HP Announces New Plug-and-Play Hubs With Breakthrough Pricing as Low as $10 Per Port; HP Dual-Speed Autosensing Hubs Easily Interconnect 10Base-T and 100Base-T Devices.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. 31, 1998-- Hewlett-Packard See HP. Hewlett-Packard - (HP) Hewlett-Packard designs, manufactures and services electronic products and systems for measurement, computation and communications. The company's products and services are used in industry, business, engineering, science, medicine and Company, a leader in complete computing computing - computer solutions, today introduced a family of hubs for easy plug-and-play For the specific branded ISA add-on technology marketed by Intel and Microsoft, see . Plug and play is a computer feature that allows the addition of a new device, normally a peripheral, without requiring reconfiguration or manual installation of device drivers. networking. The new hubs include breakthrough pricing at $10 per 10Base-T port and $30 per 100Base-T port. "HP is working to make workgroup networking as easy as possible, no matter what speed a company's Ethernet Ethernet Telecommunications networking protocol introduced by Xerox Corp. in 1979. It was developed as an inexpensive way of sending information quickly between office machines connected together in a single room or building, but it rapidly became a standard computer network is running," said Jan Bell, worldwide marketing manager for HP's Workgroup Networks Division. "These new hubs meet HP's goal of offering easy plug-and-play solutions with the quality and reliability customers have come to expect from HP." Today's announcement includes the HP ProCurve 10/100 Hub-12 and Hub-24, two new 10/100 dual-speed autosensing hubs that offer easy migration from 10Base-T to 100Base-T workgroups. The announcement also includes new, compact HP ProCurve 100Base-T Hub-8 and 10Base-T Hub-8, which are perfect for use in homes or small workgroups. HP PROCURVE 10/100 HUB-12 AND HUB-24 The HP ProCurve 10/100 Hub-12 and Hub-24 are ideal for interconnecting a mix of 10Mbps and 100Mbps workstations, servers and peripherals through a single networking device. The hubs offer 12 or 24 dual-speed autosensing ports, along with a cascade port for expanding networks through interconnected hubs. Both hubs include an internal bridge for connecting communications at 10Mbps and 100Mbps speeds. In addition, they offer plug-and-play, requiring no configuration, no modules and no add-ons. HP PROCURVE 100BASE-T AND 10BASE-T HUB-8 Both the HP ProCurve 100Base-T Hub-8 and HP ProCurve 10Base-T Hub-8 offer easy networking for home or business use. A compact footprint The amount of geographic space covered by an object. A computer footprint is the desk or floor surface it occupies. A satellite's footprint is the earth area covered by its downlink. See form factor. 1. and four-way mounting kit allows for easy installation anywhere in an office. These new hubs meet Class B Emissions Standards for use in home environments. U.S. PRICING AND AVAILABILITY The newest members of the HP ProCurve networking family are expected to be available worldwide on Sept. 1 through HP's network of authorized au·thor·ize tr.v. au·thor·ized, au·thor·iz·ing, au·thor·iz·es 1. To grant authority or power to. 2. To give permission for; sanction: computer dealers, resellers and distributors. -0- PRODUCT NAME PART NUMBER U.S. PRICE PRICE/PORT HP ProCurve J3294A $649 $54 10/100 Hub-12 HP ProCurve J3295A 999 42 10/100 Hub-24 HP ProCurve J4091A 229 30 100Base-T Hub-8 HP ProCurve J4090A 79 10 10Base-T Hub-8 -0- INDUSTRY-LEADING SUPPORT All HP hubs and switches include free end-user support as well as a lifetime limited warranty Limited warranty A warranty with certain conditions and limitations on the parts covered, type of damage covered, and/or time period for which the agreement is good. for as long as that customer owns the product. In many parts of the world, HP also provides next-business-day advance product replacement at no additional cost. These features benefit customers by minimizing cost and eliminating impact to the network. HP CUSTOMER CARE HP Customer Care provides comprehensive, proven support expertise and leverages new technologies to give customers end-to-end end-to-end a pattern of anastomosis in which severed ends are matched and united, in contrast with other patterns such as end-to-side or side-to-side. Usually applied to anastomosis of the intestine. support. Services include setup See BIOS setup and install program. and installation, trouble-shooting tools, warranty upgrades, repair and exchange services, phone and Web support, software updates and self-maintenance services. Information about HP Customer Care can be found at http://www.hp.com/go/support. ABOUT HP HP's Workgroup Networks Division is a leading supplier of networking products, including Ethernet hubs A device that all lines on an Ethernet segment are plugged into. 10Base-T and 100Base-T Ethernets are star networks and require a hub for operation. The earlier 10Base5 and 10Base2 Ethernets are bus networks, but are often wired into a star configuration using a central hub for improved and switches, network-management applications and remote-connectivity modules that allow customers to build proactive networks. 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 127,200 employees and had revenue of $42.9 billion in its 1997 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com/go/network_city.
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