CrossComm chosen as winner for Formula One Racing Team.MARLBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 1997--CrossComm Corporation and MiTech, one of CrossComm's United Kingdom system integrators, announced today it has won a contract valued at $150,000 to provide the Mild Seven Benetton Renault Formula One racing This article focuses on a specific subtopic of Formula One. A Formula One race takes place over an entire weekend, with two free practice sessions on Friday, a practice session and a qualifying session on Saturday, and the race on Sunday. team with the networking solution which could win the team the crucial seconds needed to win the 1997 Grand Prix Grand Prix n. pl. Grand Prix Any of several competitive international road races for sports cars of specific engine size over an exacting, usually risky course. championship. Bandwidth Adds Valuable Seconds The contract involves the installation of an ATM network between the Benetton's manufacturing floor, offices and the wind tunnel wind tunnel, apparatus for studying the interaction between a solid body and an airstream. A wind tunnel simulates the conditions of an aircraft in flight by causing a high-speed stream of air to flow past a model of the aircraft (or part of an aircraft) being tested. it uses for testing the aerodynamics aerodynamics, study of gases in motion. As the principal application of aerodynamics is the design of aircraft, air is the gas with which the science is most concerned. of the racing cars This article is about the Welsh pop band. For auto racing, see Racing cars. Racing Cars is a Welsh pop band, formed in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales in 1973. . The solution, which includes the provision of switched Ethernet An Ethernet network that is controlled by a switch instead of a shared hub. The switch cross connects all clients, servers and network devices, giving each sending-receiving pair the full rated transmission speed. in the three locations, will ease the overloading that the Benetton network is currently facing and significantly increase the amount of bandwidth available to users. CrossComm has been chosen by Benetton because of the company's ability to provide a solution that offers the kind of high bandwidth, high speed and reliability essential for generating and distributing the computer assisted design of a winning Formula One race car where, in this industry, every fraction of a second counts. "CrossComm has won the contract because we are clearly able to provide the fastest, most up to date capability, with our high speed ATM and LAN switching
LAN switching is a form of packet switching used in local area networks. Switching technologies are crucial to network design, or to that minority of LANs that are used outside the home. products", said Alan McGibbon, Vice President of International Sales and Marketing for CrossComm. "The resilience of the CrossComm solution also provides other essential ingredients in motor racing motor racing n (BRIT) → carreras fpl de coches; automovilismo motor racing motor n (Brit) → course f automobile , reliability, which together with the scaleability of the solution ensures that CrossComm will continue to back Benetton's position as a premier Formula One team." Shared to Switch Environment The installation will replace the single Ethernet environment, running at 10Mbps, which is currently shared by over 130 users. The building where the two office and manufacturing floors are located will be linked with switched Ethernet segment technology. The new technology will provide some dedicated ports for file servers as well as high speed links to workstations improving capacity and allowing the users to access the network at speeds of 10Mbps, 100Mbps and 155Mbps. The new network will also be able to handle video traffic from race meetings. A structured cabling environment with a fiber backbone will connect the three CrossComm XL20 chassis which are located in each location. Each chassis will house an AES ATM Edge Switch and XLX ATM Switch and will be managed by CrossComm's IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. network management software. MiTech will be providing the fiber and structured cabling to support CrossComm's solution. Eric Thickett, Managing Director for MiTech said, "The CrossComm network is clearly able to provide the flexibility and speed which Benetton requires to maintain its competitive edge and carry on with winning." About MiTech Mitech is a reseller for CrossComm's complete product range including remote access products, workgroup switches and ATM routers. They specialize in providing design, installation and support of quality, high performance network systems. The company, which was founded in 1992 by senior staff from Case, was awarded the 1996 TIA (1) (Telecommunications Industry Association, Arlington, VA, www.tiaonline.org) A membership organization founded in 1988 that sets telecommunications standards worldwide. It was originally an EIA working group that was spun off and merged with the U.S. (Telecommunications Industry Association See TIA. (body, standard) Telecommunications Industry Association - (TIA) An association that sets standards for communications cabling. Cables that TIA set standards for include: EIA/TIA-568A and EIA/TIA-568B category three, four and five cable. ) Award. MiTech customers include CrosField Electronics, Brann, Philips Medical and the Tyrrell Formula One Team. About CrossComm CrossComm Corporation (NASDAQ/XCOM), founded in 1987, designs, develops, manufactures and sells high performance networking products - ATM edge routers and switches, multiprotocol routers, and high speed Ethernet switches. The company focuses on providing companies whose mission critical networks are mainly Token Ring/SNA with a path to high speed connectivity using state-of-the-art solutions while preserving legacy LAN environments. Additional information is available on CrossComm's Web site at http://www.crosscomm.com. Worldwide Headquarters are located at 450 Donald Lynch Boulevard, Marlborough, MA 01752. International Headquarters are located at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. -0- All CrossComm product names herein are trademarked by CrossComm. All other product or company names are trademarked by their respective companies. CONTACT: CrossCom Corporation Nancy Baptiste 508/229-5341 nbaptiste@crosscomm.com |
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