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LAS VEGAS Cabletron Systems Inc. will join forces with Nashoba Networks Inc. to address the switching needs of its installed base of token-ring users.
Last week at NetWorld+ Interop here, Cabletron displayed the TSX-1620, an eight-port token-ring switch that will be the first deliverable product in Cabletron's token-ring switching strategy, which will be announced later this month.
The switch is a private-label version of Nashoba's Concord switch, a stackable token-ring packet switch the company rolled out last month.
"This is an entry-level switch," said Mike Skubisz, director of product marketing for Cabletron, Rochester, N.H. Skubisz added that Nashoba's technology makes a good fit with Cabletron's i960-based architecture for integration in both the company's MMAC hub and the MMAC-Plus switching system.
One Cabletron user said the company's ability to integrate the token-ring switch into the MMAC hub is very attractive. Pat Limpach, network manager at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, has a small number of token-ring sites...