February 05, 1999 12:44
Ancor Announces OEM Agreement with JNI; GigWorks MKII Switches Chosen as Part of High-Performance SAN Solution
MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Ancor Communications (Nasdaq: ANCR), a leading Fibre Channel switch provider, announced today it has signed an OEM agreement with JNI (formerly Jaycor Networks Inc.), a leading vendor of Fibre Channel products. Under the agreement, JNI will test, integrate, and sell Ancor's MKII family of switches as part of a complete SAN solution for the high-end enterprise market.
JNI chose Ancor's GigWorks MKII switches for their reliability, speed, and potential to scale to very large enterprise SANs. Scott Ruple, JNI's vice president of marketing, said, "We are excited to partner with a pioneer such as Ancor Communications. Their wealth of experience is obvious in the price/performance of their switch. With the MKII switches as part of our solution, we can now offer a complete Fibre Channel product for cost-sensitive workgroups."
"We recommend JNI's SBus adapter cards for their high performance," said Carla Kennedy, Ancor's vice president of marketing. "Their recent acquisition of Adaptec's Fibre Channel product line and the additional offering of Ancor's MKII switches further strengthen their position, enabling JNI to offer a powerful solution for storage-area networks."
About Ancor Communications
Ancor Communications Inc. provides GigWorks(TM) high-performance storage and data-intensive network solutions based on Fibre Channel technology. The company was the first to deliver a Fibre Channel switch, and the first to top the one-gigabit performance level. Ancor is a member of the Fibre Channel Association, the Storage Networking Industry Alliance, the Fibre Channel Loop Community, the ANSI Standards Committee, and the University of New Hampshire Fibre Channel Consortium to promote the advancement of Fibre Channel standards and interoperability. Information on Ancor is available on the World Wide Web at ancor.com
About JNI
JNI, a leading vendor of Fibre Channel products, offers a complete line of high-performance, high-quality Fibre Channel adapter cards, hubs, routers, switches and software. Headquartered in San Diego, JNI's leading-edge technologies target Storage Area Networks (SANs) and a broad range of networked storage applications, including video editing, banking/finance, government, and corporate enterprise, addressing the need for extremely reliable, high-speed network connections between clients, servers and storage devices. JNI (formerly Jaycor Networks Inc.) is a privately held company. JNI is a member of the Fibre Channel Association, the Fibre Channel Community, and the FibreAlliance. For more information on JNI and the company's Fibre Channel products, visit the company's web site at jni.com
For more information about Fibre Channel technology and Ancor Fibre Channel solutions, call 800-342-7379 or access World Wide Web site ancor.com. Media, contact Mary Miller, Ancor, at 612-932-4071 or marym@ancor.com or Aaron Pearson, Shandwick, at 612-841-6217 or apearson@shandwick.com.
Forward-looking statements as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 are qualified by the risk factors outlined in the documents Ancor Communications, Inc. files with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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