Dayna cuts PC Card modem prices by 28 percent; CommuniCard 28.8 Modem now lowest-priced modem in Mac market.SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 5, 1996--Dayna Communications Inc. Friday announced that it has cut the price of its CommuniCard 28.8 Modem by 28 percent. The new price reduction makes Dayna's cellular-ready modem the lowest-priced PC Card modem available in the Macintosh market today. The price reduction for the CommuniCard Modem is part of a price cut across the board on Dayna's line of PC Card communications and networking products. Prices have also been reduced on the CommuniCardPLUS Ethernet/Modem for 10BASE-T users, and on CommuniCard Ethernet Adapters for both 10BASE-T and thin Ethernet See 10Base2. . The new price reductions are in response to the growing demand for lower-cost PC Card products for Macintosh PowerBook models with a built-in PC Card slot A socket for inserting a printed circuit board or a PC Card (CardBus card). See PC Card. . Since the introduction of the PowerBook 5300 and 190 series 18 months ago, acceptance of third-party PC Card products for these models has become widespread -- Dayna's price reductions now offer Mac users more freedom to expand their portable computing options within the PC Card market. The following chart reflects old and new estimated street pricing for each of the CommuniCard products which have been affected by the price reduction: -0- Dayna Product Description Old Street Price New Street Price CommuniCard 28.8 Modem (cellular-ready) $395 $287 CommuniCardPLUS Ethernet/Modem (10BASE-T) $512 $435 CommuniCard Ethernet Adapter-T $158 $142 CommuniCard Ethernet Adapter-T/2 $190 $166 -0- The CommuniCard 28.8 Modem supports the Hayes AT command set, and CCITT See ITU. CCITT - Commite' Consultatif International de Telegraphique et Telephonique. (International consultative committee on telecommunications and Telegraphy). CCITT changed its name to ITU-T on 1 March 1993. and Bell standards. Support for V.42bis and NMP NMP New Millennium Program (NASA) NMP National Military Park (National Park Service) NMP N-Methylpyrrolidone NMP Network Management Protocol NMP Not My Problem 5 data compression data compression Process of reducing the amount of data needed for storage or transmission of a given piece of information (text, graphics, video, sound, etc.), typically by use of encoding techniques. provides industry standard error detection and data compression. The modem includes a fully integrated FAX communication software package. The CommuniCardPLUS Ethernet/Modem card combines the functionality of both an Ethernet adapter and a 28.8 modem in a Type II PC Card. Users can connect any PowerBook with a built-in PC Card slot to an Ethernet network and a phone line using a single card. Both the Ethernet and modem functions can operate simultaneously; a FAX communication package is included with the card. The CommuniCard Ethernet Adapter lets users connect to a 10BASE-T network or, through a two-in-one version, to either 10BASE-T or thin Ethernet 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. ; connection to a thin Ethernet network requires an external media connector and is included with the 10BASE-T/thin Ethernet card See Ethernet adapter. . All prices for the CommuniCard product line are effective immediately; all CommuniCard products include a five year warranty and free technical support. For More Information Editors should contact Suzanne Kimball, voice/FAX: 801/567-1895, AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. : Suzkimball, Internet: skimball@dayna.com. For all other inquires, contact Dayna Communications Inc., 801/269-7200, FAX: 801/269-7363, Internet: www.dayna.com. Founded in 1984, Dayna Communications Inc., based in Salt Lake City, is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. specializing in networking connectivity and communications products for wired and wireless local area networks. Dayna's products are distributed nationally by Ingram Micro Ingram Micro, Inc. NYSE: IM a Fortune 100 company founded in 1979 and based in Santa Ana, California. It is the world’s largest technology distributor and a leading technology sales, marketing and logistics company. , Merisel, Tech Data, MicroAge, and regional resellers, and are available worldwide through a network of authorized international distributors. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: Dayna Communications Inc. and the Dayna logo are registered trademarks of Dayna Communications Inc. CommuniCard and CommuniCardPLUS are trademarks of Dayna Communications Inc. All other product names are trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Dayna Communications Inc., Salt Lake City Suzanne Kimball, 801/567-1895 |
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