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High-bandwidth technology and industry alliances dominated the NetWorld +Interop trade show held in Las Vegas this month. More than 65,000 attendees previewed scores of new wares and partnerships.
Vendors that launched new partnerships included Intel Corp. and SynOptics Communications Inc.; Novell Inc. and AT&T Co. and Xerox Corp.; Ungermann-Bass Inc. and Newbridge Networks Inc.; and Fore Systems Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc.
HARDWARE
On the hardware front, several vendors showcased new products based on 100-Mbit-per-second or Fast Ethernet switched technology.
Plaintree Systems, Wellesley, Mass., unveiled the WaveSwitch 100 Ethernet switch, available now. The switch connects multiple Ethernet network segments using Plaintree bridging technology.
WaveSwitch also supports multiple 100-Mbps connections to file servers or high-speed backbones. The product is priced at $3,890 for an FDDI port and $1,825 for a WaveBus fast Ethernet port.
Cogent Data Technologies Inc., Friday Harbor, Wash., rolled out plans to develop a four-port Ethernet LAN adapter using PCI local-bus architecture.
The newest addition to Cogent's Predictive Pipelining eMaster+ adapter, EM964 PCI Quartet allows a server to support four network segments with a single adapter, and more than four segments with multiple four-port adapters in different PCI slots.
The new card further supports the full 132-Mbps PCI bus data-transfer rate and Full Duplex Ethernet on each port. The adapters are priced at $798.
Emulex Corp., Costa Mesa, Calif., introduced a new external printer server product, NETQue Token Ring, for token-ring networks. The new product complements versions for...