Adaptec Now Offers Industry's Broadest Fast Ethernet Product Family of Network Adapters; "Cogent by Adaptec" makes worldwide debut.MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 23, 1996--Adaptec, Inc. today announced that it is shipping its Cogent family of 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 worldwide. The "Cogent by Adaptec" product family is comprised of the first-ever Fast Ethernet offerings from Adaptec, which recently acquired Cogent Data Technologies of Friday Harbor, Washington Friday Harbor is a town in San Juan County, Washington, United States. The population was 1,989 at the 2000 census. Located on San Juan Island, it is the major commercial center of the San Juan Islands archipelago. (USA). Cogent Ethernet products have earned many editorial accolades (including 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. Magazines (USA) 1996 Product of the Year for the eMaster+) for their performance and interoperability. The Fast Ethernet adapters complement Adaptec's family of ATM network adapters. "Our Cogent products are well-suited for a server-centric networking universe and enhance Adaptec's position as a premier provider of products that move information quickly, efficiently, and reliably," noted Gary Law, vice president of marketing for Adaptec's network products group. "With high throughput, 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, broad interoperability, and extensive OS support, they are ideal for complex, heavily-loaded corporate networks running resource-intensive applications. Customers worldwide have been demanding a seamless solution to migrate networks to Fast Ethernet; Adaptec now delivers that solution." "We wholeheartedly whole·heart·ed adj. Marked by unconditional commitment, unstinting devotion, or unreserved enthusiasm: wholehearted approval. whole welcome Adaptec into Fast Ethernet markets," said Mike Pacholke, technical director of H.S.I., a European VAR. "Adaptec has always been a strong technology partner for us whether we wanted 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 or a powerful network adapter. Perhaps more importantly, Adaptec is tightly focused on optimizing server performance and creating solutions that make servers work better. H.S.I. is excited about selling Fast Ethernet from Adaptec." The products Adaptec's new Fast Ethernet adapters comprise the industry's widest range of Fast Ethernet products, including 10/100 adapters for ISA (1) (Instruction Set Architecture) See instruction set. (2) (Interactive Services Association) See Internet Alliance. (3) (Internet Security and Acceleration) See .NET. , 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. , and PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). as well as a four port (Quartet) adapter for PCI servers. In all, Adaptec's Fast Ethernet family includes 24 adapters with an array of price/performance options. The new product line is also the only one in the industry to offer 100BASE-TX, 100BASE-FX (fiber), and an extensive set of 100BASE-T4 products. For customers not ready to migrate to Fast Ethernet, Adaptec also offers high performance single and quad port 10Mb/s Ethernet adapters for PCI systems. The adapters are optimized for performance with bus mastering A bus design that allows the peripheral controllers (plug-in boards) to access the computer's memory independently of the CPU. It allows data transfers to take place between the peripheral device and memory while the CPU is performing other tasks. bus mastering - bus master to minimize CPU utilization, and 10 Mb/s full duplex (Computers) arranged so that the information may be transmitted in both directions simultaneously; - of communications channels between computers; contrasted with
1. ^ International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. "throughput rate". . Most adapters include an AutoSense feature to enable automatic detection of a networks maximum line speed for the highest speed data transfers. In NetWare environments with Adaptec Fast Ethernet in both the server and clients, Adaptec's Predictive Pipelining technology employs an overlapped processing scheme which significantly minimizes adapter overhead, and results in greatly reduced processing time. Finally, the new adapters from Adaptec support a wide range of popular network operating systems, including NetWare 3.x, 4.x, SFT SFT Statens Forurensningstilsyn (Norwegian Pollution Control Authority) SFT System Fault Tolerance SFT Shaft SFT Secure File Transfer SFT School Food Trust (UK) SFT Societe Francaise des Traducteurs 3, and Lite; Personal NetWare See NetWare peer-to-peer network. ; LAN Manager (1) A network operating system from Microsoft that runs as a server application under OS/2. It supports DOS, Windows and OS/2 clients. LAN Manager was superseded by Windows NT Server, and many parts of LAN Manager are used in Windows NT and 2000. See LAN Server. ; VINES; OS/2 Warp The client version of the OS/2 operating system. It includes peer-to-peer networking, fax and communications programs, multimedia viewing and editing applications and IBM Works (word processing, spreadsheet, database and other office tools). Introduced in late 1994 as Version 3. ; IBM LAN Server IBM LAN Server started as a close cousin of Microsoft LAN Manager and first shipped in early 1988. It was originally designed to run on top of Operating System/2 Extended Edition. The network client was called IBM LAN Requester and was included with OS/2 EE 1.1 by default. ; Artisoft LANtastic; DEC PATHWORKS for DOS; FTP FTP in full file transfer protocol Internet protocol that allows a computer to send files to or receive files from another computer. Like many Internet resources, FTP works by means of a client-server architecture; the user runs client software to connect to PC/TCP; LAN Workplace for DOS; Windows NT; Windows 95; Windows for Workgroups A version of Windows 3.1 introduced in 1992 that added peer-to-peer networking. See Windows. (operating system) Windows for Workgroups - (WFW, WFWG) A version of Windows 3.1 which works with a network. Although stand-alone 3. 3.11; Sun Solaris x86 and 2.5; and NEXTSTEP 3.3. US suggested retail prices for Adaptec Fast Ethernet adapters start at $167. Availability The Cogent by Adaptec Fast Ethernet product family is available now from Adaptec in Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Current pricing and additional technical details about specific products are available on Adaptec's networking home page 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, 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 2500 people worldwide in design, manufacturing, sales, service and distribution. Adaptec's home page is http://www.adaptec.com.
Cogent by Adaptec
Fast Ethernet and Ethernet Adapters
New Adaptec Previous Cogent Description US-only Model No. Model No. MSRP
ANA-6510/TX EM100TX-ISA ISA Fast Ethernet 100BaseTXFull
DuplexAdapter $197
ANA-6511/T4 EM110T4-ISA ISA 100BaseT4 10/100 Auto-
Sensing Adapter for Cat 3,4,5 $229
ANA-6511/T4C EM110T4-ISA-C ISA 100BaseT4 10/100 Auto-
Sensing Combo Adapter
for Cat 3,4,5 $258
ANA-6511/TX EM110TX-ISA ISA Fast Ethernet 10/100 Auto-
Sensing Full Duplex Adapter $229
ANA-6511/TXC EM110TX-ISA-C ISA Fast Ethernet 10/100 Auto-
Sensing Full Duplex Adapter,
UTP+BNC $258
ANA-6710/TX EM100TX-EIS EISA Fast Ethernet 100BaseTX
Full Duplex Adapter $251
ANA-6711/T4 EM110T4-EIS EISA 100BaseT4 10/100 Auto-
Sensing Adapter for Cat 3,4,5 $276
ANA-6711/T4C EM110T4-EIS-C EISA 100BaseT4 10/100 Auto-
Sensing Combo Adapter
for Cat 3,4,5 $318
ANA-6711/TX EM110TX-EIS EISA Fast Ethernet 10/100 Auto-
Sensing Full Duplex Adapter $276
ANA-6711/TXC EM110TX-EIS-C EISA Fast Ethernet 10/100 Auto-
Sensing Full Duplex Adapter,
UTP+BNC $318
ANA-6901 EM960TP 32-bit PCI Full Duplex UTP
Ethernet Adapter $90
ANA-6901/C EM960C 32-bit PCI Full Duplex Combo
Ethernet Adapter $104
ANA-6904 EM964TP 32-bit PCI 4-Port UTP Full Duplex
Ethernet Adapter $498
ANA-6904/BNC EM964BNC 32-bit PCI 4-Port BNC Ethernet
Adapter $598
ANA-6910/FXSC EM100FXSC-PCI PCI Fast Ethernet 100BaseFX
Fiber Adapter w/SC connectors $449
ANA-6910/FXST EM100FXST-PCI PCI Fast Ethernet 100BaseFX
Fiber Adapter w/ST connectors $449
ANA-6910/TX EM100TX-PCI PCI Fast Ethernet 100Base-TX
Full Duplex Adapter $167
ANA-6911/T4 EM110T4-PCI PCI 100BaseT4 10/100 Auto-
Sensing Adapter for Cat 3,4,5 $221
ANA-6911/T4C EM110T4-PCI-C PCI 100BaseT4 10/100 Combo
Auto-Sensing Adapter
for Cat 3,4,5 $263
ANA-6911/TX EM110TX-PCI PCI Fast Ethernet 10/100 Auto-
Sensing Full Duplex Adapter, UTP $167
ANA-6911/TXC EM110TX-PCI-C PCI Fast Ethernet 10/100 Auto-
Sensing Full Duplex Adapter,
UTP+BNC $207
ANA-6940/TX EM400TX-PCI PCI Fast Ethernet 100Base-TX
4-Port Full Duplex Adapter $898
ANA-6944/T4 EM440T4-PCI PCI 100BaseT4 10/100 Auto-
Sensing 4-Port Adapter for
Cat 3,4,5 $998
ANA-6944/TX EM440TX-PCI PCI 100Base-TX 10/100 Auto-
Sensing 4-Port Full Duplex Adapter $998
-0- Note to Editors: A matrix of Adaptec's entire Ethernet and Fast Ethernet product family is attached to this release. CONTACT: Adaptec, Inc. (USA) Eric Brown, 408/957-6645 ebrown@corp.adaptec.com or Miller/Shandwick Technologies (Europe) Michelle McGlocklin, (44) 171-583-0525 |
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