REPEATING/Network Peripherals Announces New Keystone24g Switch, 'Powered by NuWaveArchitecture'.MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 1999-- First of a Series of Layer 3 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. Switches Based on Revolutionary Wire-Speed, Non-Blocking NuWaveArchitecture(TM) Network Peripherals Inc. (NPI NPI National Provider Identifier, see there )(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), an innovative leader in the network switching industry, today announced the release of its Keystone24g(TM), the first Gigabit Ethernet switch to be built with NPI's revolutionary NuWaveArchitecture, also announced separately today. "The new Keystone24g outperforms competitive offerings at a price more than a third lower, and will be joined by a line of new switches "Powered by NuWaveArchitecture" which we will announce during the next few weeks," said Jerry McDowell, Vice President of Marketing for NPI. "We believe switches like the Keystone24g will set a new standard for price-performance in the Layer 3 Gigabit Ethernet switch market," McDowell added. Features: Built for Speed -- and Flexibility The Keystone24g is a fully managed standalone switch with 24 fixed 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 optional Gigabit up-links. The Keystone24g 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 Keystone24g can be used as a concentrator for a wiring closet The central distribution or servicing point for cables in a network. See MDF and wire center. , as the collapsed backbone A network configuration that provides a backbone in a centralized location, to which all subnetworks are attached. A collapsed backbone is implemented in a router or switch that uses a high-speed backplane that can handle the simultaneous traffic of all or most of its ports at full wire for a small business or branch office, or as a departmental switch in a larger enterprise. 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 Keystone24g 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. 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. "Unlike some of our competitors, we do not charge as much as $5,000 extra for options such as Web-based management," said NPI's McDowell. "With NuWaveArchitecture, our margins are so favorable that we don't need to offset low-margin hardware by charging users high add-on prices for features they need." "The Internet, the World Wide Web and technologies such as Gigabit Ethernet are enabling transformation of small and mid-sized businesses into emerging enterprises, with enterprise-class networking needs and aggressive cost and ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). requirements," 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. "By combining silicon-based cost and performance advantages, flexibility and simplicity, NPI's Keystone24g and NuWaveArchitecture look like important first steps in expanding access emerging enterprises to such critical features as browser-based management and enterprise-class network performance," Dortch added. Keystone24g Availability and Pricing The Keystone24g is the first in a series of products "Powered by NuWaveArchitecture" NPI will release during the next several weeks. The Keystone24g 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 800/674-8855 or visit http://www.npix.com on the World Wide Web for further information. NPI is taking the lead in aggressive per-port pricing and setting new standards of engineering excellence in the Layer 3 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet switch market. The Keystone24g is priced at $6,595 for 24 10/100-Mbps auto-sensing, auto-negotiating switch ports, as well as two pre-installed Gigabit Ethernet up-links. This brings the Keystone24g to a price-point 30 to 40 percent lower than similarly configured Layer 3 Gigabit Ethernet switches, while offering superior performance and flexibility. As the Keystone24g's Gigabit Ethernet ports are designed as slide-in modules, alternate configurations with one or no Gigabit ports are also supported. These are priced at $5,645 and $4,695, respectively. The company also expects to announce plug-in Gigabit modules for use with Category 5 copper cabling in the near future. Keystone24g: Powered by NuWaveArchitecture NPI's new Keystone24g Gigabit Ethernet switch is the market's first product "Powered by NuWaveArchitecture," a breakthrough combination of savvy 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, 3 and soon, at 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 that 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(TM) Network Peripherals Inc. (NPI)(NASDAQ:NPIX), headquartered in Milpitas, 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 800/674-8855 or visit http://www.npix.com on the World Wide Web. Note to Editors: NuWaveArchitecture, "Powered by NuWaveArchitecture" and Keystone24g are trademarks of Network Peripherals. Other trademarks are property of their respective owners. |
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