"With a per-port cost of just $85, the ES-1000 offers an excellent price point as an entry level Ethernet switch for wiring closets and workgroups," said Jacques Welter, product line manager, frame products for
FORE Systems. "Even with its low price, the ES-1000 provides a rich, standards-based feature set that makes it an attractive alternative to competitive offerings."
GEC was among the biggest risers, up 51.5p to 660p on Tuesday - basking in positive comment over its deal to buy Internet switching group
Fore Systems.
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-(C) 1994-9 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The General Electric Co Plc (GEC) has agreed to pay a total of US$4.5bn for the acquisition of
FORE Systems Inc, a US-based designer and producer of networking products based on ATM and IP technologies.
FORE Systems employees savor the flavor of a new type of corporate cafeteria.
Robert Travis, director of analyst relations at Cabletron said: "If you look at recent trends in the market, we are the last independent company of our size and when GEC acquired
Fore Systems a month back it left us sitting there." He refused to confirm who the company was in talks with but noted that Ericsson, Siemens and Nokia had still not picked up a strong datacoms company and would "need to get into this market by the end of the year."
The Demarc 100, which will reside on the end user premises, will help
FORE Systems expand its presence in two expanding markets.
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FORE Systems Inc has launched OC-3c/OC-12c port cards for its ForeRunner ASX-4000 switch.
Tom Gill, CEO of
FORE Systems, looks out on a different world from one that existed just 18 months ago.
He also bought US communications companies Reltec and
Fore Systems to strengthen GEC's communications arm and increase its exposure to the booming US market.
The IBX facilities will lease cabinet space for any business to come in and stack web servers, Cisco switches, Sun Solaris boxes or "whatever they need to do" said Avery, hooking together services via a
Fore Systems ASZ 4000 central switch.
Add two PCI 100 Mbps Ethernet cards (a total of $150), and one 25 Mbps PCI
Fore Systems ATM card (for $1,000).
With Ascend's acquisition by Lucent Technologies likely to be confirmed soon, and GEC's acquisition of
Fore Systems to follow shortly after, Newbridge is the last major carrier-class ATM switch maker left in play.
Engineers from ZIPCOM and
FORE Systems installed the new network in an extremely high-pressure, mission-critical environment.
Merrill analysts said they believed that
Fore Systems and Reltec, both acquired by Marconi in the past two years, were not performing extremely well.
General Electric Company (GEC) Plc, the UK electronics group, has bought ATM-switch maker
Fore Systems for $4.5bn in cash, its second multi-billion dollar acquisition of a high-end US communications equipment maker in two months.
