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- CONTACT: JOE WALDYGO, PR Manager
- VOICE: 602/690-3215
- FAX: 602/293-8065
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- ARTISOFT'S PEER-HUB(TM) 10BASE-T HUB/CONCENTRATOR NOW
- SHIPPING
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- Industry Standard 10BASE-T Hub Allows Bridging Between
- Artisoft's 10BASE-T and Coax Ethernet Adapters
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- (TUCSON, Ariz.--September 30, 1991)-- Artisoft announced
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- today that is has begun shipping its new Peer-Hub
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- concentrator which provides a complete 10BASE-T hub
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- connection within a PC, XT, AT or EISA computer(ISA mode
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- only). Priced at $399, the Peer-Hub concentrator willwork
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- with any 10BASE-T network including Artisoft's LANtastic(R)
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- Local Area Network and Novell's NetWare(R).
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- According to Jack Schoof, Artisoft President and CEO,
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- "With our Peer-Hub product, we've delivered the promise of
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- 10BASE-T's ease-of-installation, management and flexiblity to
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- every network at a great price."
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- The Peer-Hub concentrator is a complete 10BASE-T hub
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- residing in a host PC. It has five external 10BASE-T ports
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- using modular RJ45 telephone-style jacks that can connect to
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- any standard 10BASE-T adapters. Its network management
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- software allows the host PC to view the status of all ports,
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- as well as activate or disable each port individually. Plus,
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- onboard EEPROM saves the complete network configuration to
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- memory, guarding against power outage.
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- The Peer-Hub concentrator also has three special
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- internal connectors which have been designed to connect with
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- other Artisoft(TM) products. One provides an internal
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- 10BASE-T connection to Artisoft's AE-1/T, AE-2/T(TM) or AE-
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- 3(TM) Ethernet adapters without using one of the five
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- external RJ45 ports. Another internal connector is used to
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- link multiple Peer-Hub concentrators together; up to four per
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- PC. The third option, with the separate purchase of an
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- Artisoft AUI Interface Kit, provides an internal coax
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- connection between the Peer-Hub concentrator and an Artisoft
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- AE-3 Ethernet adapter(which supports thin and thick coax in
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- addition to 10BASE-T connections). Used in this manner, the
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- AUI Interface Kit creates a bridge between the 10BASE-T
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- network on the hub and a coax Ethernet segment attached to
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- the AE-3 Ethernet adapter.
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- Artisoft develops and manufactures a full line of
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- hardware and software for local area network including the
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- LANtastic Local Area Network. The LANtastic network is a
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- peer-to-peer network that allows users of IBM-compatible
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- computers to share programs, data and peripheral devices such
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- as printers, hard drives, tape backups and CD-ROMs.
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- For more information about Artisoft or its product line,
- contact Artisoft, Inc. at the Artisoft Campus, 691 E. River
- Road, Tucson, AZ 85704. Telephone 602/293-6363. Fax 602/293-
- 8065.