Interphase announces the availability of seven new ATM adapters; the company unveils the broadest family of ATM adapter products supporting leading PC and workstation platforms.DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 6, 1995--Interphase Corp. (NASDAQ/NMS:INPH) Monday announced that it has added seven new 155 Mbps ATM adapter cards to its extensive ATM product family, bringing the total available ATM offerings to 29 products.Interphase's most recent ATM products expand connectivity to a wide variety of systems, including Microsoft Windows NT (Intel and PowerPC), Novell NetWare, Silicon Graphics Indy and Indigo, and HP 9000 series 700 platforms. With the addition of these latest products, Interphase unveils the broadest family of ATM adapter cards available in the industry today. ``This latest announcement is another example of Interphase's commitment to supply customers with a wide variety of affordable ATM products with standard-based compatibility,'' said Edward T. Sullivan, ATM technical director at Interphase. ``Interphase supports all of the popular platforms, offering users a wide variety of choices that meet interoperability requirements needed for enterprise deployment of ATM.'' Sullivan explained that ATM customers typically have a variety of platforms to support with different busses, operating systems and switches. ``Interphase is simplifying the ATM networking demands of our customers by providing adapters that support every system and switch in their network,'' Sullivan continued. ``And currently, Interphase is the only company that can make that statement.'' The company introduced four ATM EISA (Extended ISA) Pronounced "ee-suh." A PC bus standard that extends the 16-bit ISA bus (AT bus) to 32 bits and provides bus mastering. ISA cards can plug into an EISA slot. adapter cards designed for Microsoft Windows NT and Novell NetWare servers and clients, HP 9000 series 700 workstations and Silicon Graphics Indigo 2 workstations. The 4815 EISA ATM adapter cards include: o 100 Mbps TAXI multimode fiber, o 155 Mbps OC-3 SONET UTP UTP (uridine triphosphate): see uracil. (Unshielded Twisted Pair) See twisted pair. UTP - unshielded twisted pair Cat 5 copper, o 155 Mbps OC-3 SONET multimode fiber, and o 155 Mbps OC-3 SONET single mode fiber. The adapters are full-size, single-slot EISA bus ATM adapters that support HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. 10.0, NetWare ODI, IRIX A Unix-based operating system from SGI that is used in its computer systems from desktop to supercomputer. It is an enhanced version of Unix System V Release 4. IRIX integrates the X Window system with OpenGL, creating the first real time 3D X environment. 5.3 and Windows NT 3.5, and complies fully to the EISA bus specification. The adapter includes a hardware SAR (Segmentation And Reassembly) The protocol that converts data to cells for transmission over an ATM network. It is the lower part of the ATM Adaption Layer (AAL), which is responsible for the entire operation. See AAL. SAR - segmentation and reassembly and custom bus DMA (1) (Digital Media Adapter) See digital media hub. (2) (Document Management Alliance) A specification that provides a common interface for accessing and searching document databases. ASICs, as well as 512K of on-board packet RAM for optimum performance. A modular media interface is also included for easy field-upgrades to different physical media. Pricing starts at $1,195 and the 4815 adapter cards will be available in March. The company also introduced three GIO GIO Giovedì (Italian: Thursday) GIO Government Information Office GIO Geographic Information Officer GIO General Insurance Ombudservice GIO Government Information Online GIO Government Insurance Office ATM adapter cards designed for Silicon Graphics Indy and Indigo workstations. The 4915 GIO ATM cards include: o 155 Mbps OC-3 SONET UTP Cat 5 copper, o 155 Mbps OC-3 SONET multimode fiber, and o 155 Mbps OC-3 SONET single mode fiber. The 4915 is a single wide, single-slot GIO bus ATM adapter that supports IRIX 5.3, and is compatible with the most popular and cost- effective SGI workstations. The adapters include a hardware SAR and custom bus DMA ASICs for optimum performance. Pricing for the 4915 adapter cards starts at $1,295 and availability is scheduled for April. The Interphase ATM product family consists of 29 varieties of ATM adapter cards that support Microsoft Windows (Intel and PowerPC), Apple Power Macintosh, Sun Microsystems SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill , Hewlett- Packard 9000, IBM RS/6000, Silicon Graphics and Motorola platforms. The company's adapters implement the PMC, SBus, EISA, GIO, HP-PB HP-PB Hewlett-Packard Precision Bus , VME and PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). system bus standards. A mix of single and multimode fiber, copper, various buffer sizes, and 100 Mb and 155 Mbps data rates are available options on various cards. Interphase ATM adapters support both ATM Forum LAN Emulation and RFC1577, making these products the only adapters on the market to offer support for both of the standard legacy LAN migration architectures. In addition, all adapters are managed through Interphase's innovative CellView network management software, which allows customers to easily install, configure and test Interphase ATM adapters. Prices start at $650. CellView Network Management software provides a graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to on MOTIF, MS-Windows and MacOS and places diagnostic and performance data at the network manager's fingertips. Easy-to-use scripts configure the adapters and provide network managers with a step-by-step installation that takes only minutes. ``Support for the installed base of system platforms is critical to the future acceptance of ATM technology at the desktop,'' said Stephane Albert, product line marketing manager for Bay Networks. ``Users must connect a variety of systems from a number of vendors, all using different bus types and operating systems. By offering such a large variety of choices, Interphase is removing a major barrier to ATM acceptance in the marketplace.'' Albert continued, ``In addition, Interphase's aggressive pricing will help bring ATM to the masses.'' Interphase, based in Dallas, is a leading supplier of desktop and server I/O products for high speed networks. The company has pioneered performance adapter processing in client/server environments for more than 20 years, leading the industry in SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. , FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface) Often pronounced "fiddy," it was a LAN and MAN access method that had its heyday in the mid-1990s. FDDI was an ANSI standard token passing network that transmitted 100 Mbps over optical fiber up to 10 kilometers. and ATM technologies. Interphase sells to OEMs, distributors, systems integrators and value-added resellers through a worldwide sales and service network. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: All trademarks are property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Interphase Corp., Dallas Alison Golan, 214/919-9120 |
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