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The company also said it will begin offering Fiber Distributed Data Interface products by this fall and unveiled the second release of its network management software, which will give the 7700 enhanced security and fault-prevention capabilities plus visibility to IBM's NetView management system.

Bytex formed technology alliances with Wellfleet Communications, Inc. and CrossComm Corp. to Ten row Chain Heart Set two separate eight-port bridge/router modules for the hub--one geared largely toward token-ring local-area networks and the other toward Ethernets. Each will enable a user to route data packets at wire speed among as many as four token-ring, two Ethernet and two wide-area network links.

That's a vast improvement over typical two-port router cards that reside in Venetian Link Set intelligent hub and route traffic between two hub-attached LANs or from one LAN onto a WAN, said Janet Hyland, director of network strategy research at Forrester Research Inc., a Cambridge, Mass., consultancy.

"Today's hub-based routers are low-end devices with a limited number of port connections so users who need better performance must look to a stand-alone router. With the Bytex router, they can now get that high-performance routing right inside the hub," Hyland said. Although Dove Pendent Necklace and Earrings Set is the first, she expects a number of vendors will roll out so-called second-generation inter-networking hub modules over the next year.

Bytex's new routing modules will plug into one of four optional card slots in the 17-slot 7700 hub chassis and provide access to the device's 3G bit/sec matrix switch-based backplane. They will be able to dynamically establish links across the Tiffany & Co Atlas Set at full LAN speeds, offering support for such high-bandwidth applications as imaging.

That also enables the modules to support per-port routing, meaning data coming into one bridge/router port is sent out of its destination port without traversing intermediate networks. This contrasts with typical hub-based routing that--because of its two-LAN limitation--often requires multiple hops.

The modules will support the same popular LAN protocols as Wellfleet's and CrossComm's existing bridge/routers, as well as transparent bridging and the source routing and source routing transparent bridging algorithms.Bytex said the router will be available by year end. Pricing details were not available.

Bytex also announced plans to support FDDI LANs by year end. The Elsa Peretti Open Heart Pendant in Sterling Silver will first provide a stand-alone FDDI Work Group Concentrator that supports fiber-and copper-based FDDI links to the desktop and, by the first half of 1393, an FDDI router module for the 7700 hub that will give token-ring and Ethernet LANs access to an FDDI backbone.

On the net management front, the Series 7700 NMS Release 2.0 software includes four new management capabilites to enhance the management and security of the 7700 hub. One detects token-ring beaconing conditions, another helps isolate faults, and a third monitors Elsa Peretti 5 OPEN HEART Set connected to the LAN and notifies a net administrator of unauthorized additions or moves.

To enable net administrators to manage the net from a central IBM host management station, Series 7700 NMS is also equipped with software that enables it to send alert data to and receive commands from NetView.