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- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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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
- today that it has begun shipping its new Peer-Hub concentrator
- which provides a complete 10BASE-T hub connection within a PC, XT,
- AT or EISA computer (ISA mode only). Priced at $399, the Peer-Hub
- concentrator will work with any 10BASE-T network including
- Artisoft's LANtastic(r) Local Area Network and Novell's NetWare(r).
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- According to Jack Schoof, Artisoft President and CEO, "With
- our Peer-Hub product, we've delivered 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 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(tm) products. One provides an internal 10BASE-T connection
- to Artisoft's AE-1/T, AE-2/T(tm) or AE-3(tm) 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, with the separate purchase of
- an Artisoft AUI Interface Kit, provides an internal coax connection
- between the Peer-Hub concentrator and an Artisoft AE-3 Ethernet
- adapter (which supports thin and thick coax in addition to 10BASE-T
- connections). Used in this manner, the AUI Interface Kit creates a
- bridge between the 10BASE-T network on the hub and a 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 network 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.
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