Accton Reduces Ethernet Adapter Prices to $29; Company's Most Popular ISA and PCI Adapters Now Offered at One-third the Price of Competing Cards.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.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 1997--Accton Technology Corporation today announced an aggressive new pricing strategy for its Ethernet adapters, reducing the price of its 10 Mbps network adapters to list prices from $39 to as low as $29 (U.S.). Prices have been reduced on Accton's most popular ISA (1) (Instruction Set Architecture) See instruction set. (2) (Interactive Services Association) See Internet Alliance. (3) (Internet Security and Acceleration) See .NET. and PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). network adapters, undercutting the cost of competing network adapters by as much as 67 percent. Accton's best-selling 10BASE-T adapter, the EN1661 ISA adapter, has been reduced to $29 for single unit pricing unit pricing n. The pricing of goods on the basis of cost per unit of measure. . Accton's EN1208TC PCI and EN1666 ISA combination cards, with connectors for both 10BASE-T and 10BASE2 connections, have been reduced to $34. Accton's three-way combination cards, the EN1208 PCI and EN1660 ISA adapters with 10BASE-T, 10BASE2, and 10BASE5 connectors, have both been reduced to a list price of $39. "By designing and manufacturing our own 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. technology for our network adapters, we gain very tight control over manufacturing costs," noted A.J. Huang, Executive Vice President of Accton Technology Corporation. "Superior manufacturing techniques combined with advanced engineering allow us to offer superior products for less. That's why we could start offering our 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. adapters for as low as $60 retail, as we announced earlier this month, and why we can reduce the prices on our 10 Mbps adapters now. We undercut the competition by controlling manufacturing costs, and we are passing those savings along to our customers." Accton's EN166x family of ISA Ethernet adapters all comes with Accton's exclusive MultiPacket Accelerator (MPX MPX - Multiplexor Channel 2) technology to deliver 30-percent faster performance than competing adapters. These ISA cards are also plug-and-play with Windows 95 for easy installation. For other networking applications, Accton includes its 1Step setup program (1) Same as install program. (2) See BIOS setup. that automatically configures the adapter and installs the appropriate network drivers. The ISA adapters are also full duplex to deliver greater throughput, and are fully NE2000 compatible. Accton's EN1208 family of PCI adapters uses the PCI local bus to deliver a full 32-bit data path. They are fully standards-compliant with both the PCI Local Bus and IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. specifications, and support full duplex for an effective throughput of 20 Mbps. These adapters are fully NE2000 compatible, and the media type is auto-sensing, including 1-BASE-T detection and polarity correction, so no special configuration software is required. All of Accton's network adapters come with a limited lifetime warranty. About Accton Technology Accton Technology Corporation has its international headquarters in Taiwan Science-based Industrial Park, and manufactures 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, is located at 1962 Zanker Road, San Jose, CA 95112; telephone (408) 452-8900; FAX: (408) 452-8988. CONTACT: Accton Technology Corporation Christy Calderon, 408/452-8900, ext. 621 www.accton.com or Woolf Media Relations, Inc. Tom Woolf, 415/508-1554 www.woolfmedia.com |
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