N.E.T. Expands FrameXpress Family of Frame Relay Access Products for Carrier or Enterprise Networks.REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 16, 1997--N.E.T. today announced the expansion of its FrameXpress(TM) frame relay product family with the introduction of the FrameXpress 1000 Frame Relay Access Switch. The FrameXpress 1000 switch aggregates and adapts digital and analog voice, data, and fax traffic for frame relay access to public frame relay services and enterprise networks. Multiprotocol LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. traffic such as Ethernet and Token Ring and a variety of legacy-traffic types including SNA and asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. applications can be consolidated by the FrameXpress 1000 switch for cost-effective routing over frame relay networks. The FrameXpress 1000 access switching architecture features a midplane shelf with sixteen slots designed to accommodate traffic in central office or regional sites. A reliable congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. management scheme monitors and discards traffic according to explicit rate methodology and throttles back traffic according to the Committed Information Rate (communications) Committed Information Rate - (CIR) The guaranteed average bandwidth of a virtual circuit in a frame relay network. The CIR plus the Excess Information Rate (EIR, burst rate) is equal to or less than the speed of the access port into the network. . The FrameXpress 1000 switch conforms to ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. and ITU-T See ITU. ITU-T - International Telecommunications Union standards to provide compatibility with various public networks around the world. A multiprotocol module provides high-density frame-relay routing for 56 56/64 kbit/s lines that can be linked to public frame relay services or enterprise networks. Beyond Ethernet and Token Ring support, the module provides connections for bridges, routers, synchronous data devices and bit- and byte-oriented protocols such as frame relay, X.25, SNA/SDLC, transparent HDLC, TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. and IPX. Voice traffic can be converted to frame relay format and be given highest priority. A digital voice module supports up to 72 T1 or 90 E1 voice lines when fully configured. The FrameXpress 1000 provides connections to private branch exchanges via the T1/E1 interfaces. An analog voice module, which supports eight voice/fax lines, integrates digitized and compressed voice and fax with other data when used in combination with other modules. The voice switching feature supports "any-to-any" connectivity between voice hunt groups which can eliminate the need for extra lines. Networks can cost-effectively integrate a large volume of voice traffic onto a compressed-voice frame relay wide-area network (WAN). The FrameXpress 1000 Frame Relay Access Switch is planned for availability in September. The FrameXpress 1000 switch configured with four data ports starts at $10,050 list price, and four voice ports could be added for $4,000 list price. N.E.T., headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., is a leading worldwide supplier of multiservice backbone networks used by enterprises and global carriers in more than 50 countries. N.E.T. multiservice WANs and ATM products integrate voice, data, and video traffic with ATM, frame relay, LAN internetworking and ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. capabilities for today's mission-critical applications. The company is certified to the worldwide ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001 standard for design, manufacturing and servicing. Join us at our worldwide web site: http://www.net.com for further information. -0- Note to Editors: N.E.T. and FrameXpress are trademarks, and the N.E.T. logo is a registered trademark of Network Equipment Technologies, Inc. CONTACT: N.E.T. Jo Minola, 415/780-5177 |
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