First Commercial ATM network on-line in Europe; oldest English language newspaper installs newest networking technology from Cabletron.ROCHESTER, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 16, 1995--Cabletron Systems Monday announced it has installed the first end-user working installation for ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode See ATM. (communications) Asynchronous Transfer Mode - (ATM, or "fast packet") A method for the dynamic allocation of bandwidth using a fixed-size packet (called a cell). See also ATM Forum, Wideband ATM. ATM acronyms. Indiana acronyms. ) technology in Europe at Caledonian Publishing, publishers of the oldest English language English language, member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages). Spoken by about 470 million people throughout the world, English is the official language of about 45 nations. daily newspaper. The ATM deployment at the more than 200-year-old publishing company based in Glasgow, Scotland, will allow for rapid publishing of large amounts of data -- from 20Mbytes to 50Mbytes per newspaper page -- in the deadline-oriented newspaper environment. This move is part of a multi-million dollar three-year upgrade. Caledonian Publishing produces two daily newspapers, The Herald, Scotland's best selling quality broadsheet and its top selling evening paper -- Evening Times, with a total readership of 750,000. They also produce five magazines. "Caledonian's existing network is based around intelligent MMAC MMAC Multimedia Mobile Access Communication MMAC Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce MMAC Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center MMAC Mutated in Multiple Advanced Cancers MMAC Multi Media Access Center (Cabletron) hubs that are able to support Ethernet, 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. , Token Ring, 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. and ATM. The network backbone was provided by a 100Mbps FDDI ring, that provided resilience but a shared capacity," said Fred Salmond, Cabletron's Scottish sales manager. "Upgrading to another backbone technology is absolutely no problem as the MMAC supports flexibility in both media and technology, thereby protecting their existing investment." Following a successful 18 month in-depth testing and adjustment of ATM in-house, Caledonian Publishing intends to continue their ATM strategy and deploy this cutting-edge networking technology throughout their production process. Initially, Caledonian Publishing's Cabletron ATM backbone will run parallel with its FDDI network. The desktop publishing at Caledonian Publishing is performed on Apple PowerMacs linked to UNIX-based SUN SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill servers. Cabletron MMAC hubs provide ATM uplinks directly from Switched Ethernet in a central FORE Systems backbone switch, providing instant performance gains. Headquartered in Rochester, Cabletron Systems is the worldwide modular hub market leader in the networking industry(1). Cabletron is ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001 certified and develops, manufactures and markets Ethernet, FDDI, Token Ring and ATM networking products based on its Integrated Network Architecture (INA Ina (ē`nä), city (1990 pop. 60,062), Nagano prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on the Tenryu River. It is an agricultural and industrial center with a famous agricultural school. ). The INA strategy provides standards-based products and services necessary to build and manage a global, distributed platform of interconnected local and wide area networks. Cabletron's common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. under the symbol CS. The company reported record revenue of $598.1 million and earnings of $119.2 million for the fiscal year 1994. Cabletron now services more than 63,000 customer sites around the world. (1) Dataquest Inc.; February 1994. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: Cabletron Systems and Integrated Network Architecture (INA) are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cabletron Systems. All other products or services mentioned in this document are identified by the trademarks or service marks of their respective companies or organizations. CONTACT: Cabletron Systems, Rochester Bob Olson, 603/337-3376 |
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