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Red Hat Software Signs Strategic Partnership Agreement With Ariel Corp.; Ariel To Provide Linux-Based PCI Remote Access Solutions - For Red Hat's ISP and Enterprise Customers
( Business Wire ) ; 04-27-1999
( BW)(NJ-ARIEL/RED-HOT)(ADSP) Red Hat Software Signs Strategic Partnership Agreement With Ariel Corp.; Ariel To Provide Linux-Based PCI Remote Access Solutions For Red Hat's ISP and Enterprise Customers Business Editors Spring ISPCON 99
BALTIMORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 1999--Ariel Corp. (Nasdaq:ADSP), a leading supplier of open systems remote access solutions for ISPs and the enterprise, today announced that it has signed a strategic partnership with Red Hat Software, the leading developer and support provider for the Linux operating system. The new relationship will give Red Hat's Linux customers easy access to Ariel's high-density PCI-based remote access solutions, while enabling Red Hat to enhance its presence in the ISP and enterprise server markets.
Ariel and Red Hat will participate in a number of joint marketing activities aimed at promoting Red Hat Linux and Ariel's high-density remote access products as the preferred platform for building ISP and enterprise points of presence. Among other things, Red Hat will distribute drivers for Ariel's remote access cards on its Linux Application CD, participate with Ariel in a joint direct mail campaign, and host Ariel white papers and other marketing materials on its new Linux portal. The two companies will also engage in cooperative marketing efforts that specifically target ISPs, such as co-operative exhibits at ISPCON, COMDEX, and Linux Expo. "Red Hat Linux is a key element of our remote access strategy, including our new PowerPOP? initiative for ISPs," said Dennis Schneider, vice president of marketing at Ariel. "Linux was the fastest growing server operating environment in 1998, accounting for 17% of the market. And Red Hat is the leading builder of the Linux operating system, with solid penetration in both the ISP and enterprise markets. We're excited to be working with the industry leader, and look forward to providing Red Hat's customers with easy-to-integrate, high-density remote access solutions." "We're pleased to have Ariel on board with Red Hat Linux and look forward to working with Ariel to offer high-density remote access to our customers," added Paul McNamara, vice president of business development at Red Hat software. "Ariel's PCI-based remote access products and PowerPOP architecture are ideal for building intelligent Linux-based points of presence that are affordable, scaleable and provide high availability."
Ariel's PCI-based RS2000 remote access card makes it easy for Linux integrators to add high-density V.34, 56K, and ISDN remote access to their Linux systems at a fraction of the cost of dedicated remote access concentrators. With Ariel's add-in cards, fast-growing ISPs can quickly deploy intelligent Linux-based PowerPOP points of presence that not only reduce remote access costs, but enhance network flexibility and efficiency. Linux systems equipped with Ariel's remote access cards are also ideal for building scaleable, flexible, high-availability remote access systems for use in the enterprise and telco applications.
Ariel's RS2000 gives Linux systems the physical connections needed for remote dial-in, LAN dial-out, and Internet back-haul. Combining dual T1/PRI interfaces with 24 V.90 modems on a single PCI plug-in card, the RS2000 can accommodate up to 47 remote access sessions originating from any combination of digital V.90-compatible 56-kbps, analog 33.6-kbps, or 64-kbps basic rate ISDN customer premises equipment. One PRI interface, together with the card's 24 modems, provides 24 V.34, 56K, or BRI sessions. The second T1/PRI interface can be used to support an additional 23 BRI sessions, or to provide back-haul to the Internet, the PSTN, or a private network. According to market research firm International Data Corp. (IDC), Linux commercial shipments will grow faster than the total shipments of all other client or server operating systems through 2003. IDC research also states that Linux was the fastest-growing server operating environment in 1998, growing more than 212% in that year alone and capturing more than 17% of all server operating system shipments.
More on Red Hat Software
Founded in 1994, Red Hat Software is based in Research Triangle Park, N.C., where it is a leader in the development of open source operating software solutions. Red Hat Development builds the most accessible and advanced operating systems available anywhere with technical innovations such as RPM and the disk druid installation tool. Red Hat Linux is available for Intel, Compaq Alpha, and Sun SPARC platforms.
Red Hat Linux was named InfoWorld's Product of the Year for three years in a row, was given a Productivity accolade in Software Development's "Jolt" Awards, was named an Environment/Desktop finalist in the Ziff-Davis European Excellence Awards, won the editor's choice awards from both the Linux Journal and Australian Personal Computing magazines, and won the "Just Plain Cool" award from Australian Personal Computing magazine. At the March LinuxWorld Expo, more than 8,000 members of the Linux community voted Red Hat a "LinuxWorld Favorite."
More on Ariel
Ariel Corp. is a leading provider of high-density remote access plug-in cards for applications such as Internet access, corporate Intranet/Extranet access, on-line services, telecommuting, transaction processing, and unified messaging. Ariel's remote access products make it easy for OEMs and system integrators targeting ISPs, corporate enterprises and other service providers to add high-density remote access to open systems platforms running a variety of popular operating systems, including Windows NT and Linux.
Ariel's high-density remote access cards provide V.34, V.90-compatible 56K, and basic rate ISDN remote dial-in, LAN dial-out, and Internet back-haul. Available in ISA, PCI and CompactPCI formats, the cards connect to T1, E1, ISDN, and POTS lines. Ariel's remote access products run Windows NT and Linux out of the box. An SDK is available for OEMs who want to use Ariel's remote access products with other operating systems.
For more information on Ariel products, please contact Ariel Corp. at 2540 Route 130, Cranbury, N.J. 08512. Phone 609/860-2900. Fax 609/860-1155. Email: info@ariel.com. World Wide Web: www.ariel.com.
PowerPOP, RS2000, and Ariel are trademarks of Ariel Corp. LINUX is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. RED HAT is a registered trademark of Red Hat Software Inc.
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