Evidence of CS's "backward compatibility" as a competitive advantage (supposedly Cisco's products are designed to be completely replaced every 18 months)--
biz.yahoo.com
Tuesday September 29, 8:07 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
Cabletron Announces the 5Th Year
Anniversary of the MultiSwitch 900 Chassis
Achieves Impressive Milestone of Over 42,000 Chassis
Sold Worldwide
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 29, 1998-- Reaffirming its support of the critical needs of
multitechnology networks, Cabletron Systems (NYSE:CS - news) today marked the fifth anniversary of the MultiSwitch
900 and its attainment of its 42,000 chassis milestone worldwide.
For more than five years, the eight-slot MultiSwitch 900 chassis has been the cornerstone of networks in various vertical
markets such as banking/finance, government, education, and healthcare and has continually provided next- generation
networking to customers worldwide.
''The MultiSwitch 900 has been a steadfast, reliable product to thousands of network managers worldwide,'' said Craig
Benson, CEO of Cabletron Systems. ''This product and next-generation switching and routing modules are proof points
of Cabletron's strength - investment protection and customer satisfaction. This product set is so important to our installed
base that we will continue to support it until the year 2007.''
''The MultiSwitch 900 platform is indeed an incredible platform,'' said Michael Howard, president of Infonetics. ''It has
provided customers the flexibility in building their network infrastructure and continues to offer true investment
protection. We're pleased to see that Cabletron is continuing the development of new modules and look forward to new
technologies such as Gigabit Ethernet for the platform.''
With its 5.6 Gb/s distributed switching fabric, the MultiSwitch 900 system delivers unmatched multilayer switching
performance and supports a full complement of packet and cell-based technologies. Its software-definable,
multitechnology backplane makes it easy to reconfigure your network, add a new LAN technology, or create virtual LANs
with simple software commands.
Today, customers can choose from more than 50 currently shipping modules to populate their MultiSwitch 900 chassis. In
addition to the MultiSwitch 900 modules, the chassis supports all MultiSwitch 600 and DEChub 90 modules. Each of
these modules installs in seconds and can be hot-swapped, maximizing uptime and easily accommodating changing
network configurations. |
