connector. (2) (Shared Memory Architecture) See shared video memory. (3) (Software Maintenance Association) A membership organization that began in 1985 and ended in 1996. . Invented by Whai Lim, the chairman of VRC, SMA is well protected by patents, and this new technology can be applied in any application where I/O bus congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. must be eliminated. VRC products are therefore more cost effective in terms of throughput than almost any other system. In making the announcement, Lim, who is also chief technologist for VRC, stated that the company needed someone from the data communications industry to help introduce its products to the marketplace and to promote the use of SMA in as broad a selection of products as possible. At present, VRC produces Frame Relay switches and Remote Access Server systems. The company numbers MICOM MICOM Missile Command (US Army) MICOM Miami Isopycnic Coordinate Ocean Model MICOM Military Intelligence Communications (Northern Telecom) and IBM among its major customers. In 1969, Bryan implemented the IBM channel attachment to the ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork) The research network funded by the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). The software was developed by Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN), and Honeywell 516 minicomputers were the first hardware used as and his research team designed the first Network Control Program (NCP) for IBM mainframes, later TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. . This was the first production system on the initial 4-node packet network. For his work, Bryan was honored in 1994 as one of 19 researchers designated as the Founders of the Internet. Bryan launched Associated Computer Consultants in 1974, and the company implemented all of the first packet network host front-ends for IBM, Univac, CDC See Control Data, century date change and Back Orifice. CDC - Control Data Corporation and Burroughs mainframes. Through 1991, ACC See adaptive cruise control. developed Network Access Systems, programmable communications interface products, bridges and multiprotocol routers. Members of ACC's technical staff produced the first X.25, HDLC (High-level Data Link Control) A data link protocol from ISO for point-to-point communications over serial links. Derived from IBM's SDLC protocol, HDLC has been the basis for numerous protocols including X.25, ISDN, T1, SS7, GSM, CDPD, PPP and others. and ADDCP protocol handlers for many computer systems, and participated in the evolution of TCP/IP. About Virtual Resources Communications VRC manufactures components and systems that embody its patented SmartMemory Architecture, a unique means for the rapid transfer of data between network access ports, through switches, and within remote access or proxy servers. This new technique, which off-loads data traffic from the host system bus, can resolve many types of high-performance telecommunication requirements including ATM service, Frame Relay switching and front-ending intelligent servers.
CONTACT: Virtual Resources Communications Inc., Torrance
Tong Hui, 310/782-8084
fax: 310/782-8337
info@vrcomm.com
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