NSIL up 15%. Spoke to Bill Perkins (NSIL PR's) and only news is this. Dated 10/25, but I don't remember seeing it. Pure speculation on other boards. No way to verify rumors so will not post them. Jack "Watching it run" Hartmann
10/25/99 - NET+Imaging Product Family Lets Imaging Companies Move with Confidence Towards Designing Next Generation Printing and MFPs
WALTHAM, Mass., Oct 25, 1999 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
NETsilicon Adds Software-Only Networking Solution:
Broadens Choices for Printer, Copier and MFP Manufacturers
NETsilicon, Inc., formerly known as DPI, the leader in embedded networking, today announced a software-only networking solution that empowers printer, digital copier, fax, and scanner companies with more connectivity choices than ever before. NET+Software(TM) is the newest member of the company's NET+Imaging(TM) product family, the leading connectivity solution for network printing. NET+Software moves the complete printing and management capabilities of a network interface card into a controller's CPU. Because it is a single processor solution and shares the controller's processor for networking, NET+Software reduces component and footprint requirements. It also includes a suite of software, such as imaging applications, interfaces, services, protocols and drivers, necessary to network-enable imaging devices.
As imaging manufacturers embrace the trend towards converging their products into MFPs, they require added networking functionality such as Internet access, browser-based management, file transfer, and network scanning as well as increased performance. NETsilicon now offers these vital networking technologies and capabilities across its entire NET+Imaging product family.
NET+Imaging now boasts three offerings: the new NET+Software; the NET+NCC(TM) connectivity chip; and the NET+NIC(TM) interface card. Manufacturers can balance their need to increase functionality and performance with competing constraints such as connect rate, product price sensitivity, and schedule and development risks. Furthermore, if market forces dictate changes midstream, NET+Imaging's common development platform enables engineers to confidently and swiftly switch to an alternate connectivity solution.
"Expanded networking choices are critical to the move to MFPs because they allow our customers to increase market penetration and gain competitive advantage over their competition," said Neil Peterson, NETsilicon's vice president of Imaging. "NETsilicon has built its reputation on being at the forefront of technology used to network-enable demanding products like MFPs. NET+Software completes the NET+Imaging product family, offering the most comprehensive choice for manufacturers to confidently build their next generation of imaging peripherals using best-of-breed networking technology that fits specific or unique project requirements - from inkjets to the next wave of high-end MFPs and color laser printers."
For each specific product, manufacturers must select the networking solution that helps them best compete in this very dynamic market. The NET+Imaging product family offers manufacturers the choices they need to make the best embedded networking decisions for each of their products - all from one vendor.
"With NET+Imaging, NETsilicon provides customers and partners with the broadest range of imaging solutions and services to help them effectively manage the balance between continual cost reduction efforts and the incorporation of market-driven performance and functionality enhancements," said Hiro Kataoka, director of Japan operations for NETsilicon. "NET+Imaging's common development platform also provides manufacturers with the flexibility to switch from the NIC to chip to software-only connectivity solutions."
More about NET+Software
Companies can design-in NET+Software directly onto the controller's processor running on Wind River Systems' VxWorks(R) real-time operating system to add complete network printing and management capabilities. Like the embedded processor or NIC option, the software-only version contains NETsilicon's NET+Imaging Architecture, which provides flexible functionality and development reliability for printer, fax, scanner and MFP applications. The architecture includes Web-based management, printing and file transfer services. NET+Software is available immediately for specific customer projects.
More about NET+Imaging
When cost, performance or time-to-market are factors in choosing an embedded networking solution, NET+Imaging from NETsilicon is the choice. For an in-depth understanding of which NET+Imaging connectivity solution best fits each device's implementation and dependencies, please request the abstract, entitled Network Printing Alternatives located at the NETsilicon Web site at netsilicon.com.
About NETsilicon
NETsilicon, Inc. develops and markets semiconductor devices and software solutions designed to meet the networking requirements of embedded systems. The company's products are incorporated into the design of embedded systems to provide them with the ability to communicate over standards-based local area networks, wide-area networks and the Internet, enabling the development of new embedded systems applications. The company believes that it offers the first comprehensive solution that, in conjunction with the physical interface and memory, encompasses all of the hardware and software necessary to network enable embedded systems. The company's technology is designed to have broad applicability and therefore may add network functionality to many embedded systems.
For additional company, product or financial information, visit the NETsilicon Web site, www.netsilicon.com, or call toll free 800-243-2333. For calls originating outside the United States, call 781-647-1234.
NET+Imaging, NET+Software, NET+NIC and NET+NCC are trademarks of NETsilicon, Inc. VxWorks is a registered trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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