Apertus Technologies enhances its TCP IP-to-SNA gateway with increased capacity, throughput and management.EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 7, 1995--Apertus Technologies Inc. (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 : APTS APTS Alexandra Palace Television Society (UK) APTS Advanced Public Transportation System APTS Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary (Texas) APTS Association of America's Public Television Stations ) today announced that its DataStar enterprise gateway has been enhanced with increased capacity, improved throughput and administration capabilities. The release of the product was driven by the increasingly complex network integration needs of Fortune 1000 companies. 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 is currently being completed at BellSouth, Hughes Electronics, Boeing, AT&T American Transtech, and American President Lines American President Lines Ltd. (now simply referred to as APL) is the world's sixth largest container transportation and shipping company, providing services to more than 140 countries through a network combining intermodal freight transport operations with IT and e-commerce. . The DataStar provides users on TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. local area networks (LANs) with efficient access to data and applications on IBM mainframes and AS/400s. It can operate as a fully off-loaded TN Server for the most cost-effective interactive access to IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) hosts, a TCP/IP interconnect controller for high-speed client/server communications and a network print gateway for printing 3270 data on LAN-attached printers. AT&T American Transtech, a leading call center-based customer care firm for Fortune 1000 companies, turned to Apertus to link its remote call centers to its corporate mainframe. "The DataStar enables our on-line agents on the wide area network to access our clients' scripts which reside on an IBM mainframe," said John Veino, director of Networking at AT&T American Transtech. "After testing the new DataStar, we are especially excited about the increased session throughput that allows us to maximize the number of on-line agents accessing the mainframe at any given time." "As companies deploy more client/server applications, their need for greater session capacity and throughput for accessing information stored on IBM mainframes actually increases rather than decreases," said Richard Villars, director of Network Architectures Research at International Data Corp. "With the new DataStar, Apertus can help users address the TCP/IP-to-SNA integration requirements of today's distributed network environments." Availability & Pricing The new release of the DataStar will be generally available Nov. 20, 1995. The price for the new Pentium module is $9,925 and a complete DataStar system begins at $36,000. Apertus Technologies Inc. develops and markets enterprise-strength solutions for integrating traditional, large-scale systems with networked computing environments. It offers solutions for network integration, data integration and systems management. Headquartered in Eden Prairie, Apertus has sales and service offices throughout North America and Europe. -0- Apertus is a registered trademark of Apertus Technologies Inc. Other names, products and services mentioned are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective vendors or organizations. CONTACT: Apertus Technologies Inc., New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Media Relations: Elesia Birnbaum, 212/560-7821 Investor Relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. : Andy Serell, 212/560-7837 |
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