D-Link Systems Selects Kendin Communications for Desktop Ethernet Switch Product Line.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 1, 2000 D-Link Systems, Inc., a networking and connectivity vendor, has chosen Kendin Communications' recently announced, five-port switch and PHY See physical layer and physical. for its own desktop Ethernet switch product line. "Kendin offers the most cost-effective, highest-integration Ethernet switch solution in the market today. It demonstrated the design capability to meet our price and performance targets," said Sam Liang, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. and Executive Vice President of D-Link. D-Link has been named one of the 100 most influential companies by PC Magazine. The KS8995 is integral to D-Link's new DSS-5+ retail desktop switch products, Liang said. Kendin was chosen after a couple of months of evaluation by D-Link's test laboratory, he said. These tests included EMI (ElectroMagnetic Interference) An electrical disturbance in a system due to natural phenomena, low-frequency waves from electromechanical devices or high-frequency waves (RFI) from chips and other electronic devices. Allowable limits are governed by the FCC. , environmental, compatibility and the rigorous, accelerated nine-corner regimen to check for integrity, temperature, voltage reliability, Liang explained. The versatile KS8995 can be configured with five PHY transceiver ports or with four PHY ports and a Layer Two switch. Consuming low power, the device also features on-chip SRAM See static RAM. SRAM - static random-access memory for built-in frame buffering, 1.4Gbps high-performance memory bandwidth and unmanaged operation for 10BaseT, 100BaseTX and 100BaseFX networks in SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. (small office, home office) applications. D-Link, headquartered in Irvine, Calif., offers Ethernet solutions for Small Office/Home Office See SOHO. , work groups and enterprise environments and offers a full line of dual-speed hubs, switches, network interface cards (NICs), print server transceivers and accessories. The company ships more hubs and dual-speed hubs than any other company and is the second largest supplier of Ethernet NICs, according to market research firms. About Kendin Communications, Inc. Kendin Communications Inc. designs, develops and markets PHYs and switches for Ethernet, Fast Ethernet and soon gigabit Ethernet applications. The company employs its patented, algorithmic signal processing (aSp) architecture which offers numerous advantages over current DSP-based designs including lower power consumption, reduced die size and greater yield, all while using digital manufacturing technologies. The company was founded in 1996 by Dr. Tian Tian or T'ien (Chinese; “Heaven”) In indigenous Chinese religion, the supreme power reigning over humans and lesser gods. The term refers to a deity, to impersonal nature, or to both. Liou and is privately held. |
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