SYSTRAN Corp. Unveils FibreXpress Family of Fibre Channel Adapters at
NetWorld+Interop '96

Las Vegas, Nevada, April 1, 1996 - SYSTRAN Corp., developer of the
SCRAMNet+ real-time computer communications network, today announced the
availability of four FibreXpress Network host bus adapters which are based
on the ANSI standard Fibre Channel. The family includes adapters for PCI,
VME, and Sbus architectures, as well as a PMC adapter configured as a PCI
mezzanine card. The boards provide users with the ability to use the
performance capabilities of Fibre Channel to link a variety of computers
such as PCs and Silicon Graphics and SUN workstations and servers. In
addition, the PMC adapter enables users to link single board computers
such as the PowerPC into their Fibre Channel network.

Features of the FibreXpress host bus adapters include:

* 266 Megabaud or 1.062 Gigabaud data transmission rates.
* 100 Mbytes/sec dada rate.
* 128 Kbytes or 512 Kbytes of on-card buffer memory.
* Fibre Channel class 1, 2, or 3 communications.
* Switched fabric, arbitrated loop or point-to-point configurations.
* Up to 10 Km between nodes.
* Fiber optic or copper link support.
* Intelligent Fibre Channel ASIC with multi-channel DMA engine for
  queue management.

The FibreXpress Network line of adapters is designed to maximize the
communication and interconnect capabilities of the Fibre Channel standard,
which allows integrators to link up to 16,000,000 nodes at speeds of up to
1 Gigabaud. FibreXpress is ideally suited for all applications requiring
high-speed, high-throughput data transfer in a LAN environment such as
publishing, medical imaging, campus networking, workstation clustering,
network backboning and mass storage systems. 

Located at 4126 Linden Avenue, Dayton, Ohio 45432-3068 USA, SYSTRAN Corp.
specializes in real-time networking, I/O IP modules, and defense-related
hardware/software R&D. The company's SCRAMNet Network is a leading
real-time network, with thousands of nodes used in diverse applications
throughout the world. 

Systran Corp
4126 Linden Ave
Dayton, OH 45432-3068
513-252-5601,  513-258-2729
 
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