Garrett Communications Adds 100Mb Personal Hub to Company's 100+10 Mb "What You Need Is What You Get" Product Line; Magnum 600ES Personal Hub Plus Provides Easy Transition to 100 Mb at the Desktop in Package that Supports Both 10 and 100 Mb Connectivity.FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 21, 1997--The new Magnum 600ES Personal Hub Plus from Garrett Communications offers five shared Fast Ethernet An earlier name for 100Mbps Ethernet. See 100Base-T. (networking) Fast Ethernet - A version of Ethernet developed in the 1990s(?) which can carry 100 Mbps compared with standard Ethernet's 10 Mbps. It requires upgraded network cards and hubs. ports plus a switched 100 or 10 Mb port for interconnection in·ter·con·nect v. in·ter·con·nect·ed, in·ter·con·nect·ing, in·ter·con·nects v.intr. To be connected with each other: The two buildings interconnect. v.tr. into another network domain, in a small package sized to fit any office. The Magnum 600ES allows power users to take advantage of 100 Mb performance in their office domain while connected to existing 10 Mb Ethernet network services. Garrett's Personal Hub Plus offers a cost-effective migration path for power desktop users as organizations roll out their upgrades to 100 Mb in backbones and departmental networks. "Many vendors that emphasize Fast Ethernet backbones are recommending switched 10 Mb Ethernet at the departmental level. This provides some additional performance for users, but in the end, they are still stuck with 10 Mb mance, and they need solutions today that can . When the speed selectable port is switched full switching efficiency without manual intervention, and supports store and forward packet processing. The switched port is manually selected for 10 or 100 Mbnches (3.3x15.5x23.0 cm), makes it convenient and 10 Mb for easy transition to Fast Etherne The Magnum Fast Ethernet family also includes the 8000E family 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. , the 800E Workgroup Hub, and the 40E Personal Hub. Used in a wide range of configurations, their very low BT delays permit up to three levels of hurable metal enclosure and is designed and manufactured in the US Magnum 600ES units are available now at a list price of $1,095. Garrett Communications sells its Mallers, systems integrators, and international distributors. Private label versions are available. Garrett Communications is privately held. The company designs, manufactures and markets the Magnum family of Ethernet and Fast Ethernet local area network (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. ) connectivity products. Targeted at the medium to small organization with growing network needs, the Magnum product line is a comprehensive set of physical layer networking connectivity products, including switches, bridges, hubs, repeaters, concentns, media types, sizes and styles. For more information, call Garrett headquarters in Fremont, Calif. at (510) 438-9071 or visit the company's Website at http://www.are available. Contact Breakthru Communications. Magnum and Personal Hub are trademarks of Garrett Communications. Ethernet is a trademark of Xerox Corporation (company) XEROX Corporation - http://xerox.com/. See also XEROX PARC, XEROX Network Services. . nc. Frank Madren, 510/438-9071 or Breakthru Communications Barbara Kline, 408/777-9364 bkline@breakthrucom.com KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS COMED ComEd Commonwealth Edison COMED Combined Map and Electronic Display TELECOMMUNICATIONS PRODUCT TRADESHOW URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.garrettcom.com REPEATS: New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of 212-752-9600 or 800-221-2462; Boston 617-236-4266 or 800-225-2030; SF 415-986-4422 or 800-227-0845; LA 310-820-9473 |
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