Inside Out Networks Announces the Windows 95/98 USB Connectivity Solution That Enables Connection of Multiple USB and Serial Port Devices and Peripherals.AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 1, 1998-- The Hubport/7 is the Only Powered Hub On the Market With 7 USB Ports A USB socket on a computer or peripheral device into which a USB cable is plugged. See USB. and Independent Power Management for Each Port Inside Out Networks' USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. Connectivity Solution for Windows 95/98, the Hubport/7 and Edgeport/4, is now available. At the last USB Plugfest, Inside Out Networks successfully connected over 70 USB devices to a single USB jack! Whether you upgrade to Windows98 or not, Inside Out makes it easy to use and control USB peripherals. Currently there are about 40 million PC's that run on Windows 95 and have a USB port. Without waiting for Windows 98, these computer users can now begin to utilize USB devices by using Inside Out Network's Hubport/7 USB hub A device that increases the number of USB ports on a PC. However, since the hub plugs into one of the USB ports on the computer, the total number of additional ports is minus one. For example, a four-port hub adds three new ports. connected to your computer via the USB port. For only $199, the Hubport/7 allows you to run SEVEN different USB devices from a single USB jack. Of course, the Hubport/7 will work with Windows98 as well. Most users can install the fully Plug & Play Hubport/7 in less than five minutes without having to re-boot their computer or install any special drivers. In addition, up to five Hubport/7s can be daisy chained Connected in series, one after the other. Transmitted signals go to the first device, then to the second and so on.  A SCSI Daisy Chain Both internal and external SCSI devices are daisy chained together. , increasing the total number of connected and powered USB See PoweredUSB. devices. USB devices themselves can not be daisy chained one after another. If you want to use more than one device per USB computer port, you have to use a hub. The Hubport/7 is also a powered hub. Current USB specifications limit the amount of power that is transmitted via a single USB jack to 500mA. Passive hubs A central connecting device in a network that joins wires from several stations in a star configuration. It does not provide any processing or regeneration of signals. Contrast with active hub and intelligent hub. See hub. split that power up among various devices and may not be able to provide enough power to run two, three or more USB peripherals. However, due to the Hubport/7's power management, each of the seven channels can provide a full 500mA to each device. How can you use your existing serial devices with USB? Most businesses and corporations have floors full of serial port printers, modems, bar code scanners A device specialized for reading bar codes and converting them into either the ASCII or EBCDIC digital character code. Pen scanners, also known as wand scanners, were the first type of bar code scanner developed in the 1970s. , manufacturing devices, medical devices, etc. Inside Out's Edgeport/4 ($399) is a stackable four serial (RS-232C) port connectivity device that can easily connect four non-USB devices to a single USB port. The Edgeport/4 enables MIS and IT Managers to cost effectively integrate the advantages of USB into their system without having to abandon their base of existing serial port equipment. In addition, seven Edgeport/4s can be plugged into a single Hubport/7 connected to a single USB port on a Windows 95/Windows 98 computer. This allows a single computer to control and receive input from 28 different serial devices at one time! The Edgeport/4 is fully hot swappable See hot swap. . System managers can remove and install the serial devices without powering down the computer or the hub. You can plug, unplug and re-connect devices without worrying about rebooting the system. The combination of the Hubport/7 and the Edgeport/4 enables mixing and matching of USB and RS-232C serial ports for a variety of system requirements To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer system. These pre-requisites are known as (computer) system requirements and are often used as a guideline as opposed to an absolute rule. . For more information, contact Russ Davenport, Inside Out Networks at 512/301-7080, 8313 Highway 71 W, Suite B, Austin, Texas 78735 or at their web site at www.ionetworks.com.
CONTACT: Davis-Marrin Communications
Mark Shapiro, 619/573-0736
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