Accton Slashes Prices 45% On Fast Ethernet Switches, NICs, and Workgroup Products.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)--Feb. 26, 1996--Accton Technology Corporation announced today that pricing for all of the company's products has been reduced by as much as 45 percent. The new pricing strategy will have an impact on all of Accton's workgroup hardware, including the company's 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. cards, Ethernet hubs, bridges, and the new line of switches and 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. integration hardware. The new Manufacturers' Suggested Retail Pricing (MSRP MSRP Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price MSRP Message Session Relay Protocol MSRP Multi-Species Recovery Plan (US Fish & Wildlife Service) MSRP Member of the Society for Radiological Protection (UK) ) will take effect March 1. "There are two driving economic factors that allow us to reduce the price of our workgroup hardware," noted Scott Stanforth, Vice President of Marketing for Accton. "The channel's overwhelming acceptance of our new 10/100 Fast Ethernet products and the growing popularity of our 10/100BASE-T adapters, hub, and switches allow us to take advantage of the economies of scale that go with increased production. In addition, we continue to improve our manufacturing operations Manufacturing operations concern the operation of a facility, as opposed to maintenance, supply and distribution, health, and safety, emergency response, human resources, security, information technology and other infrastructural support organizations. to make production more cost-efficient. As a result, we are able to deliver the same high-quality workgroup integration solutions our customers have come to expect from Accton Technology, but at greatly reduced prices." The most dramatic savings come in Accton's new Ethernet switching hub line, making it easier than ever for Accton customers to increase data throughput for workgroups, and to integrate 10BASE-T and 100BASE-T environments. The SwitchHub-8s (EH2002) 8-port Ethernet switch has been reduced by $1,300 to $1,695, a savings of almost 45 percent. Accton's new SwitchHub-8se (EH2005-TX) Fast Ethernet switching hub with two 100BASE-T ports, five 10BASE-T ports, and one combination port, has been priced at $2,599, marked down from $3,395, a reduction of almost 25 percent. And Accton's two-port Fast SwitchHub-2se (EH3001-TX) 10/100 Mbps converter/extender switch has been reduced from $1,495 to $1,249. In the category of network interface cards, Accton has reduced the price of its adapters an average of 30 percent. For example, Accton's popular EtherCombo-32 (EN1200) 32-bit EISA (Extended ISA) Pronounced "ee-suh." A PC bus standard that extends the 16-bit ISA bus (AT bus) to 32 bits and provides bus mastering. ISA cards can plug into an EISA slot. bus-mastering adapter with three interface ports has been reduced from $349 to $249; the EtherCombo-16 (EN1660) 16-bit ISA (1) (Instruction Set Architecture) See instruction set. (2) (Interactive Services Association) See Internet Alliance. (3) (Internet Security and Acceleration) See .NET. three-port adapter has dropped from $109 to $85; and the EtherPair-16 (EN1661) and EtherCoax (EN1662) 16-bit plug-and-play Ethernet adapters have been reduced from $99 to $75. Accton's newest adapter, the EtherFast-TX (EN1207) 10/100 Ethernet/Fast Ethernet adapter, also has been reduced from $235 to $159. Accton has also reduced the pricing on its Ethernet hub products. Accton's EtherHub-8s EtherSmart 8-port hub (EN2040) with Accton's exclusive SmartWatch system has been reduced from $199 to $149 (a savings of $6 per port); and the EtherHub-16s EtherSmart 500 16-port hub (EN2041) has been marked down from $499 to $349 (a savings of more than $9 per port). The EtherHub-16mi (EH1502) SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) A widely used network monitoring and control protocol. Data are passed from SNMP agents, which are hardware and/or software processes reporting activity in each network device (hub, router, bridge, etc. add-on module for the intelligent 16-port 10BASE-T stackable hub system also has been reduced by $100 to $1,199. Comparable price reductions have also been extended to Accton's Ethernet Adapter Multi-Packs and the Accton SmartPack hub/adapter bundles. The Accton Multi-Pack bundles multiple network adapters together to provide greater economy when setting up a new LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. or workgroup. The SmartPack bundles Accton hubs and adapters to facilitate workgroup integration. Accton Technology Corporation has its North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. headquarters at 1962 Zanker Road, San Jose, CA 95112; telephone 408/452-8900; FAX: 408/452-8988. CONTACT: Woolf Media Relations, Inc. Tom Woolf, 415/508-1554 http://www.woolfmedia.com |
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