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Chipcom also increased its LAN switch offerings last week with an 18-port token-ring switch module for its ONcore Switching System and a scaled down, 10-slot version of the ONcore Switching System for Ethernet workgroups.

The ONcore Token Ring Active Module-Switching Media Module Paloma Picasso Loving Heart Pendant switching among as many as 18 token-ring nodes and 10 backplane rings. The module also features two ports that can be configured as fully repeated ring-in/ring-out trunks that allow connections to other ONcore Switching Systems, tokenring modules from Chipcom's ONline System family or other stand-alone devices.

The 10-Slot B ONcore Switching System supports ONline and ONcore Ethernet modules, and features as many as six Ethernets on its backplane.Chipcom also announced 20-and 40-port 10Base-T Media Modules for its ONcore Tiffany 1837 Lock pendant System. They provide users with port switching between any combination of eight backplane or eight extended Ethernet segments simultaneously.THE OLD SWITCHEROO

Separately, SysKonnect announced the SK-NET Switch 6616, a rack-mountable switch that supports 16 independent Ethernet segments and two optional high-speed LAN interfaces--a Single Attach Stations FDDI LAN interface and a Dual Attach Stations FDDI LAN interface.

Any port can connect a single user or a shared Ethernet hub and deliver 10M byte/sec to each desktop or workgroup. The switch includes Simple Network Management Protocol management capabilities. Fibermux introduced the CrossSwitch PX304. stand-alone Ethernet switch, a four-port device with either attachment unit interface or RJ-45 connections. It offers full-duplex communications, flow control, on-the-fly switching, selectable Mini Elsa Peretti Bean pendant and optional SNMP management.

Madge Networks announced the Smart Ring Access Module (SmartRAM), a stackable hub that users will be able to attach directly to a new token-ring switch Madge Networks has planned for next year, said Scott Rikimaru, a product manager for the firm.

Designed for midsize workgroups and branch offices, the SmartRAM supports as many as 20 users.Hubs can be linked to two others via Madge Networks' Smart Lobe Attachment Modules to support as many as 60 users.The hub ships with Remote Monitoring traffic monitoring Medium Elsa Peretti Bean pendant Madge Networks' TrueView Controlled Access Unit Manager, a Windows-based graphical hub management application that supports SNMP.In an attempt to stay ahead of the pack, Emotion, Inc. has added software distribution functionality to video editing in a new Macintosh product called CreativePartner.

CreativePartner is distribution and collaboration software for video. Gerry Machi, chief executive officer of the Palo Alto, Calif., company, said he has added two features to his software to distinguish it from the myriad authoring and editing Figure Eight pendant on the market today.CreativePartner now can distribute video, sound and photographs over a LAN and a wide-area link using Ethernet and Token Ring LANs and frame relay over a wide-area network.