Equinox delivers 230Kbps for Windows NT Remote Access Service.FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 7, 1994--Equinox Systems Inc. (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 :EQNX) Monday announced plans to release support for Microsoft Windows NT on their SuperSerial line of high-speed I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output multiport boards and subsystems. SuperSerial products establish a new throughput standard for Remote Access, with support for bi-directional speeds beyond 230Kbps. The product will begin limited shipments in November with production shipments targeted for December. Pricing varies by the number of ports and configuration, and will mirror the current SuperSerial retail prices and discount schedules. Equinox SuperSerial I/O products, when used with 28.8 Kbps modems and Windows NT Remote Access Service, will deliver superior performance over standard dial-up phone lines. According to Bob Gintz, Equinox vice president of Development, SuperSerial I/O will be optimized to leverage all the benefits of Windows NT Remote Access Service. Just as with the 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 Novell platforms, SuperSerial will be the leading I/O performer in terms of throughput while minimizing CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. load. Beyond just supporting Windows NT, Equinox SuperSerial products leverage the features of Windows NT and Remote Access Service. Driver installation will take place in the Windows NT Control Panel and on-line support will be in place for the NT Event Viewer, Microsofts tool to view events and errors on an NT system. Just as Windows NT thoroughly addresses the software needs of remote access users, SuperSerial I/O answers the hardware performance demands. Its the ideal marriage of technologies, added Gintz. At the heart of Equinox SuperSerial products is the SuperSerial processor, which outperforms other RISC-based communications processors while replacing over 100 costly and potentially failure prone components. Other SuperSerial features include simplified installation and support through dynamic configuration and on-line diagnostics, full modem control on all ports, surge protection on every pin of every port, and an industry-leading 5-year warranty. With multiport boards and modular expandable I/O systems, Equinox delivers EISA (Extended ISA) Pronounced "ee-suh." A PC bus standard that extends the 16-bit ISA bus (AT bus) to 32 bits and provides bus mastering. ISA cards can plug into an EISA slot. , ISA (1) (Instruction Set Architecture) See instruction set. (2) (Interactive Services Association) See Internet Alliance. (3) (Internet Security and Acceleration) See .NET. , and Micro Channel SuperSerial solutions spanning from 2 to 128 ports per host slot. With the addition of Windows NT, Equinox supports all the major operating systems including: Novell NetWare Connect (AIO), UnixWare, SCO UNIX & XENIX, SVR4 (STREAMS), Solaris, OS/2, and Citrix. Equinox device drivers are compliant with international standards (POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface for UNIX) An IEEE 1003.1 standard that defines the language interface between application programs and the Unix operating system. , SVID (System V Interface Definition) An AT&T specification for the Unix System V operating system. SVID Release 3 specifies the interface for Unix System V Release 4. See Unix history and Unix. SVID - System V Interface Definition , etc.) and are fully certified on the native operating system of choice. Equinox, headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, designs and markets I/O (input/output) communications products for remote 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 and multiuser computer systems. The products are sold through a worldwide network of distributors, VARs and OEMs. CONTACT: Equinox Systems Inc., Fort Lauderdale
David Forsch, 800/275-3500, ext. 216
Internet: davidf at equinox.com
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