kozel@milano.cisco.com (Edward R. Kozel) (05/29/90)
CISCO, CABLETRON ENTER CO-KEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT TO PUT ROUTING TECHNOLOGY INTO INTELLIGENT HUBS MENLO PARK, Calif., May 14, 1990 -- cisco Systems, Inc., and Cabletron Systems, Inc., have entered into a strategic alliance to integrate cisco's internetwork routing technology into Cabletron's Multi-Media Access Center (MMAC) intelligent hub products. The agreement calls for Cabletron and cisco to jointly develop a router module that will plug into the MMAC chassis, resulting in the MMAC's first routing capability. Network management for the integrated product will be provided by the industry-standard Simple Network Management Protocol, already supported by both firms. The new module will perform local and remote routing of data from the MMAC through both serial and Ethernet interfaces. It also will provide added flexibility for connections over T1 circuits and X.25 wide-area networks. The MMAC router module, expected to be available by the end of 1990, will be manufactured, sold and supported by cisco. [boilerplate deleted] ####################################################################3 CHIPCOM AND CISCO SIGN DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT FOR TRICHANNEL TM LAN/WAN INTERCONNECT Will Co-Develop Integrated Solutions for Large, Complex Facility Networks SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass., April 30, 1990 -- Chipcom Corporation and cisco Systems, Inc. today announced a joint development agreement designed to provide customers with integrated facility LAN wiring and internetworking routing solutions. Under the agreement, the companies will co-develop a modular version of cisco's multi-protocol LAN/WAN routing technology that will be integrated into Chipcom's ONline System Concentrator and managed by Chipcom's SNMP-based ONline network management system. Product development is expected to be completed by year end on the module, which will be sold by Chipcom as an option to the ONline System Concentrator. Cisco President John Morgridge said, "For today's large, complex internetworked LANs, high-performance routing plays an increasingly important role in providing connectivity to remote sites and allowing users to segment their networks for optimum performance. Incorporating this technology into the wiring concentrator eliminates the need for a separate router box and provides the added benefit of integrated network management." Introduced in January of this year, Chipcom's ONline System Concentrator is the industry's first fault-tolerant multi-channel wiring concentrator designed for the large complex networks of the 90s. A key benefit of the ONline System is Chipcom's unique TriChannel architecture. With three independent data channels, it support up to three concurrent Ethernet, Token Ring and FDDI networks in any combination and serves as a platform for integrated bridging and routing. [boilerplate deleted] ###########################################################################