PACKET ENGINES TO VISIT TEN CITIES -- GIGABIT ETHERNET FOCUS.SPOKANE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 26, 1997--Packet Engines Incorporated(TM) will visit 10 U.S. cities as part of a nationwide seminar series conducted by Scott Bradner of Harvard University. The seminar series covers high-speed networking and ways in which fast Local Area Network (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. ) technologies can be used to overcome the challenges of network traffic overload. Packet Engines will focus on Gigabit Ethernet solutions, and company representatives will be explaining the company's recent product announcements involving Gigabit Ethernet network interface cards and full-duplex repeaters. Bradner has been involved in the design, operation and use of data networks at Harvard since the early days of the ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork) The research network funded by the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). The software was developed by Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN), and Honeywell 516 minicomputers were the first hardware used as . He was involved in the design of the Harvard High-Speed Data Network (HSDN HSDN High Speed Data Network HSDN Homeland Secure Data Network HSDN High Seas Drift Net HSDN High Speed Digital Network ), the Longwood Medical Area network (LMAnet) and NEARNET NEARNET New England Academic and Research Network . The seminar series kicks off today in Chicago. Other cities to be visited through April 24 include Dallas, Washington, D.C., Boston, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Irvine, California, San Francisco, New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and Atlanta. Packet Engines will unveil its new FDR12 full-duplex repeater and G-NIC network interface cards at the upcoming Networld+Interop show in Las Vegas in early May. The company will be exhibiting in Booth 1123 located in the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center The Las Vegas Convention Center is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and is located in Clark County, Nevada. It is one of the largest Convention centers in the world. At the end of 2004, the center had 3. . Packet Engines Incorporated is a networking systems company focused on the Gigabit Ethernet market. Since beginning internal Gigabit Ethernet efforts in July 1995, the company has successfully pushed for an industry standards effort, built a strong development and marketing team, delivered its first Gigabit Ethernet technology and secured venture funding. Packet Engines expects Gigabit Ethernet to be the backbone LAN of choice, replacing 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 eliminating the need for a massive industry transition to ATM. Contact http://www.packetengines.com for additional information about Packet Engines. CONTACT: Packet Engines Incorporated Nancy Goodspeed, 509/922-9190 |
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