NetSpeed's SpeedRunner and PCIRunner E4 products provide ADSL connectivity to corporate and consumer end-users.LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 6, 1997--NetSpeed announced Tuesday three new products for connecting corporate and residential customers to ADSL See DSL. ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line service. The SpeedRunner(TM) 202, SpeedRunner(TM) 300, and PCIRunner(TM) 100 are designed to offer best-of-breed performance at an economical price. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Kent Savage, vice president of sales and marketing for NetSpeed, "NetSpeed's customer premise product line is the most comprehensive family of products available on the market. NetSpeed has designed customer products to fit customer needs and budgets." Both the SpeedRunner products and the PCIRunner have two unique embedded technologies that allow them to interoperate with NetSpeed's patented Digital Off-Hook(TM) ADSL modem pooling technology. QuickDial(TM) and SoftIdle(TM) technologies enable customer premise products to integrate with telco operating companies who pool ADSL modems with NetSpeed LoopRunner(TM) multiplexers. QuickDial guarantees fast reconnection of a link that has been disconnected due to inactivity. Through fast reconnection, QuickDial insures that each xDSL subscriber perceives a continuous service connection, even though the physical layer connection is maintained only during data transmission. Using the access flexibility provided by Digital Off-Hook and QuickDial, service providers can offer a wide array of service classes. Dedicated service (one modem to one connection) may be offered to high usage customers, such as large businesses, where a dedicated and continuous xDSL connection is required. This premium service may be tariffed accordingly, while a shared service may be offered to residential users and light-use business customers at significantly reduced prices. The Speedrunner 202 is the next generation ADSL/Ethernet router from NetSpeed that connects corporate local area networks (LANs) to ADSL service providers. The SpeedRunner 202 is a full IP/IPX router and firewall that seamlessly drops into the existing 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. without the need for additional equipment. Capable of downstream speeds of 7 Mbps and upstream speeds of 1 Mbps, the SpeedRunner 202 routes corporate LAN traffic into ATM cells for transport across the ADSL local loop. The SpeedRunner 202 firewall will be implemented as a "screening router A router that performs packet filtering and is used as a firewall. In many cases, a single screening router is used as the entire firewall solution. See firewall, packet filter and router.  ." The firewall software will not be visible to network users of the router. Therefore, network client software will not need to be modified as it would for a proxy-style firewall implementation. Also, users will not need to learn new network procedures or software. The SpeedRunner 300 is also a product designed for corporate installations and is the first ADSL inverse multiplexer An inverse multiplexer (often abbreviated to "inverse mux" or "imux") allows a data stream to be broken into multiple lower data rate communications links. An inverse multiplexer differs from a demultiplexer in that each of the low rate links coming from it is related to the other and the fastest ADSL product in the industry. The SpeedRunner 300 utilizes NetSpeed's BroadBond(TM) technology to aggregate up to three internal ADSL modems to provide 21 Mbps performance. The Speedrunner 300 is a high-performance multi-port ADSL inverse multiplexer with one Ethernet port A socket on a computer or network device for plugging in an Ethernet cable. See WAN port. and up to three ADSL ports. SpeedRunner 300 is designed for remote office connectivity, Internet gateway (1) See cable/DSL gateway. (2) A router or server that converts IP packets to IPX, AppleTalk or some other non-IP format and vice versa. It is used to connect non-IP networks to the Internet. , or fiber extension applications. Each ADSL port is rate adaptive and delivers up to 7 Mbps downstream and 1 Mbps upstream each, providing 21 Mbps/3 Mbps asymmetric and 3 Mbps/3 Mbps symmetric service. A 10Base-T/100Base-T interface is provided for connection to a LAN backbone. An onboard communications processor supports IP and IPX (Internetwork Packet EXchange) The network layer protocol in the NetWare operating system. Similar to the IP layer in TCP/IP, it contains a network address and allows messages to be routed to a different network or subnet. routing and spanning-tree bridging. The SpeedRunner 300 creates a new category of corporate data access between current T1 and T3 delivery products. Because ADSL will be more cost-effective to deploy than T1 or T3 technologies, inverse muxed ADSL could redefine the current pricing constructs of telco-provided data carrier services. NetSpeed's BroadBond inverse multiplexing allows rapid deployment of multiple xDSL lines to a single premise site. BroadBond aggregates the bandwidth between the network and the premise using NetSpeed's QuickDial technology and industry standard Multilink PPP (MLPPP See MPPP. ) to provide broadband-on-demand capability. The PCIRunner 100 is a plug and play high performance ADSL adapter card that plugs directly into PCI bus computers. The PCIRunner 100 is intended for residential users interested in connecting a single Windows 95/NT workstation or Windows NT server into an ADSL delivery network. PCIRunner 100 is rate adaptive with peak rates up to 7 Mbps downstream to the premise and 1.0 megabits per second (unit) megabits per second - (Mbps, Mb/s) Millions of bits per second. A unit of data rate. 1 Mb/s = 1,000,000 bits per second (not 1,048,576). E.g. Ethernet can carry 10 Mbps. upstream. PCIRunner is fully PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). compliant (Rev. 2.1). Driver support includes Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.51/4.0. NetSpeed Broadband ATM Service Architecture NetSpeed's Broadband ATM Service Architecture provides secure point to point connections over the ATM network from remote users or LANs to the corporate or ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. home network. The network provider can use NetSpeed's Broadband ATM Service Architecture to deliver data, video, and voice services. ATM cells are transported from the SpeedRunner or PCIRunner at the subscriber CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) Communications equipment that resides on the customer's premises. CPE - Customer Premises Equipment through LoopRunner and the network provider's ATM network to the FireRunner located at the CPE of the ISP or corporate Intranet network. SVC (1) (Switched Virtual Circuit) A network connection that is established at the time the transmission is required and disconnected when the session is completed. connections are initiated at either network endpoint. LoopRunner routes SVC connection requests to the next ATM switch for continuation through the network. Pricing and Availability Product Price Availability SpeedRunner 202 $1,295 July SpeedRunner 300 $8,995 August PCIRunner $595 July NetSpeed is a leader in end-to-end broadband access product solutions for service providers, corporations, and consumers. NetSpeed's QuickDial(TM) technology and products are designed to provide bandwidth on demand, allow deployment of pervasive low-cost xDSL services, and enable high-speed Internet and Intranet access, videoconferencing, telecommuting telecommuting, an arrangement by which people work at home using a computer and telephone, transmitting work material to a business office by means of a modem and telephone lines; it is also known as telework. , and video on demand. For further information, visit NetSpeed's World Wide Web site at http://www.netspeed.com or call 800/550-ADSL or 512/249-8055. CONTACT: NetSpeed, Austin, Texas Charlene Rogers, 512/249-3101 or 800/550-ADSL or Network Associates, Provo, Utah Sherri Walkenhorst, 801/373-7888 sherri@netassoc.com |
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