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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 21:11:43 EST
- From: UGU00266@vm.uoguelph.ca
- Subject: Apple PR release for InterNet Router
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- MOVED OVER PR NEWSWIRE AT 7:01 AM, PST, TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1993.
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- Contacts:
- Emilio Robles
- Apple Computer, Inc.
- 408/862-5671
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- John McCreadie
- Regis McKenna, Inc.
- 408/974-4398
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- Apple Unveils Its Latest Internetworking Router
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- New technology allows AppleTalk network users to easily connect local
- and remote workgroups together
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- BOSTON, Massachusetts--January 12, 1993--Apple Computer, Inc. today
- announced a family of internetworking router software products
- enabling organizations to easily increase the size, performance and
- manageability of their AppleTalk networks.
- The Apple Internet Router product family provides wide-area
- networking (WAN) connectivity by implementing a new technology--
- called the AppleTalk Update-based Routing Protocol (AURP)--which
- significantly reduces network traffic. Additionally, the new router
- software provides enhanced local area networking (LAN) support,
- routing data between industry standard LocalTalk, Ethernet, Token-
- Ring and other network types.
- "AURP technology is an important step to providing organizations of
- all sizes with a completely scalable network system," said Morris
- Taradalsky, vice president and general manager for Apple's Enterprise
- Systems Division (ESD). "AURP and its implementation in the Apple
- Internet Router leverage Apple's traditional strengths in making
- technology that is powerful, yet easy to deploy, as well as easy to
- administer."
- Apple's latest internet router is a cost-effective solution which
- allows AppleTalk networks to be "tunneled" through dial-up
- connections via standard modems, or over networks using X.25 and
- TCP/IP as well as other industry standards.
- The Apple Internet Router product family includes a base connectivity
- kit and two Apple extension kits for moving AppleTalk data across
- foreign (non-AppleTalk) networks. The Basic Connectivity Package
- provides the core routing software and technology, including a dial-
- up extension for connecting remote workgroups together over standard
- telephone lines as well as network management support through the
- industry-standard Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
- It also provides the base product on which other extensions can be
- built. Apple's two extension packages--the AppleTalk/IP Wide Area
- Extension and the AppleTalk/X.25 Wide Area Extension--provide wide
- area AppleTalk routing over TCP/IP and X.25 networks, respectively.
- The extension kits are sold separately.
- The Apple Internet Router product family will replace Apple's current
- router--the AppleTalk Internet Router 2.0. The new router is a
- completely redesigned product with many capabilities beyond the 2.0
- router, yet it provides all the functionality of its predecessor.
- The Apple Internet Router, like all Apple products, is easy to set up
- and configure. It includes many advanced features, such as network
- number remapping, which allows users to connect independently
- administered networks without concern for network numbering
- conflicts. Additional features include security options to protect
- networks from unauthorized use and built-in data compression for
- increased throughput. Also, built-in SNMP support enables the router
- to be monitored from any SNMP-based network management console.
- The modular design of the Apple Internet Router allows for current
- and future Apple and third party extension products to be easily
- added as an organization's network grows. Many third party
- developers, such as MultiAccess Computing Corp., Farallon Computing
- Inc. and The AG Group, among others, are currently providing
- extension products that add value to the new line of router software.
- These companies offer products that support technologies such as
- Frame Relay, ISDN, T1 and SMDS data links, remote administration
- support, and hierarchical choosing.
- "The modular architecture of Apple's new router products creates a
- wonderful opportunity for third parties that support AURP to easily
- build add-on capabilities, such as the SMDS nubus adapter MulitAccess
- is currently shipping," said Tom Barich, vice president of sales and
- marketing for Multiaccess Computing. "The routing foundation that
- Apple provides, combined with third party extension products, gives
- both small and large organizations a very powerful and scalable
- solution for interconnecting LANs and WANs."
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- New AURP Technology
- AURP was designed to improve AppleTalk for use on wide-area networks
- (WANs), including telecommunication links and campus-like backbone
- networks. It is an enhancement to the AppleTalk architecture that
- improves the efficiency and scalability of AppleTalk internets,
- allowing users to easily interconnect local and remote Macintosh
- computers and PC workgroups.
- AURP specifies a standard way of tunneling AppleTalk through foreign
- network systems, such as TCP/IP, X.25, OSI and DECnet. "AURP
- provides the basis for building global AppleTalk networks, as well as
- for hosting AppleTalk within established global networks such as the
- TCP/IP Internet," said Apple Product Line Manager Dana Harrison.
- It also provides for efficient routing over point-to-point lines or
- multipoint connections. As its name implies, AURP updates routing
- tables only when a change occurs in the network and does so by
- transmitting only the changed information, thereby greatly reducing
- network traffic. This contrasts the AppleTalk Routing Table
- Maintenance Protocol (RTMP) which sends full routing information
- every 10 seconds.
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- Pricing and Availability
- The Apple Internet Router software operates on all Macintosh
- computers with at least 4 megabytes of memory and System 7.0 or
- later. The software was designed for AppleTalk Phase 2 networks
- only. Pricing and availability is as follows:
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- Apple Internet Router Products Price Availability
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- Basic Connectivity Package US$ 499 February '93
- Includes Apple Internet Router software and installer,
- DialUp Wide Area Extension and SNMP Router Agent.
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- AppleTalk/IP Wide Area Extension US$ 499 February '93
- Requires purchase of Basic Connectivity Package,
- and includes Router IP software and installer.
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- AppleTalk/X.25 Wide Area Extension US$1,299 March '93
- Requires purchase of Basic Connectivity Package,
- and includes Router X.25 software and installer,
- and MacX25 server software.
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- These products will be available worldwide from Apple authorized
- resellers and in the United States by calling The Apple Catalog at
- 1-800-795-1000.
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- Upgrade Program
- For a limited time, upgrades from the AppleTalk Internet Router 2.0
- to the new Apple Internet Router Basic Connectivity Package will be
- available. For customers with 2.0 router versions purchased before
- November 1, 1992, upgrade packages will be available for $149. For
- 2.0 routers purchased after November 1, 1992, the cost is $49.
- Upgrade packages will only be available through June 12, 1993, and
- proof of purchase will be required.
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- Apple, the Apple logo, Macintosh, AppleTalk and LocalTalk are
- registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. DECnet is a trademark
- of Digital Equipment Corp.
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- Apple Press Releases
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