Asante announces industry's first lifetime product warranty.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)--Jan. 17, 1995--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 ) Tuesday announced the first-ever lifetime warranty for the company's entire line of hub and adapter card See adapter and expansion board. products. The lifetime warranty is free of charge to all Asante customers and is retroactive to Jan. 1, 1995. "Asante knows that delivering worry-free plug-and-play products that don't break down is a key requirement for success in the departmental market," said Jeff Lin, president and co-founder. "Our lifetime warranty is further proof of Asante's long-term commitment to customer satisfaction and provides the additional assurance that if an Asante product should fail, we will replace it free of charge." To qualify, customers must show proof of purchase for warranty repair and prepay the freight back to the repair facility. Asante will guarantee turnaround of five business days, upon receipt of the defective material, for U.S. customers, and 10 days for international repairs. Advance swap-out of the defective material will be offered during the first year of the warranty only. The lifetime warranty is intended for the original purchaser and is not transferable. Products covered under the warranty include: --AsanteHub 2072 -- chassis-based intelligent Ethernet hub A device that all lines on an Ethernet segment are plugged into. 10Base-T and 100Base-T Ethernets are star networks and require a hub for operation. The earlier 10Base5 and 10Base2 Ethernets are bus networks, but are often wired into a star configuration using a central hub for improved --AsanteHub 1012 -- intelligent Ethernet hub/bridge --NetStacker -- multi-segment Ethernet hub --Plug-and-Play 6, 8, 12, and 24 port -- unmanaged Ethernet hubs --NetExtender -- portable 10BaseT Ethernet hubs --MacCon -- family of Ethernet and 10BaseT adapter cards --EtherPaC -- family of Ethernet adapters for 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) and compatible personal computers --Mini EN/SC -- SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. Ethernet adapters for Macintosh PowerBooks and slotless Macs --AsantePrint -- Ethernet-to-LocalTalk converter Asante's Power Supplies and NetRAS remote access product will continue to carry a one-year warranty. About Asante Founded in 1988, Asante Technologies Inc. manufactures, markets and distributes a full line of high-performance networking products for Ethernet networks, including adapter cards for both PCs and Macs, intelligent and non-intelligent 10BaseT hubs, remote access communication servers, and network management software. Asante products are distributed in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. by Ingram Micro Inc. and Merisel Inc. and in the United States by Tech Data Corp., Gates/Arrow, MicroAge, Intelligent Electronics, GBC/Vitek, and Globelle. Asante products are also available worldwide through a network of value-added international distributors. Asante is located at 821 Fox Lane, San Jose, Calif., 95131. Phone: 800/662-9686 or 408/435-8388. CONTACT: Asante Technologies Inc., San Jose Shannon Malliet, 408/435-8401 ext. 291 The Hoffman Agency Ray Schuster, 408/286-2611 |
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