Olicom Unveils Industry's First ATM Adapter to Support Advanced Traffic Management -- 'Available Bit Rate' Traffic Class.ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 1998--(NetWorld+Interop)-- ABR (1) (AutoBaud Rate detect) The analysis of the first characters of a message to determine its transmission speed and number of start and stop bits. (2) (Available Bit R Functionality in Olicom's New RapidFire 616x ATM Adapters Seen as Critical to the Smooth Integration of ATM into Legacy LANs Olicom (Nasdaq:OLCMF), a leading global supplier of high-performance networking solutions, today unveiled the first ATM adapters in the industry to support the ATM Forum's ABR (Available Bit Rate) traffic class for advanced traffic management, giving network managers an important assurance of reliability in deploying ATM in their enterprise networks. In addition, Olicom's new ATM adapters are among the first in the industry to comply with the PC98 and Server98 industry initiatives, and feature full support for Winsock2, enabling 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. applications to take advantage of ATM's quality-of-service capabilities. ABR is an intelligent traffic flow control mechanism, unique in ATM, that works to identify and dynamically alleviate 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. at any point in the ATM network. Support for ABR in the network adapter A printed circuit board that plugs into the bus of both user machines (clients) and servers in a local area network (LAN). Also commonly called a "network interface card" (NIC) or "LAN card," the network adapter transmits data onto the network and receives data from the network. is an essential component for the implementation of advanced traffic management across the entire enterprise network. Moreover, Olicom's new ATM adapters support both methods of ABR flow control, Explicit Forward Congestion Indication (EFCI EFCI Explicit Forward Congestion Indication EFCI External Function Call Interface ) and Explicit Rate (ER). ABR/ER, the newest and most efficient method of traffic management, has been designed to handle the specific characteristics of legacy LAN traffic, and is seen as a critical capability for the effective integration of ATM into traditional Ethernet and Token-Ring networks. The newest additions to Olicom's award-winning line of ATM adapters, the RapidFire(tm) 6161 ATM155 ABR Adapter (UTP UTP (uridine triphosphate): see uracil. (Unshielded Twisted Pair) See twisted pair. UTP - unshielded twisted pair ) and the RapidFire 6162 ATM155 ABR Adapter (Fiber), provide a fourfold fourfold Adjective 1. having four times as many or as much 2. composed of four parts Adverb by four times as many or as much Adj. 1. increase in channel capacity over the Company's previous generation of RapidFire ATM Adapters. The RapidFire 616x series supports up to 4096 virtual channel connections (VCCs), making them ideally suited for server applications. "AB president, product marketing for Olicom. "With Olicom's new RapidFire ATM Adapters feature integrated support of ABR in hardware, as well as in software, to ensure the instant responsiveness of the ABR flow conty firsts in ATM for Olicom, including the firstEthernet and Token-Ring LANs; and most recently, the first ATM switch to support ABR traffic management. In addition, Olicom's ClearSession(tm) fault tolerance See fault tolerant. (architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. solution for deploying ATM in mission-critical environments is the onlyance solution for ATM-attached file servers thaty ATM-connected file servers in mission-criticairst redundancy scheme of its kind to maintain simultaneously active connections on each adapter. This 'active redundancy' not only delivers the fastest reconnect times rver installation.) Olicom's predecessor tpport. Olicom also gained an important endorsemem and Rockwell Semiconductor demonstrated the interoperability of ATM devices running ABR (Available Bit Rate) Explicit Rate with those running the legacy method of flow control, called EFCI (Explicit Forward Congestion Indication). The tst and only ATM switches on the market to support the ATM Forum's ABR Explicit Rate scheme. Pricing and Avs, and markets its products for large, geographically dispersed enterprises. Olicom specializes in providing campus network connectivity solutions, advanced technical support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services and ClearStep SM evolution strategies for networks in product, and service information on its Web siults and trends. Further information on factors, ClearServer, ClearSession, ClearStep, CrossFire A multi-GPU interface from ATI for connecting two ATI display adapters together for faster graphics rendering on one monitor. CrossFire machines require PCI Express slots, a CrossFire-enabled motherboard and, depending on which models are used, either a pair of ATI Radeon adapters or one and RapidFire are trademarks of Olicom A/S. All other brand and product names are registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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