Alantec Announces Compatibility With FORE ATM and LAN Switches.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)--Sept. 11, 1995--Alantec Corporation (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 :ALTC ALTC Automatic Laser Target Classification ALTC Aparicio-Levy Technical Center (Tampa, Florida) ), the design pioneer of multilayer, multiprotocol LAN switching
LAN switching is a form of packet switching used in local area networks. Switching technologies are crucial to network design, or to that minority of LANs that are used outside the home. products, and FORE Systems See Marconi. , Inc. (NASDAQ:FORE), the worldwide leader in local area networking products based on asynchronous transfer mode See ATM. (communications) Asynchronous Transfer Mode - (ATM, or "fast packet") A method for the dynamic allocation of bandwidth using a fixed-size packet (called a cell). See also ATM Forum, Wideband ATM. ATM acronyms. Indiana acronyms. (ATM) technology, today announced the successful completion of interoperability testing and demonstrated compatibility of FORE ATM switches with Alantec PowerHub switching hubs. Alantec, a member of the ForeThought fore·thought n. 1. Deliberation, consideration, or planning beforehand. 2. Preparation or thought for the future. See Synonyms at prudence. Partners Program since November, 1994, ported FORE's ForeThought LAN Emulation See LANE. signaling software to its PowerHub family and confirmed network interoperability with FORE's ASX-200 ATM switches. The interoperability tests demonstrate that the Alantec PowerHub 3000 and PowerHub 5000 properly implement FORE's LAN Emulation software. FORE LAN Emulation is a protocol for providing a connectionless MAC-layer service using switched virtual circuits (SVCs) on a FORE ATM network. "We believe FORE Systems' ForeThought software delivers the most comprehensive set of ATM features available on the market today," said Paul Schaller, vide president of marketing at Alantec. "Unlike ASIC-designed switching products, PowerHub's software-centric architecture provided Alantec with the ability to easily port the ForeThought ATM software to the PowerHub family, giving our combined customers a robust, full-featured ATM solution and the ability to cost-effectively upgrade their network infrastructure." "We are very pleased to announce the successful completion of testing of the PowerHub 3000 and PowerHub 5000 for interoperability with FORE's ATM switches, and add these products to the growing list of FORE Certified products," said Bob Schiff, marketing director, ATM Access products for FORE Systems. "The addition of ATM to these well-regarded networking platforms will enable Alantec customers to migrate gracefully to ATM services and networks. Ease of migration and increased multivendor interoperability are important goals of the ForeThought Partners Program. We look forward to our continuing partnership and reaching the same level of interoperability with future Alantec products." The compatibility testing Compatibility testing, part of software non-functional tests, is testing conducted on the application to evaluate the application's compatibility with the computing environment. was completed at both FORE's interoperability test labs at their headquarters in Warrendale, Pennsylvania and Alantec's San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. offices. Product is scheduled to begin beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the in September. About FORE Systems FORE Systems is the worldwide leader in the design, development, manufacture and sale of high-performance local area networking products based on ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) technology. Fore offers the most comprehensive ATM 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. product line available today including ForeRunner switches, adapter cards, LAN access products, and video adapters, ForeThought Internetworking Software and ForeView network management software. FORE has delivered ATM solutions to over 600 customers including Fortune 500 companies, telecommunications service providers, government agencies, research institutions and universities. FORE Systems' headquarters are located at 174 Thorn Hill Road, Warrendale, Pennsylvania 15086. FORE Systems can be reached by telephone at (412) 772-6600, by fax at (412) 772-6500, or by internet at info@fore.com or http://www.fore.com. About Alantec Alantec Corporation designs, manufactures and markets intelligent switching hubs which increase network performance for local area networks. Founded in 1987, Alantec is the design pioneer of the industry's first multiprotocol, multilayer LAN switching product-The PowerHub- which melds the strengths of both full-featured bridging and multiprotocol routing within a single LAN internetworking device. The PowerHub family is still the industry's only product line of multiprotocol LAN switches. During 1994, Alantec was the second largest worldwide supplier of switched Ethernet for the LAN backbone market segment based on dollar shipments, according to Dataquest, Inc. Headquartered in San Jose, California, Alantec can be reached by telephone at (800) ALANTEC, by fax at (408) 955-9500, or by internet at powerhub@alantec.com or http://www.alantec.com/. -0- Note to Editors and Analysts: For a detailed copy of the original statement of interoperability, please contact Alantec at (800) ALANTEC or FORE Systems at (412) 933-6244. Alantec and PowerHub are trademarks of Alantec Corporation. FORE Systems is a registered trademark and ForeRunner, ForeThought, and ForeView are trademarks of FORE Systems, Inc. All other products and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: The Horn Group Barbara Reichert or Annette Shimada, 415/579-6400 barbara@horngroup.com annette@horngroup.com |
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