Adaptec "Lightning" Strikes Fast Ethernet Market; Four-port ANA-6944A with new Adaptec Duralink software makes great holiday gift for your mission-critical servers.MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 1996--Adaptec unveiled its newest 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. adapter today. Codenamed "Lightning," the ANA-6944A adapter is a four-port (Quartet) adapter optimized for Pentium Pro The sixth generation of the Intel x86 family of CPU chips. The term may refer to the chip or to a PC that uses it. Introduced in 1995 as the successor to the Pentium, models from 150 MHz to 200 MHz were released. servers. As Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. and Pentium Pro servers bring the power, flexibility, and availability of mid-range servers to the PC server world, Lightning is targeted as the 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. to keep mission-critical applications up and running. "The rapid acceptance of Windows NT as the mission-critical platform of choice is creating demand for higher performance and resiliency from server hardware," said Clay Marr, vice president and general manager of the Network Products group at Adaptec, Inc. "Adaptec's new Lightning four-port Fast Ethernet adapter, coupled with Adaptec's Duralink software, addresses those needs. Customers are building powerful servers based on our RAID/SCSI products and our Fast Ethernet adapters. Adaptec is focused on maximizing server performance." "Windows NT with Pentium Pro is a growing server combination of choice," said J'Amy Napolitan, COO and senior analyst at Infonetics Research. "Products like Adaptec's Lightning adapter will make the transition to the new server platform simple, and will help unleash the power of the NT/P6 combination. This will help users overcome the most frequent network bottleneck -- server network performance." About Lightning Adaptec's Lightning adapter (ANA-6944A) for PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). systems has four autosensing full duplex (Computers) arranged so that the information may be transmitted in both directions simultaneously; - of communications channels between computers; contrasted with To optimize performance, Lightning has a total of 24KB buffer memory. The Lightning adapter achieves high data throughput and low CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. utilization, keeping it at the forefront of Fast Ethernet product performance. With Duralink, Lightning addresses the most common cause for network failure: a failed link to a hub or switch. The combination of Lightning and Duralink therefore provides higher server availability, keeping mission-critical applications up and running and avoiding costly downtime. Additionally, the adapter utilizes only one PCI bus PCI bus - Peripheral Component Interconnect slot and only one interrupt number, enabling IS departments to use other slots for other NICs or other add-in cards. The adapter complies with PCI 2.1 specifications and ships with driver support for Windows NT, NetWare, SCO UNIXWARE, and OS/2. For simplified server installations on NetWare, Lightning ships with both NetWare client and server drivers. About Duralink Duralink software is a new suite of software services designed by Adaptec for its network interface cards (NICs). The first Duralink software component provides failover and redundancy support for the company's PCI Fast Ethernet adapters. These features empower networks with high availability. Adaptec will be actively developing additional Duralink features during the next quarter. More information on Duralink is available from the accompanying Adaptec release "Adaptec Links Servers To The Future With Duralink." Pricing and Availability Lightning (ANA-6944A) is available immediately and has a U.S. manufacturer's suggested retail price of $998. Duralink is available to Adaptec NIC (1) (Network Interface Card) See network adapter. See also InterNIC. (2) (New Internet Computer) An earlier Linux-based computer from The New Internet Computer Company (NICC), Palo Alto, CA. customers at no charge from the Adaptec Web site and is packaged free with all PCI Fast Ethernet adapters. Lightning complements Adaptec's existing four-port Fast Ethernet adapters which are used in Pentium servers around the world. More information on all Adaptec network adapters and software is available on the Web at http://www.adaptec.com/networking. About Adaptec Adaptec provides bandwidth management technologies for organizations building the global information infrastructure. Its high-performance I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output , connectivity, and network products are incorporated into the systems and products of major computer and peripheral manufacturers. Founded in 1981 and headquartered in Milpitas, Calif., Adaptec (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ADPT ADPT Automated Data Processing/Telecommunications ADPT Adaptec Corporation (stock symbol) ADPT Adaptive Prediction ADPT Auger Depth Profiling Technique ADPT Automated Data Processing Telecommunications ADPT Adapter ) employs 3000 people worldwide in design, manufacturing, sales, service and distribution. Adaptec's home page is http://www.adaptec.com -0- For Product Information: Literature: 800/934-2766 Presales: 408/945-8600 CONTACT: Adaptec Eric Brown, 408/957-6645 ebrown@corp.adaptec.com |
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