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- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: AUGUST 16, 1991
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- Media Contact: Joe Waldygo, P.R. Manager
- Voice:602-690-3215
- Fax:602-293-8065
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- ARTISOFT ANNOUNCES NEW PEER-HUB 10BASE-T HUB/CONCENTRATOR
- Allows Interconnectivity Between Artisoft's 10Base-T and Thin Coax Ethernet
- Adapters.
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- TUCSON, Ariz.--Artisoft today announced its new Peer-Hub 10Base-T
- hub/concentrator which provides a complete 10Base-T hub connection within a PC,
- XT, AT or EISA computer (ISA mode only). Scheduled to ship in September 1991
- at $399, the Peer-Hub concentrator will work with any 10Base-T network including
- Artisoft's LANtastic local area network, Novell's NetWare or Microsoft's LAN
- Manager.
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- According to Artisoft President and CEO Jack Schoof, "Our Peer-Hub product
- finally brings the promise of 10Base-T's ease-of-installation, management and
- flexibility to every network at a great price."
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- The Peer-Hub concentrator has five external 10Base-T ports using modular RJ45,
- 8-wire, telephone-style connectors and measures only 5 x 5 inches, allowing it to fit
- in any half- card IBM-PC (ISA) slot. Special purpose internal connectors were
- designed onto the Peer-Hub concentrator which allow it to connect with Artisoft's
- AE-3(tm) three-in-one (10Base-T, thin and thick coax) Ethernet adapter and the new
- AE-1/T(tm) 10Base-T Ethernet adapter without using any of its five external ports.
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- One of the Peer-Hub concentrator's most unique and exciting features is its ability
- to interconnect and support Artisoft's industry-standard 10Base-T and thin coax
- Ethernet adapters on the same network. This mixed cabling is made possible by
- utilizing the special internal connectors on the Peer-Hub concentrator and AE-3
- Ethernet adapter and linking them together with a ribbon cable which is supplied with
- the Peer-Hub concentrator. This allows the Peer-Hub concentrator to simultaneously
- support a star topology through its five external 10Base-T ports and a bus topology
- using thin coax thorough the AE-3 Ethernet adapter and the network adapters
- attached to it. This capability creates a multitude of possibilities for combining cabling
- strategies and topologies.
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- Multiple Peer-Hub concentrators may be linked together by another internal
- connector to form larger hubs. The maximum number of Peer-Hub concentrators
- supported on one network is four. They can be located in one computer or
- distributed in any combination. This allows users or resellers to cost effectively add
- five 10Base-T ports at a time.
- The Peer-Hub concentrator is equipped with on-board EEPROM intelligence that
- can remember its network configuration for up to 10 years. Each port has a 16
- character port name, a four-character physical location, and a four-character wiring
- location as well as an active/inactive switch. A reseller can easily pre-configure the
- Peer-Hub concentrator, take it to the customer's site and install it quickly and easily.
- If power is lost and restored, the Peer-Hub concentrator reconfigures the host PC
- using the information stored in the EEPROM. Managers can easily keep track of
- their networks by using the names and the physical and wiring locations stored in the
- Peer-Hub concentrator.
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- Peer-Hub network management software allows the user to view the status of all
- ports and to activate or disable ports on a port-by-port basis. Alarms and audit trails
- come standard with the Peer-Hub software. While being viewed, if the status of a
- port changes, the software uses sound to alert the manager of a problem such as a
- critical server's link going down. A status change may also be audited to disk for later
- review. Peer-Hub concentrators can be controlled from non-host PCs using remote
- control LAN software such as The Network Eye(tm) LAN utility also by Artisoft.
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- Artisoft offers a full product line of low-cost, award- winning software and hardware
- for local area network communications.
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- For more information about the Artisoft product line, contact Artisoft, Inc., Artisoft
- Plaza, 575 E. River Road, Tucson, AZ 85704. Telephone 602-293-6363. Fax
- 602-293-8065.