Network Peripherals Extends Market-Leading Price-Performance with New Cornerstone6g Switch, `Powered by NuWaveArchitecture'.MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 1999-- Second NPI NPI National Provider Identifier, see there offering based on Revolutionary, Wire-Speed, Non-Blocking NuWaveArchitecture Network Peripherals Inc. (NPI; NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :NPIX), building on the breakthrough price-performance of its unique NuWaveArchitecture, announced the release of its Cornerstone6g. The product is the second Gigabit Ethernet An Ethernet standard that transmits at 1 Gbps. Used mostly to connect high-end workstations and servers as well as for network backbones, Gigabit Ethernet transmits full duplex from point to point using switches and half duplex in a shared environment (CSMA/CD) using a hub. switch based on NPI's revolutionary NuWaveArchitecture, which offers unsurpassed performance and flexibility at unprecedented pricing. "The new Cornerstone6g extends the new market standards we set with the announcement of our NuWaveArchitecture and Keystone24g switch earlier this month," said Bill Rosenberger, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of NPI. "The Cornerstone6g includes the features users need and want most, at per-port pricing as low as half of what some of our competitors charge for similar functionality," Rosenberger added. Meeting the Growing Need for Affordable Speed The Cornerstone6g appears at a time when the requirement for Gigabit speed is being driven by constant growth and change in corporate networks, as well as by bandwidth-eating applications. Layer 3 switches push the need for routers needs to the edge of the network, opening up the ability to more cost-effectively deploy and manage larger and larger 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. populations and their attendant applications more cost-effectively. The Cornerstone6g includes as many as 12 Gigabit ports (SX and LX), 16 Fast Ethernet An earlier name for 100Mbps Ethernet. See 100Base-T. (networking) Fast Ethernet - A version of Ethernet developed in the 1990s(?) which can carry 100 Mbps compared with standard Ethernet's 10 Mbps. It requires upgraded network cards and hubs. ports and two WAN interfaces. "Configured with 16 Gigabit ports, the switch's per-port price is approximately $1,115. In comparison, Extreme Networks' Summit 1 switch, configured with only eight fixed SX Gigabit ports and no expansion capability, has a per-port price of approximately $2,249, or more than twice the per-port pricing of the more powerful Cornerstone6g," said Jerry McDowell, NPI's Vice President of Worldwide Marketing. "Another switch offering from Foundry Networks Foundry Networks is a network system vendor selling high-end managed ethernet switches and routers. The company was founded in 1996 by Bobby R. Johnson, Jr. and is based in Santa Clara, California, USA. , the TurboIron8, with only eight fixed SX Gigabit ports and no expansion capabilities, comes in at approximately $1874 per port, 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. currently published prices," McDowell added. Powerful Features for Power Users, Workgroups and Data Centers The Cornerstone6g is a highly scalable, fully managed standalone switch that supports high-capacity Gigabit Ethernet, Fast Ethernet and WAN interfaces, which users can mix and match to meet their specific needs. This unique combination of options makes NPI's Cornerstone6g an ideal high-performance switch for a range of applications, including data centers, backbones and power workgroups. All-Gigabit switches used in corporate backbone networks assist in eliminating traffic bottleneck problems, thus increasing user productivity. The Cornerstone6g, like all NPI switches built on the NuWaveArchitecture, features advanced traffic-enhancing capabilities such as wire-speed IP routing and support for Quality of Service (QoS) traffic classes, IP Multicast A one-to-many transmission of data over an IP network. It is used for a myriad of purposes including updating routers, announcing and discovering services and streaming media. IP multicast saves network bandwidth, because packets are transmitted as one stream over the backbone and only and protocol-based virtual local-area networks Local-area networks Computer networks that usually cover a limited range, say, within the boundary of a building. A computer network is two or more computers that communicate with each other through some medium. (VLANs). The new switch installs quickly, provides instant bandwidth relief and reduces operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales through simple management and automatic features. Browser-Based Management at No Extra Cost The Cornerstone6g offers a range of management choices, including NPI's own built-in management software, which can be accessed using a Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. such as Microsoft Internet Explorer See Internet Explorer. , Netscape Navigator An earlier Web browser for Windows, Macintosh and X Windows from Netscape that provided secure transmission over the Internet. Soon after its introduction in 1994, Navigator, or just "Netscape," as it was commonly called, quickly became the leading browser on the Web. or Netscape Communicator An earlier suite of Web browsing and groupware tools from Netscape that were packaged as a bundle starting with Navigator 4.0. Communicator refers to any Netscape Navigator product with a version number less than 6.0. . Hewlett-Packard's OpenView, as well as other management systems based on the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) A widely used network monitoring and control protocol. Data are passed from SNMP agents, which are hardware and/or software processes reporting activity in each network device (hub, router, bridge, etc. ) are also supported. Like its predecessor, the Keystone24g switch designed primarily for smaller companies and enterprise branch offices, the Cornerstone6g includes browser-based remote management at no extra cost. This results in additional savings of as much as $5,000 over competing offerings that only offer this critical feature as an extra-cost option. "Large enterprises, data centers and power workgroups are driving the rapidly growing demand for manageable and cost-effective high-speed networking services," said Michael Dortch, Senior Research Analyst at The Robert Frances Group, a Westport, Conn.-based provider of timely market research to CIOs and IT managers. "However, until the introduction of NPI's Cornerstone6g, all but the richest and largest enterprises were priced out Priced out The market has already incorporated information, such as a low dividend, into the price of a stock. of Gigabit services, especially at Layer 3. The Cornerstone6g delivers an unprecedented package of capacity, flexibility, manageability and economy, underscoring the unique strengths of NPI's NuWaveArchitecture," Dortch added. Cornerstone6g Availability and Pricing The Cornerstone6g is the second in a series of products "Powered by NuWaveArchitecture" NPI is releasing during the next several weeks. The Cornerstone6g joins the Keystone24g, a 24-port Fast Ethernet switch with two Gigabit uplinks that was announced last week. These two switches and subsequent products "Powered by NuWaveArchitecture" will be available for OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and and select user evaluation during June of 1999. Initial shipments to NPI's OEM partners and worldwide VAR channel will begin during the third quarter of 1999. Interested OEMs or potential beta users should contact NPI at 1-800-674-8855 or visit http://www.npix.com on the World Wide Web for further information. With the Cornerstone6g, NPI is extending its lead in aggressive per-port pricing and engineering excellence in the Layer 3 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet switch market. The Cornerstone6g is priced at $8,695 for its base configuration of six fixed SX Gigabit ports. Options include a six-port Gigabit Module (SX or LX) priced at $4,695, and a 10/100-Mbps module with 16 auto-sensing, auto-negotiating switch ports for $1,795. The switch is also configured to accept two WAN interface modules, scheduled for release later this year. A Cornerstone configured with 12 Gigabit ports is priced at $13,390. A fully configured Cornerstone6g with 12 Gigabit ports and 16 Fast Ethernet ports is priced at $15,185. The company expects to announce pricing for the WAN interfaces and a version of the Cornerstone6g for use with Category 5 copper cabling in the near future. Cornerstone6g: Powered by NuWaveArchitecture NPI's new Cornerstone6g Gigabit Ethernet switch is "Powered by NuWaveArchitecture," a breakthrough combination of a, "future-proof" design and proprietary Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) from NPI. This breakthrough in switching architecture allows NPI and select OEM partners to build switches that offer unprecedented price-performance, flexibility, ease of use and manageability. Using NPI's NuWaveArchitecture, OEMs can create multiple configurations of fully managed, wire-speed, non-blocking, stackable or standalone Fast Ethernet and Gigabit switches. Each can support up to 64 Gbps of bandwidth, as well as from 24 to 120 ports, operating at Layers 2 and 3, with future plans for Layer 4 -- all without significant new hardware or software engineering. Switches "Powered by NuWaveArchitecture" route IP packets at wire speeds and support Quality of Service (QoS) traffic classes, as well as optional wide-area networking (WAN) interfaces. The result of over two years and 20 million dollars in research and development, NPI's NuWaveArchitecture is designed to let OEMs quickly create or expand their product lines for the lucrative, rapidly growing small to mid-size enterprise markets, faster, at lower costs and with greater functionality than possible with other switch architectures. More details are available from NPI or at http://www.npix.com on the World Wide Web. Network Peripherals, The Gigabit Ethernet Company Network Peripherals Inc. (NPI; NASDAQ:NPIX), headquartered in Milpitas, California, supplies a full range of Layer 2/Layer 3 Ethernet switches and Fiber Distributed Data Interface See FDDI. Fiber Distributed Data Interface - (FDDI) A 100 Mbit/s ANSI standard local area network architecture, defined in X3T9.5. The underlying medium is optical fibre (though it can be copper cable, in which case it may be called CDDI) and the topology is a (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. ) switches and hubs on an OEM basis to other industry-leading manufacturers. NPI also sells products under its own brand to a worldwide channel of value-added resellers (VARs). NPI's primary business focus is on 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet Layer 2/Layer 3 switches built with its ASIC-based NuWaveArchitecture. These products will be used as switching solutions for workgroups, wiring closets and backbones, and are designed to enhance the bandwidth and performance of small and mid-sized enterprise networks, embrace all popular high-speed technologies and preserve the end-user's current Ethernet investments. For more information about NPI call 1-800-674-8855 or visit http://www.npix.com on the World Wide Web. Note to Editors: NuWaveArchitecture, "Powered by NuWaveArchitecture" and Cornerstone6g are trademarks of Network Peripherals. Other trademarks are property of their respective owners. |
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