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With the recent acquisition of Western Digital Corp., Standard Microsystems Corp. (SMC) virtually overnight has become one of the industry's largest suppliers of local-area network interfaces.
According to International Data Corp., a market research firm in Framingham, Mass., the acquisition puts SMC right behind market leader IBM in terms of the total number of personal computer network interface cards shipped worldwide.
But SMC is not stopping there. According to Jeff Carlin, SMC's vice-president of marketing, the company is planning to release a new line of token-ring adapter cards at NetWorld 92 Boston and will expand its existing hub products to mirror the new token-ring push. Until now, SMC has focused on the Ethernet and Arcnet markets.
Carlin recently spoke with Network World Senior Editor Caryn Gillooly about the company's short-and long-term plans. SMC, a publicly held company in Hauppauge, N.Y., has two divisions: the smaller systems division and the components division, which makes semiconductors.
WHAT IS THE CURRENT STATUS OF THE WESTERN DIGITAL ACQUISITION?
At this point, we've pretty much accomplished the acquisition of Western Digital's LAN business. The business is running about 30% to 40% larger then we had anticipated. We're not really sure why, but we're very pleased.
In addition, the order rate is up from when we initially purchased the business. Our reorganizations are complete, and we're looking forward to a very good year.
We expect to be a $200 million division next year, if not larger. And we consider ourselves one of the major companies in the LAN connectivity market. Besides adapter cards,...