U.S. Army Qualifies Xylan Switches for Use in Networks Worldwide
Business Editors & High-Tech Writers
CALABASAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 10, 1998--Xylan Corp.
(Nasdaq:XYLN) Tuesday announced that the U.S. Army has qualified Xylan
LAN and ATM networking equipment for use in Army facilities worldwide.
Xylan successfully completed comprehensive LAN-to-ATM switching
performance and interoperability tests conducted by the Army, which
expands the company's eligibility to compete for the Army's LAN and
ATM networking contracts.
The Army tests showed that the OmniSwitch provides a powerful and
complete system for both LAN edge and ATM backbone switching
requirements, and that it can interoperate with ATM switches and
routers from other manufacturers.
"With its successful completion of the Army's tests, the
OmniSwitch demonstrates world-class switching performance and
interoperability," said Brett Michaels, Xylan director of federal
sales. "This further demonstrates Xylan's industry leadership in the
integration of LANs and ATM for end-to-end networks."
U.S. Army Testing
In testing conducted by the Army's Technology Integration Center
(TIC) at Ft. Huachuca, Ariz., the OmniSwitch passed a series of
performance, network reliability, network stability and network
recovery tests. The tests simulated the full-speed data traffic
generated by 3,000 simulated users spread over 32 workstations, and
focused on ATM Forum standards for LAN Emulation and PNNI.
Simulated traffic included FTP, TELNET, Web surfing, e-mail and
MPEG-1 video streaming. Traffic mixes were varied with different
distributions and loading to fully test the Xylan products.
These tests are a very important step toward the Army's goal of
building a servicewide ATM network that offers each facility, along
with the Army's Project Manager for Installation of Networks, the
ability to select the equipment best suited for its application. Xylan
has demonstrated that it can be a reliable vendor in this
infrastructure.
The Army Technology Integration Center will be testing Xylan's
layer-three switching and Gigabit Ethernet products in the near
future. In the ATM test, the combination of Xylan's high-performance
10/100 modules and ATM buffering helped the OmniSwitch to excel at
handling the high rates of incoming data. As a result, Xylan is now an
approved vendor for the Army's Common User Interface Transport Network
(CUITN) project. The company can also sell its products to any Army
base that needs networking equipment.
About Xylan
Xylan is one of the leading switching companies in the world; its
products combine LAN switching, ATM switching, layer-three switching
and wide area switching over a wide range of interfaces and media.
Xylan's switches are distinguished by advanced architectures and chip
designs and by any-to-any switching.
The same XOS software powers a full range of Xylan switches, from
small workgroup Ethernet switches to large multilayer backbone
switches. As a result, a Xylan network is able to deliver cohesive
services, in both end user and service provider networks.
Xylan's Switched Network Services initiative takes switching to
the next step: a comprehensive set of services, including DHCP,
network address translation, LDAP, RADIUS, DNS, multicast switching
and routing, RSVP, broadcast management and policy-based
configuration. Many of these services are already shipping. More
information about Xylan and its products is available at
www.xylan.com.
Note to Editors: Xylan and OmniSwitch are trademarks of Xylan
Corp. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
This news release may contain forward-looking statements that
involve risks and uncertainties. These statements may differ
materially from actual future events or results. Readers are referred
to the documents filed by Xylan with the SEC, including the company's
most recent report on Forms 10-K and 10-Q that identify important
risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from those
contained in the forward-looking statements.
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CONTACT: Xylan Corp., Calabasas
David Rodewald, 818/878-4976
818/880-3505 (fax)
drodewald@xylan.com
Gina Rollo, 818/878-4835
gina.rollo@xylan.com
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After the Navy qualified the Xylan products new contracts were announced. Perhaps we will see the same from the Army.
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