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Technology Stocks : Vixel (vixl), a fibre channel company! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: No_underscores who wrote (362)	5/2/2000 2:26:00 PM
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Looks like this is part of cutting edge optical networks vixel.com Lucent Technologies to use Technology from Vixel to Drive New Storage Applications Bothell, WA, May 2, 2000 - Vixel Corporation (Nasdaq: VIXL) today announced that Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) will integrate Vixel's Fibre Channel switching technology into its OptiStar? product line. Vixel's technology will help Lucent develop solutions that interconnect Storage Area Networks (SANs) over high performance, IP-based Wide Area Networks (WANs). Enterprises and service providers (Internet, application and storage) require ultra high-speed interfaces to efficiently transport the information stored in today's server farms. Connecting islands of SANs over IP-based WANs increases the flexibility and capabilities of the storage infrastructure to meet the needs of today's e-commerce applications. With a high-speed SAN-to-SAN connection, enterprises will benefit from new types of SAN applications, such as disaster recovery, remote backup, dynamic data replication, as well as enterprise server and storage consolidation. "By integrating Vixel's Fibre Channel switching technology directly into our WAN access solutions, Lucent can help eliminate the bandwidth bottleneck created by traditional routed architectures, and extend the SAN beyond the campus and into the high-speed optical WAN network," said Tim Sullivan, vice president & general manager of Lucent's Optical Area Networking group. "As SANs increase in both size and complexity, connecting SANs over IP-based WANs is the next evolution of the storage infrastructure," said Jim McCluney, president and CEO, Vixel Corporation. "Our work with Lucent will enable enterprises to deploy SANs that are highly available and scalable and will accelerate the delivery of innovative storage solutions to meet the intense storage requirements of today's service providers." Except for historical information contained herein, this news release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause such a difference include risks affecting Vixel's ability to meet its quality and performance standards, development of the storage area network, or SAN market, the competitiveness and performance of Vixel's products in the rapidly changing SAN market and the ability of Vixel to meet evolving product standards required by customers and others involved in the distribution channel for SAN products. lucent-optical.com Optical Area Networks Backbone network providers offer massive bandwidth capacity through implementation of Lucent Technologies? DWDM, SONET and other optical technologies. Through its Optical Area Networks initiative, Lucent Technologies is delivering products that bring optical networking to the enterprise and server. Optical Area Networks Division Lucent Technologies? Optical Area Networks (OAN) Division is a part of the Optical Networking Group. Established as an entrepreneurial organization in Richardson, Texas, and headed by industry veteran Tim Sullivan, OAN is working with enterprises and service providers to overcome the server and campus networking bottlenecks that prevent full utilization of the full speed optical backbone network. With the addition of Optical Area Networking products, Lucent Technologies' Optical Networking Group can now offer end to end optical solutions all the way to the server. In October, Lucent announced the OptiStar? product line, a comprehensive portfolio of Optical Area Networking products. OptiStar includes both optical (OC-48/STM-16 and OC-12/STM-4) and Gigabit Ethernet Network Adapter cards, Fibre Channel RAID Storage Adapters, software modules to accelerate delivery of services for data replication and restoral and streaming media services, and a high speed edge switch. All of these OptiStar products (except the storage adapters) are based on IP, bringing this networking standard to a new, higher level. At up to 2.5 gigabits per second full duplex (total throughput of nearly 5 gigabits per second), OptiStar products represent the world?s fastest network adapters. Optical Area Networking allows enterprises to extend LAN-speed networking past the geographic boundaries of the campus into the extended wide area network (WAN). It allows service providers to eliminate bottlenecks in delivering high-speed services to customers, or simply delivering services to the huge numbers of customers now accessing web and Internet enabled applications. Although initial applications are largely limited to extremely high bandwidth applications, over the next several years, Lucent anticipates that Optical Area Networking will become a standard component in building networks that integrate storage networking (SANs), campus networking (LANs), voice networking, and wide area networking (MAN/WANs) into a unified optical network with virtually unlimited bandwidth