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- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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- Contact: Joe Waldygo, PR Manager
- Voice: 602/690-3215
- FAX: 602/293-8065
- MCI Mail: JWALDYGO
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- ARTISOFT'S AUI INTERFACETM KIT FOR THE ARTISOFTTM PEER-HUBTM
- CONCENTRATOR NOW SHIPPING
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- When Combined with Artisoft's Peer-Hub Concentrator,
- Provides Internal Bridge and Connection Between 10BASE-T
- and Coax Ethernet Networks
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- (TUCSON, Ariz. -- October 16, 1991) -- Artisoft announced today
- that it has begun shipping its new AUI Interface Kit which, when
- combined with Artisoft's Peer-Hub Concentrator, provides an
- internal bridge and connection between 10BASE-T and coax Ethernet
- networks. The AUI Interface Kit is priced at $399.
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- According to Dave Hallmen, Artisoft's Vice President of Sales and
- Marketing, "The AUI Interface Kit allows network users to take
- advantage of the Peer-Hub concentrator's flexibility in combining
- coax and 10BASE-T Ethernet cabling within a network."
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- The AUI Interface Kit includes two pulse transformer chips and a
- modified Artisoft AE-3TM Ethernet adapter with an AUI Interface
- cable attached. Installation is as easy as plugging the two
- transformer chips and the AUI Interface cable into the Peer-Hub
- concentrator. A complete thin or thick coax Ethernet segment can
- then be connected to the AE-3 Ethernet adapter (which supports thin
- and thick coax cabling in addition to 10BASE-T), and thus, to the
- 10BASE-T network.
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- The Peer-Hub concentrator is a complete 10BASE-T hub residing in a
- host PC. It has five external 10BASE-T ports using modular RJ45
- telephone-style jacks that can connect to any standard 10BASE-T
- adapters. Its network management software allows the host PC to
- view the status of all ports, as well as activate or disable each
- port individually. Plus, onboard EEPROM saves the complete network
- configuration to memory, guarding against power outage.
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- The Peer-Hub concentrator also has three special internal
- connectors which have been designed to connect with other Artisoft
- products. One provides an internal 10BASE-T connection to
- Artisoft's AE-1/TTM, AE-2/TTM or AE-3 Ethernet adapters without
- using one of the five external RJ45 ports. Another internal
- connector is used to link multiple Peer-Hub concentrators together;
- up to four per PC. The third option, which requires the AUI
- Interface Kit, provides an internal coax connection between the
- Peer-Hub concentrator and an AE-3 Ethernet adapter. Used in this
- manner, the AUI Interface Kit creates a bridge between the 10BASE-T
- network on the hub and the coax Ethernet segment attached to the
- AE-3 Ethernet adapter.
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- Artisoft develops and manufactures a full line of hardware and
- software for local area networks including the LANtastic« Local
- Area Network. The LANtastic network is a peer-to-peer network that
- allows users of IBM«-compatible computers to share programs, data
- and peripheral devices such 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. # # #