Luminex Announces Expansion of the Mainframe Channel Gateway Product Family
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Luminex Software, Inc., a leading developer of mainframe connectivity,  channel gateway, storage and data distribution products, announced new  additions to the Channel Gateway FICON and ESCON family of mainframe  connectivity solutions.
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(InfoWorld) - Cisco launched this week the smallest version yet of its biggest router -- a four-slot Carrier Routing System-1, intended to extend 40Gbps from a core network to regional carrier POPs, Cisco says. The four-slot CRS-1 joins its eight and sixteen slot brethren and offers carriers another tool for expanding 40Gbps, or OC-768 connectivity throughout a network. The device includes four slots which can support four-port OC-192 (10Gbps) line cards, or single-port 40Gbps blades. The box also includes several traffic shaping and network virtualization features aimed at serving business and consumer network customers, Cisco says. The four-slot CRS-1 supports up to 320Gbps of total routing capacity, Cisco says. Traffic management features in the router also allow users to carve up bandwidth or network services for various customers, with Secure Domain Routers. This feature allows users to create a virtual router for each line card in a CRS-1 system. The traffic on virtual Secure Domain Routers is segregated from other network segments, keeping various customer's data from mixing, and allowing carriers to apply different rules to traffic, and use different protocols and technologies for customer networks. (For instance, a CRS-1 serving both a consumer video on demand -- VOD -- network and a business services network could activate multicast on a VOD Secure domain router, and MPLS and IP VPN services on the business network virtual router, Cisco says). The four-slot CRS-1 was an important piece in the puzzle for Sprint's nationwide network upgrade, which will begin this quarter using CRS-1s across all levels of the network. The smaller size of the four-slot CRS-1 will allow Sprint to expand the reach of its 40Gbps network to smaller locations, which may have only had 10Gbps connectivity in the past, according to Iyad Tarazi, vice president of network development at Sprint. The smaller-size CRS-1 can also operate with multiple CRS-1 chassis in Cisco's multi-chassis routing configuration, which allows multiple CRS-1 boxes to be lashed together for greater failover and distributed router processing capabilities, Cisco says. The four-slot CRS-1 will be available in November starting at $160,000.
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New features of the Apex programming language will allow customers more connections with other vendors' applications.
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Tomorrow Cisco Systems Inc. will announce an upgrade to its small business and branch office line of routers, incorporating more processing speed and a raft of new features.
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Irvine-based Gateway refreshed its lineup of personal computers yesterday, introducing two new Media Center PCs. The company&#39;s 3250X Media Center PC and 7200S Media Center PC both use Microsoft&#39;s new Windows
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Sun Microsystems Inc. plans later this month to unveil its first ever content switch: a load-balancing and SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) acceleration switch based on the Nauticus N2000 products that the Santa Clara, California, company acquired in January of this year.
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Emulex Corp. unveiled Tuesday its new FibreSpy switch-on-a-chip SOC 804 family of embedded storage for OEM customers looking to build to the new 4-gigabit Fibre Channel standard.
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Emulex has introduced a new entry-level line of SANÂ  switch products designed for small and midsize businesses and small departmental SAN applications in a large enterprise.Â  The new line has already been adopted by IBM for its recently introduced TotalStorage DS400, an entry-level Fibre Channel storage array announced last week.
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The speed of FireWire is set to quadruple next year after the group behind it announced a new specification for the networking interface.
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Claims big speed-up for apps over WANs Expand Networks has developed an Oracle-specific software module for its Compass WAN acceleration gear, and claims that beta testers and its own labs are reporting anything from five to 65 times performance gain as a result.â¦
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Cisco Systems on Tuesday announced enhancements to its Catalyst switching product line, and also announced &quot;the industry&#39;s first&quot; Gigabit Ethernet-enabled IP phone.
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Networking provider upgrades a slew of products so large companies can better connect their workers.
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Gateway plans to overhaul its consumer PC lineup Thursday with new configurable models that will be sold exclusively through the company's Web site and call centers.
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A look at the blade platform and switch system that make up Sun's Constellation System, which launched Monday.
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Cisco Systems is accelerating its push into the SMB market with the launch this week of entry-level switching modules, an aggregation switch and a Web-based management tool that helps smaller customers gain easier access to high-level features.
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The packaging and shipping company plans to upgrade readers it&#39;s testing to the next-generation, multiprotocol technology. By Elena Malykhina.
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First products from Alaxala Networks include a high-end gigabit router, a high-end multilevel switch and a mid-range multilevel switch.