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To: J Fieb who wrote (25256)	12/22/1999 11:27:00 PM
From: Kerry Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

Re-hashed Fibre Alliance news that might have been overlooked before: INRANGE Technologies Joins FibreAlliance Company Will Support the FibreAlliance's SAN-Management Technology With Its New FC/9000 Enterprise-Class Fibre Channel Switch MOUNT LAUREL, NJ, October 29, 1999 - INRANGE Technologies, a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure technologies for storage, data, and telephony networks, announced today that it has joined the FibreAlliance - an EMC©-sponsored association of vendors driving open software standards for managing Storage Area Networks (SANs). INRANGE is also a member of the Fibre Channel Association and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). "We are extremely pleased to be in a position to help shape the development of emerging standards for SAN Management and to incorporate the technologies borne from the cooperative effort of the 27-member FibreAlliance," stated Nick Hannon, INRANGE Business Area Director for Storage Networking. "INRANGE is supporting the FibreAlliance's recently adopted Management Information Base (MIB) with our new 64-port FC/9000 Fibre Channel Switch, the industry's first enterprise-class SAN Switch. We will continue to design storage solutions that address the IT manager's requirement for interoperability across mixed environments by leveraging alliances such as these." Don Swatik, EMC's Vice President of Product Management, said, "Today, in announcing both its membership in the FibreAlliance and product compliance with the open MIB, INRANGE clearly is demonstrating to its customers its commitment to heterogeneous SAN interoperability. As more and more customer-focused companies such as INRANGE join the FibreAlliance, the SAN industry moves one step closer to a goal shared by all open SAN vendors - providing customers with SAN management solutions based on open industry standards." The FC/9000-64 Switch is a cornerstone of INRANGE's leading-edge storage/networking architecture that provides IT professionals with an infrastructure for building large-scale SANs across extended distances. INRANGE is exhibiting its FC/9000-64 Switch at the Fibre Channel Technologies Conference in San Jose, California, November 3-4, 1999. Besides its new role within the FibreAlliance, INRANGE maintains a partnership with EMC to provide channel management solutions for extending EMC's Symmetrix Remote Data Facility©(SRDF) dual copy storage technology, typically for business continuance and disaster recovery applications. INRANGE's 9801 Storage Networking System has been qualified by EMC to provide wide area connections for SRDF over ATM OC-3. INRANGE Technologies is a leading supplier of enterprise network infrastructure technologies to the Fortune 500 market, with an eye toward the future of network convergence. Leveraging intellectual capital from across today's three strategic network axes, the company's family of solutions spans Storage Networking, Datacomm Networking, and Telephony Networking, bringing true enterprise-class availability, scalability, and management capabilities to the most demanding networking applications. INRANGE is a proud member of the SPX Corporation family of high-value companies, with sales and service locations in 70 countries. SPX Corporation is a global provider of industrial products and services, technical products and systems, service solutions and vehicle components. The Internet address for SPX Corporation's home page is www.spx.com. The FibreAlliance was formed to develop standards and processes to commonly manage interconnect devices in a Fibre Channel SAN. Its primary goal is to help customers effectively and rapidly implement Fibre Channel-based storage networks, allowing customers to choose interconnect devices freely without concern for management capabilities across a heterogeneous environment. For editorial information, call (856) 439-3079 or send e-mail to: Lou.martelli@inrange.com