Accton Lowers Pricing on 10/100 Fast Ethernet Adapters.HSINCHU, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 26, 1997--In an aggressive move to extend its market share in the rapidly growing Fast Ethernet An earlier name for 100Mbps Ethernet. See 100Base-T. (networking) Fast Ethernet - A version of Ethernet developed in the 1990s(?) which can carry 100 Mbps compared with standard Ethernet's 10 Mbps. It requires upgraded network cards and hubs. market, Accton Technology Corporation today announced a new pricing strategy for its popular Fast EtherPair-TX (EN1207-TX) 10/100 Mbps adapter cards. With the new retail pricing, Accton's Fast EtherPair-TX PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). adapters are now the most cost-effective in the market, undercutting pricing on comparable adapters from other manufacturers. The new retail price for Accton's EtherPair-TX is now set at $89 (U.S.) for a single 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX adapter. This is a full $5.00 less than the nearest competing adapter. SMC SMC Saint Mary's College SMC Santa Monica College SMC Solaris Management Console SMC Smooth Muscle Cell SMC Small Magellanic Cloud (also see LMC) SMC Safety Management Certificate (maritime shipping) has posted pricing for its 10/100 adapter at $95, Intel at $99, and 3Com at $116. Accton has also lowered pricing on its quantity discount packs, offering 5 adapters for $420 (EN1207-TX-005) and 20 adapters for $1,580 (EN1207-TX-002), also substantially undercutting the competition. "Accton superior engineering, design, and manufacturing capabilities gives us greater control over manufacturing costs, which means we can pass along greater savings to customers," noted Yimin Doo, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Accton Technology Corporation. "Our Fast EtherPair-TX cards, for example, are made using advanced VLSI VLSI: see integrated circuit. (1) (Very Large Scale Integration) Between 100,000 and one million transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, LSI and ULSI. (2) (VLSI Technology, Inc., Tempe, AZ, www.semiconductors. and surface-mount manufacturing in Accton's factory, so they have a very low component count and deliver high performance for a very low cost. "With this new worldwide pricing strategy, we hope to have a major impact on the Fast Ethernet networking market. All of today's Ethernet customers are planning to migrate to Fast Ethernet, and Accton's committed to helping these customers with products that deliver the best price performance on the market." The Fast EtherPair-TX network adapter A printed circuit board that plugs into the bus of both user machines (clients) and servers in a local area network (LAN). Also commonly called a "network interface card" (NIC) or "LAN card," the network adapter transmits data onto the network and receives data from the network. can accommodate either 10BASE-T connections for conventional Ethernet or 100BASE-Tx for Fast Ethernet. The adapter includes support for the IEEE 802.3u (networking, standard) IEEE 802.3u - The IEEE committee working on standards for Fast Ethernet. standard for auto-negotiation, so it can automatically adjust the packet rate to accommodate Ethernet or Fast Ethernet, or adjust to slower speeds on busy networks. The EtherPair-TX also supports full-duplex data transmissions, delivering an effective throughput from 20 Mbps to 200 Mbps to double the available bandwidth. On-board LEDs make it easy to monitor conditions such as busy, link, collision, and data rates. Accton's new pricing for the EtherPair-TX takes effect immediately. About Accton Technology Accton Technology Corporation has its international headquarters in Taiwan Science-based Industrial Park, and manufactures workgroup connectivity hardware and software. Accton Technology Corporation address No. 1, Creation Road III, Science-based Industrial Park, Hsinchu 3007, Taiwan, R.O.C. Tele: 3-577-0270, Fax: 3-577-0267. Accton USA, which handles mass-market product distribution throughout the Western Hemisphere Western Hemisphere Part of Earth comprising North and South America and the surrounding waters. Longitudes 20° W and 160° E are often considered its boundaries. , is located at 1962 Zanker Road, San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. 95112; telephone 408/452-8900; fax: 408/452-8988; www.accton.com . Accton also has sales offices in Tokyo, Sydney, London, Frankfurt, Beijing, Dubai, Bombay and Taipei. CONTACT: Woolf Media Relations, Inc. Tom Woolf, 415/508-1554 http://www.woolfmedia.com |
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