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To: Beachbumm who wrote (3435)	1/12/1998 9:25:00 AM
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SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 12, 1998-- First Major Vendor to Ship Gigabit Ethernet and Layer 3 Devices for the Enterprise Reinforcing its commitment to leading the new routing switch market, Bay Networks(R), Inc. (NYSE:BAY) today announced volume shipment of its Accelar(TM) 1000 routing switch product family. Routing switches are a new class of product that turbocharge campus networks with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of traditional Layer 2 switches and wire-speed, low-latency IP performance. Bay Networks offers the most comprehensive family of routing switch products on the market today. The Accelar 1000 product family includes the workgroup Accelar 1100 and two modular versions, the Accelar 1200 and Accelar 1250, targeted at high-performance workgroup, wiring closet and network center applications. Current Accelar 1000 customers include: Dreamworks LLC; Duke Energy, one of the largest energy providers in the U.S.; EMC Corporation, a leading enterprise storage solution provider; Miami Dade Community College, the largest community college in the U.S., Nielsen Media Research; and the School of Visual Arts in New York City, the largest independent college of the arts. "The Accelar 1200 routing switch is the only Layer 3 device we've found to provide the density and performance we needed for the size of our operation," said John Booth, manager of data networks for Nielsen Media Research. "Because of its reliability and redundancy features, we feel extremely comfortable installing the Accelar 1200 in the core of our production network." "The market is in transition as customers move from slower software-based routers to high-performance switching products that perform routing in hardware. These new hardware-based products increase the speed while lowering the cost and complexity of our customers' networks," said Lloyd Carney, executive vice president and general manager for Bay Networks' Enterprise Business Group. "Bay Networks is the first major vendor to ship a routing switch product family with both Layer 3 and Gigabit Ethernet capabilities, strongly positioning us at the forefront of this new market." About the Accelar 1000 Routing Switches Accelar routing switches provide dramatic performance improvements in today's networks because they are optimized to route IP. The Accelar routing switch products combine the performance of Ethernet Layer 2 switching with the intelligence of IP routing at wire-speed. The first three members of the Accelar 1000 family include eight-slot, four-slot and stackable models which support 10 Mbps Ethernet, 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet and 1000 Mbps Gigabit Ethernet transmission speeds; the family's high-end model offers up to 96 10/100 Mbps ports or 12 Gigabit Ethernet ports. All ports perform Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching and provide flexible policy-based virtual LAN and prioritization features at wirespeed. Aggregate bandwidth is over seven Gbps, and minimum-size packets (64 bytes or larger) can be routed or switched at more than seven million packets per second. The distributed hardware-based architecture of the Accelar 1000 products enables them to provide capabilities such as: protocol-sensitive VLANs which allow on-going support for legacy protocols; priority queuing which provides support for Quality of Service and Class of Service applications; and IP Multicast support. These features enable existing enterprise networks to migrate easily to high-speed, high-function intranets without requiring a costly and disruptive backbone overhaul. Unlike other proprietary approaches to improving IP performance, the Bay Networks Accelar routing switches leverage existing IP without requiring complex new protocols or expensive network upgrades for the existing routers, switches or adapters. The Accelar routing switches can be plugged into an existing network, without the need for intense configuration or rewiring. Routing switches are also expected to be the dominant approach for deploying Gigabit Ethernet in campus networks, since they address the bandwidth issues that Gigabit speeds create in those environments. The Accelar 1000 product family is the first set of products from Bay Networks to support Gigabit Ethernet technology. "The high-performance route-switch will be the device of choice for campus backbones and even high-density workgroups, providing customers with 10 times the performance over a standard router solution at one tenth the cost," said Esmeralda Silva, senior analyst at International Data Corporation. Bay Networks' philosophy and experience behind building industrial-strength ATM and router-based networks is seamlessly carried over to the Accelar product line with built-in reliability and redundancy features, including redundant switch fabrics, redundant link capabilities and redundant power supplies. These capabilities have enabled Bay Networks to easily scale customer networks to thousands of desktops. The Accelar 1000 routing switch products also have comprehensive network management support via Bay Networks' industry-leading Optivity(R) Network Management applications. Pricing and Availability The Accelar 1000 routing switch product family is shipping and available now. Pricing is as follows: The Accelar 1200 routing switch, with an eight-slot modular chassis, provides up to 96 10/100 Mbps ports and up to 12 Gigabit Ethernet ports, and features optional dual redundant silicon switch fabric modules for hot standby and redundant load-balanced power supplies. The Accelar 1250 routing switch, with a modular four-slot chassis, provides up to 48 10/100 Mbps ports and up to six Gigabit Ethernet ports. Module pricing for both the Accelar 1200 and Accelar 1250 is $625 per 10/100 Mbps port -- pricing which is comparable to many of today's Layer 2 switches with added functionality -- and $2,750 for a Gigabit Ethernet port. An entry-level modular configuration is priced at $22,500. The Accelar 1100 stackable routing switch provides 16 10/100 Mbps ports and includes two mini-slots that support a number of expansion modules including a two-port Gigabit Ethernet module or an eight-port 10/100 Mbps Ethernet module. Pricing is $624 per 10/100 Ethernet port or $2,625 per Gigabit port. An entry-level configuration is list priced at $12,000.