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To: leebo who wrote (12689)	3/3/1998 6:15:00 PM
From: Maverick	Respond to of 77400

Intel Boosts Networking By Carmen Nobel in San Francisco and Scott Berinato, PC Week February 27, 1998 2:26 PM PST Intel Corp. is embracing networking from the home to the enterprise with new products ranging from small hubs to Layer 3 Gigabit Ethernet routing switches. The Santa Clara, Calif., company last week announced a market segmentation strategy called "balanced computing" at its Intel Networking Event 1998 held here. The products introduced included the following: the Express 550T and 550F routing switches, which complement the 510T switch and will be available this month for $399 and $999 per port, respectively; a one-port Gigabit Ethernet module for $2,995, due this month; and the Express 8100 router, due next month for small offices for $699, with an encryption upgrade for virtual private networking available for an additional $199, and the Express 130T stand-alone hub, available now for $695. In addition, Intel promised to ship a new NIC (network interface card) every month for the next six months. Among these will be a Gigabit Ethernet adapter, which the company demonstrated here. Designed to complement Intel switches, the server-side NIC runs in both 64-bit and 32-bit PCI, officials said. The company also previewed a Gigabit switch that included seven ports and an additional add-on module. The switch is not stackable, but future versions of the product will be, officials said. Early last week, Intel also announced a specific partnership with Compaq Computer Corp. for the development of NICs. At that time, Compaq announced the first products to come from the partnership--the jointly developed $80 Netelligent 10/100 TX PCI and the 10 TPCI. "Compaq is really a channel for Intel's products," said Justin Smith, an analyst at International Data Corp., in Framingham, Mass. "Compaq will be taking Intel's building blocks and packaging them. That's going to be the relationship, as far as we can see." The Express 8100 router.