RSA Releases ESCON Channel Card.Business/Technology Editors ROCHESTER, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 10, 2001 Rochester Software Associates (RSA (1) (Rural Service Area) See MSA. (2) (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) A highly secure cryptography method by RSA Security, Inc., Bedford, MA (www.rsa.com), a division of EMC Corporation since 2006. It uses a two-part key. ), a software development and consulting firm with its headquarters in Rochester, New York This article is about the city of Rochester in Monroe County. For the town in Ulster County, see Rochester, Ulster County, New York. Rochester, once known as The Flour City, and more recently as The Flower City or , announced the availability of its new RSA ESCON (Enterprise Systems CONnection) An IBM S/390 fiber-optic channel that transfers 17 Mbytes/sec over distances up to 60 km depending on connection type. ESCON allows peripheral devices to be located across large campuses and metropolitan areas. Channel Card. The RSA ESCON Channel Card offers greater flexibility in mainframe connectivity, and is the latest addition to RSA's family of IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) channel solutions. ESCON is a fiber-optic link available on most mainframes, and is a standard interconnection method for IBM's Enterprise Systems. The ESCON interface provides higher speed, and reliability compared to the S/390 parallel Bus & Tag channel. The RSA ESCON Channel Card features a PCI card, compatible with Sun Solaris, used to replace Bus & Tag channel attached connections from IBM mainframes to production printers. The card can be installed directly on the Sun print controller of most production PostScript printers, providing a direct ESCON connection from the mainframe to the printer. In addition, the RSA ESCON Channel Card can be installed in a separate low cost Sun workstation, and act as a powerful ESCON Channel Server. The ESCON Channel Server can distribute mainframe print data to up to 24 different printers, including desktop and midrange printers that do not have a Sun print controller. Donald Webster, RSA Director of Technology, said, "Mainframe customers have been migrating to ESCON, and getting away from Bus & Tag connectivity. RSA's new ESCON Channel Card takes advantage of this market trend, and enables customers to connect production printers directly via their ESCON link." RSA specializes in digital document production software. It has extensive experience in print-on-demand software solutions, web ordering software, networking and connectivity, database development and print transform software including its industry leading M.I.S. Print TM. M.I.S. Print converts line printer and Xerox LCDS data streams (DJDE DJDE Dynamic Job Descriptor Entry (Xerox) , Metacode, XES) to industry standard PostScript or PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. for viewing, archiving and/or printing. M.I.S. Print enables firms to print mainframe legacy data on new PostScript production printers. RSA's software solutions are sold by leaders in the industry such as Xerox Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : XRX XRX Xerox Corporation (stock symbol) ), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Heidelberg, IKON (NYSE: IKN) and Canon (NYSE: CAJ). M.I.S. Print is a trademark of Rochester Software Associates, Inc. All non-RSA brands and product names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners. |
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