Hi David, Article..Craig Barrett outlines Intel's networking strategy...
By James Niccolai
InfoWorld Electric
Posted at 12:12 PM PT, Feb 24, 1998
SAN FRANCISCO -- Intel boosted its networking offerings Tuesday with a handful of new product announcements that reflect the segmented-market approach the company detailed two weeks ago for its processor business.
At the company's networking symposium here this morning, Craig Barrett, Intel's president and chief operating officer, will discuss the company's strategy to target the networking market with products specialized for home, small business, branch office, and campus environments.
Predicting that the number of PCs in the world will surpass one billion in the next decade, Barrett will tout Intel's vision of a "balanced computing environment" in which the client, server, network, and management elements operate in unison to increase the performance and capabilities of a network.
"As we move toward a billion connected PCs, Intel will deliver networking solutions for balanced computing that address the unique needs of each segment," Barrett said in prepared remarks.
Among the products to be announced Tuesday are the company's first stackable Layer 3 switches for the campus market -- the Express 550T and 550F Routing switches. The switches are compatible with Intel's Express 510T switch for workgroups, and when stacked, provide similar speed and capacity to traditional chassis switching and routing solutions at less cost, Intel said.
The Express 510T and 550F are due to ship in March, priced at $3,195, or $399 per port, and $7,995, or $999 per port, Intel said.
The company also broadened its offerings for branch office networks with the $695 Express 130T Standalone Hub, which is due later this month, and the Express 8100 Router, due to ship in March for $699, Intel said.
The products boast new, optional tunneling and encryption software, and enable Intel to offer the first end-to-end product package for linking remote sites over a wide area network at 10/100Mbps, Intel said. A 10/100Mbps network is able to support a range of bandwidths depending on the type of connection being used to access the network, including dial-up or Ethernet.
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