Astrocom Announces General Availability of the PowerLink-Iplus DSL Aggregator with Session Load Balancing and Automatic Line/ISP Fail-over.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 2, 2001 Astrocom Corporation (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). :ATCC ATCC American Type Culture Collection, see there ) a leading provider of DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary technology, today announced the general availability of their next generation DSL Aggregator, the PowerLink-Iplus(TM) with Session Load Balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them and Automatic Line/ISP Fail-over. One of the first production PowerLink-Iplus(TM) units was shipped on July 13, 2001 to J.L.Patterson Engineering & Associates, Inc., a Rail-Civil engineering firm in Orange, CA. After using PowerLink-Iplus(TM) for 20 days on their network, Marcos Canas, Network Manager, had the following comments. "The machine is working great, all my users are now getting phenomenal performance when web browsing See browse. . I'm seeing significantly faster file transfers on 30-80Mb files. Redundancy is really, really important to us. Our DSL lines here are pretty unstable and go down frequently. With PowerLink(TM) we're always up and we no longer see the delays in our emails that we used to experience. Our business is very time sensitive, so 100% uptime on our email and Internet access See how to access the Internet. is critical." Over 30 additional units have shipped to similar companies over the past 2 weeks. PowerLink-Iplus(TM) combines multiple independent DSL lines to form a single logical channel for high-speed transmissions up to 6Mbps completely transparent to the network. In addition to aggregating multiple DSL lines, the PowerLink-Iplus(TM) actively monitors the performance of each connection. Should one of the links (or ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. ) fail for any reason, traffic is automatically forwarded to the active link(s). When the failed link is restored, the connection is immediately recognized and placed back in the aggregation. From this perspective, the PowerLink-Iplus(TM) not only provides increased bandwidth, but also offers mission critical redundancy in the event of a link (or ISP) failure. Astrocom Corporation Astrocom Corporation develops, manufactures, markets and services electronic devices, which address key areas of wide area data, voice and video communications including line aggregation solutions. Since 1968, Astrocom products have been utilized in hundreds of thousands of installations around the world. These products are used by private enterprises, health care providers, government and educational entities, banks and Internet service providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. that require high-speed digital communication links to the Internet and between facilities. |
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