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Bay Networks Announces New Enterprise Features for BayStack Ethernet Switches
BusinessWire, Wednesday, March 11, 1998 at 08:53
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 11, 1998--
Support for Port-Based VLANs, Port Mirroring, Web-Based
Management, and Unlimited MAC Addressing, Amongst List of New
Enhanced Features
Bay Networks(TM), Inc. (NYSE:BAY) today announced the addition of
new enhanced features to its BayStack 303 and 304 Ethernet switches,
the lowest price per port, enterprise-class workgroup switches
available in the market.
New features include capabilities such as support for port-based
VLANs, port mirroring, web-based management, and unlimited MAC
addressing. Comprehensive network management support for these
switches is provided through full integration with Bay Networks'
Optivity(R) Network Management platform.
These enhanced switch features give LAN managers network
configuration flexibility, broad network management and diagnostic
tools to help optimize growing networks.
The BayStack 303 and 304 Ethernet switches contributed greatly to
Bay Networks' unprecedented growth in the workgroup Ethernet switching
market, according to the Dell'Oro Group's Q4 1997 market data. These
reports show that Bay Networks grew faster than the market, with
revenues increasing by 30 percent and ports increasing by 56 percent
from Q3 to Q4 of 1997.
"With the addition of these new features to the BayStack 303 and
304 Ethernet switches, Bay Networks is offering customers enhanced
enterprise-class capabilities at no extra cost," said Paul Woodruff,
director of product management, Workgroup Switches, at Bay Networks.
"With this announcement, Bay Networks continues to reinforce its
commitment to the workgroup Ethernet switching market and customers
alike."
New features for the BayStack 303, 304 Ethernet Switches include:
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-- Web-based management
-- Password protection for console, Telnet, and web-based interfaces
with a single, changeable password
-- Support for Expanded View, Omniview, and Multisegment
Autotopology features in Optivity
-- Destination address filtering to prevent communication to
specific station (up to 8 destination addresses)
-- MAC table look-up for learned addresses
-- Asymmetric MAC addressing (new uplink address learning mode on
10/100 port); allows for unlimited MAC addressing for
uplink/backbone ports
-- Support for 8 port-based VLANs
-- Port mirroring (conversation steering) capability from any switch
port to facilitate network trouble shooting and traffic
monitoring
Bay Networks also recently dropped prices on its BayStack 303 and
304 Ethernet switches. The new prices, effective as of Jan. 21, 1998,
are as follows:
-- BayStack 303 Ethernet switch with 24 10BASE-T ports and 1
100BASE-TX port, now priced at U.S. $1,625, or U.S. $65 per port
-- BayStack 304 Ethernet switch with 12 10BASE-T ports and 1
100BASE-TX port, now priced at U.S. $1,295, or U.S. $99 per port
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The BayStack 303 and 304 Ethernet switches are now shipping with
the new software 2.0 agent. In addition, a software upgrade is
available to registered BayStack 303 and 304 Ethernet switch customers
for free and immediate download from the Bay Networks web site at:
support.baynetworks.com.
"We chose Bay Networks as our vendor of choice because of
superior products offered at affordable price points," said Zeke
Crater, network manager at Queens Medical Center, a healthcare
facility associated with the Queens Health Systems, Hawaii's largest
hospital network.
"We needed reliable, scalable equipment in a secure environment
that was backed by extensive service and support. Bay Networks and the
BayStack 303 Ethernet switch was the perfect match for our network
requirements."
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Victor |
