XLNT Ships First Millennium 4000; Company Wins the Race To Deliver Gigabit Ethernet to Today's Backbones.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 1997-- TBS Network Intelligence Takes Delivery of Millennium 4000 Gigabit Ethernet Switches Today, XLNT XLNT Excellent became the first company in the hotly contested 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. market to deliver on the promise of shipping the first Gigabit Ethernet Buffered Distributor/FDDI Switch. On Friday, Sept. 5, TBS Network Intelligence Inc. of New Jersey took delivery of the company's first switch off the production line. "Our goal in purchasing the Millennium 4000 is to be one of the first VARs to sell this scalable solution to our customers," said Ken Bennett Ken Bennett (born 1959) is a Republican politician and businessman who served as president of the Arizona Senate. Bennett was born in Tucson into a family that were members of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon). , TBS Network Intelligence president. "We believe that the Gigabit Ethernet market is just beginning to heat up and will only expand with the conclusion of the standards. "XLNT's real world solution provides our customers with the first seamless solution to migrating their current 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. backbones. The uniqueness and 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. of the Millennium 4000 makes it the ideal solution for data center applications." XLNT's networking solutions shipping this quarter include the first in a family of Gigabit Ethernet products, the Millennium 4000. Available with four I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output slots, the components available now include the four- or eight-port full duplex (Computers) arranged so that the information may be transmitted in both directions simultaneously; - of communications channels between computers; contrasted with A full suite of network management tools are available supporting Windows NT, Windows 3.5, Windows 95 and Sun Solaris. "We are responding to the major issue in campus networking today," said Bill Atkinson, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of XLNT. "Backbone 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. on existing FDDI installations is stifling network expansion and frustrating IS managers' effort to move enterprise servers to the backbone through and through; thoroughly; entirely. - Lord Lytton. See also: Backbone . By implementing the switching capability found in the Millennium 4000, we can alleviate this problem." Ron Clarke, vice president of sales and marketing for XLNT, added: "We believe that the Millennium 4000 is the most cost-effective solution integrating 10/100 and Gigabit Ethernet with FDDI in a fault-tolerant, resilient and scalable switch. The Millennium 4000 will establish a new standard of true excellence in the 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. industry." About the Product The Millennium 4000 product line guarantees a high level of network availability for support of mission-critical applications by delivering the most fault-tolerant solution in the industry. The architecture addresses fault tolerance at the system port and network levels through the use of redundancy, system design and network signaling. System-level fault tolerance features include N+1 load sharing power supplies, redundant fans and fault-tolerant control processor modules. In the event of failure, the Millennium product ensures continuous operation by supporting hot-swapping of the chassis modules and power supplies, as well as the soft download of system software. The Millennium product line supports "Dual-Homing" and the Gigabit Ethernet equivalent of "Dual-Homing" utilizing redundant links and cross-module redundancy to enable instantaneous activation of a standby link bused upon any active port or link failure. Dual-homing maintains the integrity of applications running over the backbone and dramatically improves activation times for the backup link over the typical 20 to 40 seconds that the Spanning-Tree Protocol would normally require to activate a backup link. And because each switched FDDI port supports two connections (either A, B or M/M M/M Multi-Media M/M Mr. and Mrs. M/M Male/Male M/M Man/Machine ) that can be used to connect active and standby switched FDDI links, the Millennium product is able to offer a high level of reliability without sacrificing the cost of a second switched FDDI port. About XLNT XLNT is dedicated to making networks run faster and more robust than ever before. In fact, since 1989, it has staked its reputation on building quality products for the major networking vendors. Now it has built one with its name on it -- Millennium 4000, the solution for migrating to Gigabit Ethernet and beyond. XLNT is a steering committee member of the Gigabit Ethernet Alliance and an active member in the 802.3z committee. The company remains privately held with headquarters in San Diego. -0- See XLNT at www.xlnt.com . CONTACT: XLNT, San Diego Barbara Hurst, 619/487-9320 or The Townsend Agency, San Diego Susan Caroppo, 619/457-4888 |
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