CISCO DEBUTS LAN2LAN for ISDN IN THE UNITED STATES: SOFTWARE-BASED ISDN ROUTER.IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 1995--Cisco Systems today demonstrated its commitment to the burgeoning ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. (Integrated Services Digital Network Integrated services digital network (ISDN) A generic term referring to the integration of communications services transported over digital facilities such as wire pairs, coaxial cables, optical fibers, microwave radio, and satellites. ) market by adding a new product to its flagship software router family: LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. 2LAN for ISDN. "As the industry's premier internetworking supplier, Cisco increasingly finds that organizations are looking to offer ISDN dial-on-demand solutions to their remote offices," said Larry Stephenson, Vice President and General Manager of Cisco Systems' Access Business Unit. "Already shipping in Europe, LAN2LAN for ISDN provides a software-based internetworking solution for the fast growing U.S. ISDN market." Key Features and Benefits For customers that use ISDN as the primary method of communication, LAN2LAN for ISDN performs dial-on-demand routing, which saves transmission costs by invoking the ISDN connection only when necessary. In order to maintain acceptable network response times during periods of heavy traffic, LAN2LAN's ISDN software supports bandwidth-on-demand, which initiates multiple simultaneous calls to a single destination. A dial backup feature enables ISDN to serve as a backup technology at sites where the primary link is a leased line. Security features include calling line identification, which verifies acceptable incoming calls and prevents intrusion by unauthorized personnel. Calling line identification can be used in conjunction with the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) The most popular method for transporting IP packets over a serial link between the user and the ISP. Developed in 1994 by the IETF and superseding the SLIP protocol, PPP establishes the session between the user's computer and the ISP using ) Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP). LAN2LAN for ISDN multiprotocol software-based routers work with off-the-shelf LAN adapters, are available in Remote-Office and Enterprise configurations and route TCP/IPand Novell IPX (Internetwork Packet EXchange) The network layer protocol in the NetWare operating system. Similar to the IP layer in TCP/IP, it contains a network address and allows messages to be routed to a different network or subnet. . LAN2LAN also supports bridging over ISDN. Data compression is included to reduce response times and increase bandwidth. Product upgrades allow PPP, X.25 and Frame Relay to run concurrently with ISDN. LAN2LAN for ISDN supports PC platform configurations with multiple ISDN network interface cards, each of which can have one or four ISDN Basic Rate Interfaces, allowing simultaneous support of up to 24 ISDN B Channels. Pricing and Availability LAN2LAN Remote Office for ISDN costs $1,915. LAN2LAN Enterprise for ISDN starts at $2,610. ISDN upgrades for existing LAN2LAN customers are available. Further information is available by calling (800) 368-6533. Cisco Systems, Inc. is the leading global supplier of enterprise networks, including routers, LAN and ATM switches, dial-up access servers, Ethernet switches and network management software. These products link LANs, WANs and 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) networks. Cisco is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and in the U.S. is traded under the 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 symbol CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer . CONTACT: Cisco Systems, Irvine Elizabeth Narmore 714/798-1254 or fax: 714/752-8389 e-mail: enarmore@cisco.com |
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