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TWO RECENT product introductions by Ascend Communications Corp. offer users more flexibility in configuration and deployment of the company's remote-access products.
Last week Ascend updated its Max product family with three WAN access switches. The new Max central office switches allow companies to link a broad range of different connections into a LAN.
The updated Max 2000, 4002, and 4004 switches can support as many as 96 simultaneous sessions using Ascend's Hybrid Access capability, which allows analog modem, ISDN, and frame-relay traffic to run over the same high-speed trunk line.
"Ascend has built the Max-killer," said Michael Howard, president of Infonetics Research Inc., in San Jose, Calif Other vendors were rumored to be preparing products that would...