To: OverSold who wrote (996 ) 1/27/1999 1:48:00 PM From: Douglas Nordgren Respond to of 4808
Ancor Signs OEM Agreement With INRANGEbiz.yahoo.com INRANGE Debuting New SAN Switches at ComNet '99 MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Ancor Communications (Nasdaq: ANCR - news), a leading provider of Fibre Channel storage-area-network (SAN) switches, announced today it has signed an OEM agreement with INRANGE Technologies Corporation, a worldwide provider of end-to-end connectivity technology. Under the agreement, Ancor will provide INRANGE its GigWorks MKII family of switches, in both 8- and 16-port configurations, to integrate into INRANGE's Fibre Channel/90A0 SAN switches. The agreement is additional to the licensing agreement Ancor announced with INRANGE in the fall of last year, and the third OEM agreement signed in the last two months. INRANGE's FC/9000 SAN switches will be introduced at ComNet '99, held this week in Washington, D.C. INRANGE chose Ancor's MKII family of switches for its high scalability and high aggregate bandwidth, features necessary to serve its customers' demanding enterprise data center environment. ''Ancor's switches deliver on the promise of Fibre Channel to enable us to swiftly develop the FC/9000,'' said Dave Supinski, INRANGE's vice president of marketing. ''This OEM relationship allows us to enter the SAN marketplace with a Fibre Channel pioneer and a proven leader in switch technology. INRANGE's customers will reap the benefits of gigabit-speed throughput, browser-based management, self-configuring ports, and multistage scalability.'' According to Carla Kennedy, Ancor's vice president of marketing, ''INRANGE's expertise in enterprise data center environments coupled with the robust features and price performance of the MKII switch family allows INRANGE customers to take advantage of the most advanced, high-speed connectivity technology available. At about the price of a managed hub, the FC/9000 is an excellent solution to meet the growing networking, SAN and data center connectivity needs of the most compute-intensive environments.''