Acacia Networks honored in Networld+Interop Best of Show Awards.LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 4, 1996--Acacia Networks, Inc. today was recognized as a finalist in the prestigious Networld+Interop Best of Show Awards. Out of 300 award entrants and more than 400 exhibitors, Acacia's NovaSwitch was cited as one of 19 products advancing the state of networking technology. A privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. based in Wilmington, Mass., Acacia acacia (əkā`shə), any plant of the large leguminous genus Acacia, often thorny shrubs and trees of the family Leguminosae (pulse family). Networks was founded in January 1995 and has 40 engineers and scientists engaged in the development of high-speed local- and wide- area networking products and technology. Acacia debuted NovaSwitch, its introductory product, at the show here this week. Acacia's NovaSwitch, a new generation of stackable and highly scalable 10/100 switches, is based on powerful ICs transplanted from multi-million unit consumer and commercial applications such as home video games See video game console. , multimedia PC gear, and wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. . As a result, NovaSwitches deliver an unmatched combination of high-performance, rich features and sophisticated network management (including per port RMON (Remote MONitoring) Enhancements to the management information base (MIB) structure used by the simple network management protocol (SNMP). In 1991, RMON added comprehensive network monitoring capabilities. ) for under $250/port. The new NovaSwitch provides 1.9 Gbps of internal bandwidth per switch and 3.4 Gbps of stacking throughput -- both non-blocking. A fully configured stack of seven units delivers up to 9 Gbps of system bandwidth. Wire speed performance, 5K MAC addresses per switch and less than 25 microseconds latency give Acacia's NovaSwitch the rare distinction of being a true stackable switch versus a "heap-able" switch or hub with limited stacking bandwidth. By fulfilling switching requirements from the workgroup through the department at desktop prices, Acacia's NovaSwitch family enables customers to deploy fewer levels of switching, resulting in simpler network designs and lower costs of acquisition and ownership. Available in June, the NovaSwitch family is priced from $1,895 to $5,995 and expansion modules from $995 to $2,995. -0- Acacia Networks, NovaSwitch, mini-NOC and Soft ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. are trademarks of Acacia Networks, Inc. Other products and company names are trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Alan Raderman Acacia Networks (702) 774-0923 through 4/5/96; (617) 937-1786 OR Mike Stringer Stringer & Co. (617) 246-0444 |
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