SMC delivers industry's most complete Fast Ethernet solution; TigerSwitch XLE and TigerSwitch 100 enable scaleable Switched Ethernet and Fast Ethernet networks.in the switching market, today introduced the most complete line of 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. switching products available, fulfilling the promise of Fast Ethernet as a seamless, high performance and low cost fast 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. technology. Included in the announcement are the TigerSwitch 100, a family of 10/100 Fast Ethernet switches, and the TigerSwitch XLE XLE Xerox Linguistic Environment XLE Extra Limited Edition , 12 and 24 port 10 Mbps switches with Fast Ethernet uplinks. These switches add to SMC's previously announced Fast Ethernet interfaces for the EliteSwitch ES/1 line of multi-protocol backbone switches and existing line of Fast Ethernet hubs and adapters. When deployed in combination, these products enable the use of switched Ethernet An Ethernet network that is controlled by a switch instead of a shared hub. The switch cross connects all clients, servers and network devices, giving each sending-receiving pair the full rated transmission speed. to enhance the throughput of existing Ethernet LANs with Fast Ethernet for switch-to-switch and switch-to-server connections, functioning as the network glue for the switched infrastructure. "As deployment of Ethernet switching grows within today's networks, the question of providing high speed connections between switches and to the servers becomes important," said Bob Gohn, Product Line Director, SMC SMC Saint Mary's College SMC Santa Monica College SMC Solaris Management Console SMC Smooth Muscle Cell SMC Small Magellanic Cloud (also see LMC) SMC Safety Management Certificate (maritime shipping) . "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. remains relatively expensive and ATM has some growing up to do for departmental applications. With these Fast Ethernet products, SMC can offer scaleable Ethernet solutions with aggregate bandwidths exceeding 5 Gbps at very attractive prices, without leaving the comfort of well understood Ethernet technology." The TigerSwitch 100 family consists of 8 and 16 port standalone 10/100 Fast Ethernet switches based on SMC's Multi-technology Asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. Switching (MAX) silicon. This scaleable technology enables the TigerSwitch 100 family to process over 1.2 million packet/sec, provide 1.6 Gbps of throughput, and very low latency of under 15 microseconds. Four different models are available for UTP UTP (uridine triphosphate): see uracil. (Unshielded Twisted Pair) See twisted pair. UTP - unshielded twisted pair and fiber cabling: - 8 port 100BaseTX with 1 selectable 100BaseFX port - 16 port 100BaseTX with 2 selectable 100BaseFX ports - 8 port 100BaseFX - 16 port 100BaseFX Each member of the TigerSwitch 100 family supports up to 8,192 MAC addresses, prevents error propagation through store-and-forward switching, supports creation of virtual LANs, implements the 802.1d Spanning Tree protocol Based on an algorithm invented by Radia Perlman while working for Digital Equipment Corporation[1][2], Spanning Tree Protocol Is an OSI layer-2 protocol which ensures a loop free topology for any bridged LAN. , and offers automatic multicast storm protection. Supporting IEEE 802.3u Auto-Negotiation, each 100BaseTX port automatically determines whether the network is operating at 10Mbps or 100 Mbps. Like all SMC's switches, the TigerSwitch 100 family utilizes a unique trunking feature that allows multiple parallel connections between switches, enabling up to 800Mbps connections between switches. TigerSwitch XLE is a family of 12 and 24-port 10Mbps Ethernet switches with an option slot supporting a two port Fast Ethernet module, enabling high speed connections to local servers and/or facility backbone networks. These switches offer full featured wire-speed performance combined with high-end SNMP-based management intelligence, including a unique virtual workgroup feature, complete network statistics, advanced filtering functions, and automatic multicast storm protection. SMC's trunking feature enables the grouping of two uplink ports into a single logical pipe for high bandwidth connection to higher level switches, such as the TigerSwitch 100. Uplink modules are available for both UTP (100BaseTX) and fiber (100BaseFX) connectivity. The complete feature set makes the TigerSwitch XLE powerful enough to be used in collapsed backbones, while cost-effective enough for dedicated Ethernet desktops. "SMC is now offering a complete range of stackable switches, supporting everything from small workgroups to FDDI switching backbones," said Eric Hindin, Program Manager of Data Communications, Yankee Group. "The real winner may be the very unique TigerSwitch 100, which offers 100 Mbps operation on all ports at a price point significantly lower than the only other similar 10/100 switch on the market." With this announcement, SMC brings a full line of Fast Ethernet products to market, ranging from PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). and EISA (Extended ISA) Pronounced "ee-suh." A PC bus standard that extends the 16-bit ISA bus (AT bus) to 32 bits and provides bus mastering. ISA cards can plug into an EISA slot. adapters and workgroups hubs to Fast Ethernet modules for SMC's EliteSwitch family of backbone LAN switches. Taken together, these products fulfill the promise of Fast Ethernet as high-performance, low-cost means of providing both high speed workgroup connectivity and high speed connections between switches and key resources like servers. The TigerSwitch 100 may be stacked with TigerSwitch XLEs to create a switching system with over 5.4 Gbps of aggregate bandwidth, up to 384 individual fully-featured Ethernet segments with 16 dedicated Fast Ethernet links, at less than $350 per port. Additionally, Fast Ethernet can be used to connect wire-closet based TigerSwitch XLEs providing microsegmentation to installed stackable or chassis-based hubs, into an ES/1 ATX-based collapsed backbone, offering up to 480 Ethernet segments, 20 Fast Ethernet segments, an aggregate bandwidth of 6.8 Gbps, with full IP, IPX (Internetwork Packet EXchange) The network layer protocol in the NetWare operating system. Similar to the IP layer in TCP/IP, it contains a network address and allows messages to be routed to a different network or subnet. and AppleTalk routing with support for virtual networks at less than $430 per port. This flexibility can be obtained without resorting to proprietary stacking or interconnect schemes. Price and Availability: All products will be available in November, and are priced as follows: TigerSwitch 100 8 port 100BaseTX Switch with 1 selectable 100BaseFX port $ 9,450 16 port 100BaseTX Switch with 2 selectable 100BaseFX ports $15,950 8 port 100BaseFX Switch $13,950 16 port 100BaseFX Switch $23,950 TigerSwitch XLE 24-port Ethernet switch with empty option slot $ 5,995 12-port Ethernet switch with empty option slot $ 3,995 24-port Ethernet switch with dual 100Base-TX uplinks $ 7,750 24-port Ethernet switch with dual 100Base-FX uplinks $ 8,950 12-port Ethernet switch with dual 100Base-TX uplinks $ 4,950 12-port Ethernet switch with dual 100Base-FX uplinks $ 6,950 Standard Microsystem Corp. (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 : SMSC SMSC Short Message Service Center SMSC Standard Microsystems Corporation (New York) SMSC Spiritual Moral Social Cultural (education) SMSC Stephenville Medical and Surgical Clinic ) provides a broad range of networking solutions for scaling, managing and connecting local area networks. SMC has annual sales of nearly $400 million and an installed base of over 10 million nodes. SMC's products include LAN Switches, hubs, LAN adapters, and network management software. SMC is based in Hauppauge, and has locations in California, Massachusetts, Australia, Asia, Canada, Europe, Japan and Latin America. Contact SMC by calling 1-800-SMC-4-YOU in the U.S. and Canada, or 516/435-6000 elsewhere, or visit SMC's World Wide Web Home Page at http://www.smc.com/ -0- SMC and Standard Microsystems are registered trademarks. 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