Asante IntraCore 8000 Excels in The Tolly Group Tests; Offers Best Price/Gigabit of 10/100 Non-Blocking Switches.Business Editors/Technology Writers 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)--May 2, 2000 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 .OB) today announced that its IntraCore(TM) 8000 stackable switch passed zero-loss throughput tests conducted by The Tolly Group. The IntraCore 8000 was shown to offer the best price/gigabit of the 10/100 non-blocking switches tested in The Tolly Group's Switch Metric. The Tolly Group is the premier independent switch-test lab in the networking industry today. Switch Metric was designed to test the zero-loss throughput of vendor switches and provide a standardized cost per Gigabit of bandwidth across multiple network technologies. The IntraCore 8000 performed at 100% utilization at the following frame sizes tested: 64, 512 and 1,518 bytes. The IntraCore 8000 was rated by The Tolly Group at a price of $977 per Gigabit of bandwidth in the 32 port configuration -- the best price for non-blocking 10/100switches. "We're pleased with the results of The Tolly Group tests," says Wilson Wong, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and President of Asante. "The tests confirm that the IntraCore 8000 10/100/1000 switch offers non-blocking performance. A lot of our customers are looking to migrate voice and video systems over to Ethernet/IP. We designed the IntraCore 8000 to support voice and video by not only including the necessary software features, but also with the massive bandwidth required to truly support moving voice and video over Ethernet/IP and provide a high level of quality-of-service. Our tests have shown that moving video over the Ethernet/IP requires massive bandwidth to support a quality video image - particularly when multiple video streams are being distributed through the switch. The 16 Gbps non-blocking architecture of the IntraCore 8000 switch and the stackability of the IntraCore 8000 to 80 Gbps gives network managers the bandwidth to deliver high quality video over Ethernet/IP," noted Wong. "Our strategic recommendations are always based on firsthand experience, not abstract trend analysis or simple customer surveys," says Maik Lankau director of operations at The Tolly Group. "That explains why leading vendors and start-ups alike rely on The Tolly Group for independent certification. The rating of lowest price per Gigabit of throughput makes the IntraCore 8000 a great value in its class. We believe that technology decisions should be good business decisions," added Lankau. The IntraCore 8000 Gigabit Ethernet switch is stackable up to 184-switched 10/100 ports with a Gigabit Ethernet uplink. An IntraCore 8000 stack can also support up to 12 ports of switched Gigabit Ethernet and 96 switched 10/100 ports in the same stack. The IntraCore 8000 does support 802.1q, 802.1p, GVRP (GARP VLAN Registration Protocol) A standard for registering a client station into a VLAN. See 802.1p. , GMRP GMRP GARP Multicast Registration Protocol (Cisco) GMRP Guided Missile Round Pack GMRP Gauss-Markov Random Process , IGMP (Internet Group Multicast Protocol) The protocol that governs the management of multicast groups in a TCP/IP network. To sign up for a multicast group, a Host Membership Report is sent by a user's machine to its nearest routers, which forward that data to , 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. , RMON (Remote MONitoring) Enhancements to the management information base (MIB) structure used by the simple network management protocol (SNMP). In 1991, RMON added comprehensive network monitoring capabilities. , Web-based management, and uses industry standard GBIC (GigaBit Interface Converter) A hardware module used to attach network devices to fiber-based transmission systems such as Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet. The GBIC converts the serial electrical signals to serial optical signals and vice versa. Interfaces for Gigabit Ethernet. You can learn more about IntraCore networking products at http://www.intracorenet.com. About Asante Asante Technologies is the leading provider of network solutions for the education, enterprise and service provider marketplace. The Company's IntraCore Networks products support multi-service networks running telephony, video or data applications. For additional information, visit http://www.asante.com or call 800/303-9121. About The Tolly Group The Tolly Group, an independent testing and strategic consulting organization based in Manasquan, N.J., offers a full range of services designed to furnish both the vendor and end-user communities with authoritative and unbiased information. Additionally, The Tolly Group is recognized worldwide for its expertise in assessing leading-edge technologies. For more information on The Tolly Group's services, visit its Web site at http://www.tolly.com, E-mail inquiries to info@tolly.com, call 1-800-933-1699 or fax at 1-732-528-1888. Asante and IntraCore are trademarks of Asante Technologies. |
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