HP Cuts Price of HP ProCurve Switch 1600M by 25 Percent; HP Slashes Prices on High-Performance Switches and Hubs.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)--Jan. 4, 1999--Hewlett-Packard Company, a leading global manufacturer of networking solutions, today announced that it has cut the price of its managed HP ProCurve Switch 1600M by 25 percent. Additionally, prices for HP's AdvanceStack 100Base-T 12-port managed and manageable hubs have been slashed by up to 43 percent. All price reductions are effective immediately. "These price cuts are part of our strategy to drive the high cost out of networking," said Jan Bell, worldwide marketing manager for HP's ProCurve Networking. "We believe that offering robust networking solutions, products and support at affordable prices provides the ultimate in value for our customers." HP ProCurve Switch 1600M The HP ProCurve Switch 1600M is a 10/100/1000 megabit per second A megabit per second (abbreviated as Mbit/s, Mbps, or mbps) is a unit of data transfer rate equal to 1,000,000 bits per second. Because there are 8 bits in a byte, a transfer speed of 8 megabits per second (8 Mbps) is equivalent to 1,000,000 bytes Ethernet switch A device that connects clients and servers to each other in an Ethernet network. See switched Ethernet. with high-availability features that help to ensure uptime and performance. It delivers scaleable Ethernet switching solutions and HP's special switch-meshing technology. The HP ProCurve Switch 1600M implements Cisco Systems' Fast EtherChannel. This enables multiple parallel connections between the HP ProCurve Switch 1600M and other Fast EtherChannel-capable devices, such as another switch, server or router. This product also supports IEEE 802.1Q IEEE 802.1Q (also known as VLAN Tagging) was a project in the IEEE 802 standards process to develop a mechanism to allow multiple bridged networks to transparently share the same physical network link without leakage of information between networks (i.e. trunking). IEEE 802. VLAN See virtual LAN. VLAN - Virtual Local Area Network tagging and IP Multicast A one-to-many transmission of data over an IP network. It is used for a myriad of purposes including updating routers, announcing and discovering services and streaming media. IP multicast saves network bandwidth, because packets are transmitted as one stream over the backbone and only (IGMP (Internet Group Multicast Protocol) The protocol that governs the management of multicast groups in a TCP/IP network. To sign up for a multicast group, a Host Membership Report is sent by a user's machine to its nearest routers, which forward that data to ). HP AdvanceStack 12TX and 12TXM TXM Thixomolding TXM Transaction Management TXM Technology Transition Model HP's AdvanceStack 100Base-T 12-port stackable hubs are designed for shared high-performance workgroups and include expansion slots for HP's switch-port modules. This solution provides complete management for the entire stack with only a single managed hub. U.S. Price, Availability and Warranty The HP ProCurve Switch 1600M and the HP AdvanceStack 12TX and 12TXM are available through HP's worldwide network of authorized computer dealers, resellers and distributors. 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. -0-
Product New Percent
Price Price Difference
HP ProCurve Switch 1600M $3,199 $2,399 25
HP AdvanceStack 100BT Hub-12TXM 1,749 999 43
HP AdvanceStack 100BT Hub-12TX 849 659 23
-0- About HP's ProCurve Networking HP is a leading supplier of networking products including stackable hubs and switches, network-management applications, remote connectivity and high-speed devices. About HP Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global provider of computing, Internet and intranet solutions, services, communications products and measurement solutions, all of which are recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 124,600 employees and had revenue of $47.1 billion in its 1998 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com. |
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