Asante Announces New NetDoubler Server Platforms; Teams With Xinet to Boost Performance in Sun, SGI Network Server Solutions with NetDoubler.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)--Dec. 3, 1996--Asante 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 : ASNT ASNT American Society of Non-destructive Testing ASNT American Society for Neural Transplantation ASNT Astrological Association of North Texas (Dallas - Fort Worth Metroplex) ASNT Application Sharing Nt ), a leading provider of Ethernet and 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. networking products, today announced Xinet support for NetDoubler in K-AShare client/server software and FullPress prepress software. NetDoubler is the network acceleration utility from Asante. Based on a licensing agreement with Xinet, the Berkeley, Calif.-based provider of UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). network server solutions for publishing and prepress, Xinet is offering free NetDoubler support in K-AShare and FullPress. Existing K-AShare and FullPress customers can obtain the NetDoubler updated from the Xinet web site at www.xinet.com. For additional information contact Xinet at 510/845-0555. K-AShare and FullPress support Sun and Silicon Graphics workstations. The combination of NetDoubler and Xinet software offers users file transfer rates up to four times the current speed. In real-world performance tests, file transfer rates of up to 5.2 megabytes per second (unit) megabytes per second - (MBps, MB/s) Millions of bytes per second. A unit of data rate. 1 MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes per second (not 1,048,576). have been achieved using NetDoubler with K-AShare, saving a 50MB Photoshop/Scitex CT file to a Sun Ultra 200 server over 100Mbps Fast Ethernet. "These acceleration rates using NetDoubler with the Xinet products on Sun and SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. servers are among the fastest we've seen," said Paul Smith, vice president of marketing at Asante . "We are very pleased to provide such excellent performance for our customers in graphics, publishing and prepress." "NetDoubler is the best file sharing Copying files from one computer to another. See peer-to-peer network, file sharing protocol and file and printer sharing. performance enhancement available today," said Bob Kridle, president of Xinet. "We are offering NetDoubler support so our customers can experience immediate substantial improvements in performance on their existing networks." About Asante Founded in 1988, Asante Technologies, Inc. provides a complete line of high-performance Ethernet and Fast Ethernet products, including adapter cards, intelligent and non-intelligent hubs, bridges, switches, and network management software. Asante products are available through a worldwide network of VARs, system integrators, computer retail stores and distributors. For additional information, contact Asante at 800/662-9686 or browse the company's Web site at http://www.asante.com CONTACT: Asante Technologies, Inc. Jennifer Doettling, 408/435-8401 x282 jdoettli@asante.com or Walt & Company Communications Paige Burgess/Melissa Deagman, 408/496-0900 pburgess@walt.com/mdeagman@walt.com |
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