CNT/Brixton Systems Announces Strategic Alliance with Digital Equipment Corp. Digital to resell Brixton products worldwide.CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 4, 1995--CNT/Brixton Systems, Inc. (Brixton) today announced an agreement with Digital Equipment Corp. (Digital) of Maynard, Mass., under which Brixton will ultimately serve as Digital's SNA-to-Open Systems connectivity partner. This announcement represents a strategic direction for the two companies, with Brixton porting its entire line of networking software to Digital UNIX on the Alpha platform. As part of the agreement, Digital has been licensed as a worldwide reseller of Brixton products running on Digital UNIX. Brixton's software-based technology allows for total enterprise connectivity between the IBM mainframe and midrange and 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). and Windows platforms. With Digital UNIX, a key platform has been added to Brixton's open-enterprise strategy. The complete family of Brixton products being ported to Digital UNIX includes: o Brixton for Connecting 3270s (BrxPU5 SNA (Systems Network Architecture) IBM's mainframe network standards introduced in 1974. Originally a centralized architecture with a host computer controlling many terminals, enhancements, such as APPN and APPC (LU 6. Server, BrxPU5 Application Toolkit). Allows Legacy users to connect to popular UNIX applications o Brixton for Accessing Host Applications (BrxPU2.1 SNA Server, Brx3270, Brx5250, Brx3770/RJE, BrxLUO API, BrxLU6.2 API). Gives open systems users access to business-critical applications on the mainframe and midrange o Brixton for Internetworking (BrxFR Frame Relay, BrxPPP, BrxX25). Connects remote sites and integrates TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. users into wide-area networks. Brixton already supports most major operating systems currently in use in corporate MIS, including Sun SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill , HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , 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) AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , SCO UNIX, Sun Solaris x86, UnixWare, Windows and Windows NT. Responding to Customer Demand "Digital is pleased that we will be able to offer our UNIX customers CNT/Brixton's excellent UNIX-to-IBM connectivity software," said Don Harbert, vice president of Digital's UNIX Business Segment. "This demonstrates Digital's ongoing commitment to offering Open Systems solutions for today's heterogeneous market on the industry's fastest 64-bit Alpha Servers and Workstations." "Brixton's reputation rests on our software's flexibility and hardware-independence," said Herb Rush, general manager of CNT/Brixton Systems, Inc. "This agreement extends our interoperability even more and gives Digital customers one-stop shopping for SNA-to-Open Systems networking solutions." Pricing and Availability Most Brixton products for Digital UNIX are available immediately with the balance of products available within 30 days. Brixton products are distributed by both CNT/Brixton Systems and Digital Equipment Corporation with prices starting at $2,500 (SNA Server/16 sessions) and $175 (3270 PC/Windows client). CNT/Brixton Systems Inc. is a subsidiary of Computer Network Technology Corp. (CNT), a leader in the enterprise networking industry. Brixton has more than 20 products that enable client/server integration by providing connectivity between UNIX, Windows and Windows NT systems and IBM mainframe and midrange computers. CNT's common stock is traded on 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 National Market under the symbol CMNT CMNT Comment . -0- Digital, the Digital logo, and Digital UNIX (formerly known as DEC OSF/1) are trademarks of Digital Equipment corporation. CONTACT: CNT/Brixton Systems, Inc. Ilyssa Greene, 617-661-6262 X173 or Digital Equipment Corp. Darren Popham, 505-493-0937 |
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