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To: richroni who wrote (20344)	1/23/1999 2:15:00 AM
From: Douglas Nordgren	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29386

INRANGE delivers 8/16 port Fibre Channel Switch inrange.com Thanks to Rosmuk8 on Yahoo! FC/9000 provides high-speed Fibre Channel switching at managed hub prices. MOUNT LAUREL, NEW JERSEY, January 19, 1999 -- INRANGE™ Technologies Corporation, a worldwide provider of end-to-end connectivity technology, today announced the General Availability (GA) and initial installations of the Fibre Channel/9000™ (FC/9000) Fibre Channel switch for Storage Area Network (SAN) environments. The FC/9000 is a high-performance Fibre Channel switch initially available in both an 8-port and a 16-port version, delivering high-scalability, along with high aggregate bandwidth for open system and enterprise data centers. Featuring gigabit-speed throughput, browser-based management, self-configuring ports and multistage scalability, the FC/9000 represents a family of advanced, breakthrough technology, Fibre Channel switching solutions for managing high-speed connections between servers or computing clusters, and a variety of storage devices in a SAN environment. INRANGE's FC/9000 provides global businesses with dynamic linking between multiple computing systems, while allowing for the creation of heterogeneous and expandable Fibre Channel networks that seamlessly integrate SANs, servers and storage devices. "We are extremely pleased to be entering into the Fibre Channel marketplace with a product, such as the FC/9000, offering today's businesses a viable solution for developing their SAN infrastructure," said Dave Supinski, Vice President of Marketing, INRANGE Technologies Corp. "The FC/9000 is the same proven technology that will be deployed in the CD/9000™ Channel Director and complements INRANGE's OM/9000™ Wavelength Division Multiplexer, as well as the FMS/Fibre Channel Management solutions which already support Fibre Channel. Today's announcement underscores our continued commitment to delivering the most advanced, high-speed connectivity technology to meet the growing networking, SAN and data center connectivity needs of the most compute-intensive environments." INRANGE Technologies Delivers 8-Port And 16-Port Fibre Channel Switching Solutions For Implementing Storage Area Networks Available with optical or copper media modules, the FC/9000 furnishes users with 1.062 Gbps performance and latency of less than 600 nanoseconds, making it the lowest latency Fibre Channel switch in the industry. In addition, the FC/9000 delivers either an 8- or 16-port chassis, with up to eight arbitrated loop ports per switch. The FC/9000 also supports Class 3-2-1 and Intermix connectivity. The FC/9000 is scalable to 192 ports on a single fabric and is fully compliant with the current Fibre Channel physical interface standard, FC-PH 4.3. It is seamlessly interoperable with other vendors' Fibre Channel standard compliant products. INRANGE Technologies Corporation, (formerly General Signal Networks) an SPX company, is a provider of channel switches and channel extension products for copper- and ESCON-based mainframes and SCSI- and PCI-based servers; matrix switches for wide area networks; wavelength division multiplexers; fiber management systems; and performance monitoring and test systems for digital and analog networks. Headquartered in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, INRANGE Technologies has 1000 employees at manufacturing locations in New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, and sales and support offices worldwide.