Allied Telesyn Announces Newest High Performance, Low-Cost Ethernet Workgroup Switch.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 1999-- New AT- at- pref. Variant of ad-. 8126XL Adds Greater Port Density to the Popular AT-8100 Family of Managed 10/100 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. Switches Allied Telesyn International (www.alliedtelesyn.com), a worldwide leader in simplifying networking for businesses of all sizes, Monday announced the newest member of the AT-8100 family of managed 10/100 autosensing switches, the AT-8126XL. Like the other AT-8100 switches, the new AT-8126XL provides advanced features such as Web-based management and per-port VLAN See virtual LAN. VLAN - Virtual Local Area Network support to ease installation, integration and management, while providing the increased port density - 24 10/100 TX ports and dual 100Mbps uplinks - that growing networks demand. The new AT-8126XL will ship by March 18th, the first day of CeBIT '99 in Hannover, Germany. It and other members of the AT-8100 family will be shown in Allied Telesyn's booth at CeBIT, No. D63 in hall 11, March 18-24, 1999. "When we introduced the AT-8100 family in August with the AT-8118 and the AT-8124, Allied Telesyn reaffirmed its commitment to provide customers with choices in simple, affordable dual-speed switches that combine performance with exceptional versatility and flexibility," said Sean Keohane, Allied Telesyn's Vice President of Marketing and Engineering. "The AT-8126XL now adds to those choices, demonstrating the company's responsiveness to what is happening now in real-world networks." The AT-8126XL switch delivers the port density and outstanding performance required for a wide range of bandwidth-intensive applications. With 24 dual-speed autosensing 10/100 fixed ports and two option slots for 100TX or FX uplinks, its versatility is apparent. Two Fast Ethernet uplinks make the AT-8126XL an ideal component in an evolving network by providing an affordable migration path to high speed networking with simultaneous access to 100Mbps server pipes and the backbone. The AT-8100 family is based on a leading-edge hardware platform that employs highly efficient, integrated 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 maximum performance. Running in full-duplex mode, each port in an AT-8100 family switch provides up to 200Mbps of bandwidth to the end device. Each 10/100TX port on an AT-8100 family switch supports half/full-duplex operation and is IEEE 802.3u (networking, standard) IEEE 802.3u - The IEEE committee working on standards for Fast Ethernet. autosensing/autonegotiation compliant. Their highly-competitive feature set includes support for up to 16K MAC addresses, software selectable fragment free Fragment free is a switch forwarding method. Fragment free will ensure that enough bytes are read from the source to detect a collision before forwarding. This is only useful if there is a chance of a collision on the source port - so a fully switched network may not benefit from cut-through or store-and-forward switching A switching device that stores a complete incoming data packet before it is sent out. Such switches are used when incoming and outgoing speeds differ. Contrast with cut-through switch. mode, automatic address learning and aging as well as static address support, 802.1d spanning tree and port-based VLANs. The AT-8126XL is also able to pass 802.1Q packets, making it an ideal partner to fully 802.1Q-compliant backbone devices. Support for 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. , Telnet, and RS-232 serial port access means that both in-band and out-of-band management Out-of-band management (sometimes called Lights-out management or LOM) is the use of a dedicated management channel for device maintenance. It allows a system administrator to monitor and manage servers and other network equipment by remote control regardless of options are readily available. Web-based management gives network administrators and users a new level of simple and universal access to important network management functions via a familiar web-browser interface. -0-
Competitive Pricing: AT-8100 Family of Managed Fast Ethernet Switches
Allied Bay 3COM Cisco Intel
Telesyn Baystack Super- Catalyst
Stack II
Product AT-8126XL 350-24T 3300 2924C XL 510T
US List Price $2030 $2995 $3595 $3995 $3695
10/100 TX Ports 24 24 24 22 24
Price Per Port $85 $125 $150 $136 $154
Product AT-8124XL 350-24T 3300 2924XL 510T
US List Price $1861 $2995 $3595 $2995 $3695
10/100 TX Ports 24 24 24 24 24
Price Per Port $78 $125 $150 $125 $154
Product AT-8118XL 350-T 3300 2916XL
US List Price $1675 $2995 $2395 $2995
10/100 TX Ports 16 16 12 16
Price Per Port $105 $187 $200 $187
Uplink Ports 2 0 1 2
-0- About Allied Telesyn International Allied Telesyn International simply connects the world with affordable, highly reliable networking technology and products. Allied Telesyn's product lines build networks that link people to information - in small networks, across large networks, and over the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the . Its Ethernet Ethernet Telecommunications networking protocol introduced by Xerox Corp. in 1979. It was developed as an inexpensive way of sending information quickly between office machines connected together in a single room or building, but it rapidly became a standard computer , Fast Ethernet, and Gigabit Ethernet An Ethernet standard that transmits at 1 Gbps. Used mostly to connect high-end workstations and servers as well as for network backbones, Gigabit Ethernet transmits full duplex from point to point using switches and half duplex in a shared environment (CSMA/CD) using a hub. connectivity products for fiber optic, traditional copper and mixed networks keep cost of ownership low by delivering quality and backing it with superior warranties and free technical support. Incorporated in 1987, Allied Telesyn is headquartered in Sunnyvale, and has locations throughout the U.S. and the world. Allied Telesyn's products are available through a large network of consultants, resellers, retailers and catalogs. The full range of products is also available to purchase online through Allied Telesyn's BuyLine catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. . Further information on Buyline, Allied Telesyn International and its products can be found at www.alliedtelesyn.com, or by calling its headquarters at 800/424-4284. |
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