Hitachi Announces Value-Added Partnership with Consulintel; IPv6: The Emerging Technology as Demand for IP Addresses and Security Grows.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.; MADRID, Spain & MAIDENHEAD Maidenhead, city (1991 pop. 59,809), Windsor and Maidenhead, S central England, on the Thames River. It is a residential town with brewing and milling industries as well as a resort. The 13th-century stone bridge was rebuilt in the 1770s. , U.K.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 16, 2001--Hitachi Internetworking, a unit of Hitachi America, Ltd., Enterprise Systems Division reached a partnership agreement with Consulintel, S.L., a strategic member of IPv6 European community European Community: see European Union. European Community (EC) Organization formed in 1967 with the merger of the European Economic Community, European Coal and Steel Community, and European Atomic Energy Community. , to integrate, resell and support the full product line of Hitachi gigabit routers. The addition of the GR2000 to Consulintel's product and service offering strengthens the company's leadership position in the forefront of the European thrust to implement and deploy IPv6 ready networks. Hitachi has added new features to the GR2000 family to complement the next generation of access and core routers A router that resides within the middle or backbone of the network rather than at its periphery. The routers that make up the backbone of the Internet are core routers. See edge router and WAN router. . GR2000 is presently being deployed in real-world scenarios and is touted for its IPv6 performance and functionality. Hitachi is the leading developer and early adopter of the Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. version 6 (IPv6) which offers expanded IP addresses for the increasing number of Internet devices, such as personal computers, wireless devices, and new "smart" appliances, etc. A critical attribute of IPv6 is its enhanced mobility along with end-to-end security. IPv6 is designed to address other IPv4 limitations like Quality of Service (QoS) parameters for real-time audio, and auto-configuration for plug and play capabilities. Hitachi is the first to announce the implementation of hardware IPv6, which is supported over OC-48 POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET. (2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak. POS - point of sale at wire speed. Uri Rahamim, Hitachi Internetworking's vice president of worldwide sales and marketing, said, "Hitachi's strong offering of the fastest hardware IPv6 gigabit routing product is enhanced by Consulintel's focus on application development and IPv6 backbone and access networks implementations." Consulintel, founding member of IPv6 Forum, co-chair of the Education, Awareness, Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most and Promotion Working Group, with expertise in network deployment, is also developing IPv6 network management applications. As a Scientific Coordinator of the Euro6IX project, Consulintel along with the support from other consortium members plans to build IPv6 Internet Exchanges to enable development of a pan-European IPv6 backbone. About Hitachi Hitachi Internetworking, the global sales and marketing unit for Hitachi GR2000 gigabit router product, is part of Hitachi America, Ltd. In Europe, Hitachi Internetworking operates under Hitachi Europe, Ltd. For more information on the GR2000, please visit Hitachi's Web site at http://www.internetworking.hitachi.com. Hitachi America, Ltd., a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., markets and manufactures a broad range of electronics, computer systems and products, consumer electronics and semiconductors, and provides industrial equipment and services throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . For more information on Hitachi America, visit www.hitachi.com. Hitachi Europe Ltd., is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Hitachi, Ltd., Japan. Headquartered in Maidenhead, U.K., it has operations in 11 countries and employs over 650 people across Europe, the Middle East and Africa Europe, the Middle East and Africa, usually abbreviated to EMEA, is a regional designation used for government, marketing and business purposes. It is particularly common amongst North American based companies, who often divide their international operations into the . As a "Best Solutions Partner" Hitachi Europe tailors its services and solutions to meet the specific needs of its customers. Hitachi Europe comprises eight key business areas: power and industrial systems; information systems; high performance computing; electronic components; automotive; air-conditioning and refrigeration refrigeration, process for drawing heat from substances to lower their temperature, often for purposes of preservation. Refrigeration in its modern, portable form also depends on insulating materials that are thin yet effective. systems; procurement and sourcing; and corporate technology group (research & development). For more information about Hitachi Europe Ltd., please visit http://www.hitachi-eu.com. Hitachi, Ltd.(NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HIT), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is one of the world's leading global electronics companies, with fiscal 2000 (ended March 31, 2001) consolidated sales of 8,417 billion yen ($67.9 billion/a) The company manufactures and markets a wide range of products, including networking products, servers, semiconductors, consumer products and industrial equipment. For more information, please visit http://global.hitachi.com. /a At exchange rate of 124 Yen to the Dollar About Consulintel Consulintel, S.L. is a leading company in networking and telecommunications technologies, including integration of systems, consultancy, and maintenance/support services. Consulintel customers are small, middle and large corporations, with large installations in Spain and Portugal, and other European and Latin American countries List of American countries Nations:
The Consulintel Web Site (www.consulintel.es), provides updated information about new technologies, in Spanish, and is a frequently used resource by students, educators, and professionals. Several tutorial, white papers, networking guides and presentations are available there. |
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