Wednesday October 21, 11:04 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: Ancor Communications, Inc.
Ancor Communications Debuts Eight-Port Fibre
Channel Switch for Windows NT Market at Networld + Interop
Working SAN in Booth Features Software from VERITAS
ATLANTA, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Ancor Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: ANCR - news) unveils its new eight-port Fibre
Channel switch today to demonstrate a high- performance storage area network (SAN) aimed squarely at the booming NT
market. The demonstration will take place at Networld + Interop in both the Ancor and VERITAS Software Corporation
(Nasdaq: VRTS - news) exhibits and at the VERITAS User's Group meeting later this month.
Ancor, a leading Fibre Channel switch provider, and VERITAS Software, the leading provider of end-to-end storage
management software solutions, will demonstrate the capability to switch storage data at gigabit speeds directly between
Compaq servers and ATL tape drives. This capability speeds data backup by eliminating the need to move data through the
server, across the local area network (LAN) and back through the server to get to the tape.
According to David Spenhoff, VERITAS vice president of marketing, ''Ancor's low-cost GigWorks MKII-8 and VERITAS
NT NetBackup Software delivers a high- performing, easy-to-manage SAN at an affordable price. This solution allows IP
servers and switches to be separated from competing storage traffic, returning bandwidth to the LAN.''
Carla Kennedy, Ancor vice president of marketing, believes this solution is where the promise of Fibre Channel technology
finally pays off. ''With the GigWorks MKII-8, announced last week, we're certain we offer the right Fibre Channel hardware
at the right price for the NT market, but as the computing world knows, it's not a solution without the right software. VERITAS
provides the missing piece to the SAN solution.''
About Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel is an ANSI-standard, high-speed, low-latency data communications technology that provides
gigabit-per-second transmission rates in storage/server environments and high-performance networks. Ancor GigWorks(TM)
products combine the speed and simplicity of channels with the flexibility of networks to solve bandwidth problems caused by
the transfer of large data files among storage, server and client nodes in high-performance compute environments. Ancor Fibre
Channel products provide optimal speed and throughput for data-intensive applications such as shared storage, CAD/CAM,
visualization, data mining and file backup.
About Ancor Communications
Ancor Communications, Inc. provides GigWorks(TM) high-performance storage and data-intensive network solutions based
on Fibre Channel technology. The company was the first to deliver a Fibre Channel switch, and the first to top the one-gigabit
performance level. Ancor is a member of the Fibre Channel Association, the Storage Network Industry Association, the ANSI
Standards Committee and the University of New Hampshire Fibre Channel Consortium to promote the advancement of Fibre
Channel standards and interoperability. Information on Ancor is available on the World Wide Web at ancor.com.
For more information about Fibre Channel technology and Ancor Fibre Channel solutions, call 800-342-7379 or access
World Wide Web site ancor.com. Media, contact Mary Miller, Ancor, at 612-932-4071 or marym@ancor.com
or Aaron Pearson, Shandwick, at 612-832-5000 or apearson@shandwick.com.
Forward-looking statements as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 are qualified by the risk factors
outlined in the documents Ancor Communications, Inc. files with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
