EDITOR SUMMARY: Aug. 26 Announcements; New Products from HP Reduce the Cost, Complexity of Networking.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 26, 1996-- Hewlett-Packard Company, the leader in networked systems for workgroups, today announced six new products specifically designed to make the transition to high-performance networking easy and cost-effective by reducing the cost and complexity of building, growing and maintaining high-performance workgroups. In summary, HP introduced the following: o HP AdvanceStack Switching Hubs A device that acts as a central switch or PBX, connecting one line to another. In a local area network (LAN), a switching hub gives any two stations on the network the full bandwidth of the line. , at prices up to 30 percent lower than competing switching hubs, are targeted for workgroups and remote offices with diverse and growing applications needs. The AdvanceStack Switching Hubs provide the greatest level of flexibility in the industry, unsurpassed performance in enabling new applications and file-sharing and the simplest migration path to switching within a 10Mbps hub framework at low 10Mbps prices. o HP AdvanceStack Assistant, replacing HP's Interconnect Manager for Windows or OpenView Windows, offers unmatched network management for medium- to large-size workgroups and remote offices. Advanced management capabilities of HP AdvanceStack Assistant offer new levels of device management, including RMON (Remote MONitoring) Enhancements to the management information base (MIB) structure used by the simple network management protocol (SNMP). In 1991, RMON added comprehensive network monitoring capabilities. , Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. support, drag-and-drop port switching and traffic monitoring and optimization. It now comes with all AdvanceStack switches and network-management hardware as a complete network-management solution. o An FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface) Often pronounced "fiddy," it was a LAN and MAN access method that had its heyday in the mid-1990s. FDDI was an ANSI standard token passing network that transmitted 100 Mbps over optical fiber up to 10 kilometers. Module and 10Base-FL Module for HP's AdvanceStack Switch 2000 are designed to provide cost-effective, comprehensive connectivity for new and exiting networks while protecting customers' investments. The Switch 2000's support for most standard technologies -- 10Base-T, 10Base-FL, 100VG and FDDI -- makes it the industry's most modular and flexible segment switch for workgroups. HP's Workgroup Networks Division delivers a complete line of network workgroup solutions. Workgroup Networks Division is a leading supplier of stackable hubs A type of Ethernet hub that can be expanded by daisy chaining additional hubs together via dedicated ports for that purpose. They are designed to stack vertically and be treated as a single domain by the network management software. , print servers and high-speed networking products. Its products include AdvanceStack 10Base-T and 100VG hubs; AdvanceStack 10Base-T switching hubs; AdvanceStack 10/100VG and 10/100Base-TX switches; AdvanceStack routers and remote-access products; OpenView network-management applications; JetDirect print servers; 10Base-T, 10/100VG and 10/100Base-TX LAN Adapters Same as network adapter. ; and the NetBeamIR infrared 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. access point. Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global manufacturer of computing, communications and measurement products and services recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 110,800 employees and had revenue of $31.5 billion in its 1995 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com. -0- Windows is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. CONTACT: Hewlett-Packard Peter Francis Peter William Francis (1944–1999) was a British volcanologist specialising in the study of active volcanoes on both the Earth and other planets in our solar system. He was also renowned for his ability as a communicator, reaching the general public in a series of popular and , 916/785-4116 e-mail: peter_francis@hp.com or Copithorne & Bellows for HP Maureen Grijalva, 415/975-2212 e-mail: maureeng@sf.cbpr.com |
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