Server-Strength AT-2970T 1000Base-T NIC minimizes CPU utilization, maximizes network speed, and secures network up-time with optional port redundancy .

November 27, 2000- Allied Telesyn International (www.alliedtelesyn.com), a worldwide leader in simplifying IP networking for businesses of all sizes, today announced the newest in its line of flexible, reliable, high-performance, networking tools - the AT-2970T series Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapters. This introduction presents yet another strong addition to the company's product lines, and further demonstrates Allied Telesyn's commitment to high-speed, highly reliable networking products. Optimized to support both 64bit/66MHz PCI and 32bit/33MHz PCI bus systems, the AT-2970T 1000Base-T adapter utilizes a highly-advanced and efficient ASIC that enables support for true 64-bit wide throughput between the Gigabit Ethernet MAC interface and the PCI bus. This ensures complete compatibility and maximum performance while reducing CPU utilization for Gigabit throughput, Gigabit performance and Gigabit reliability.

"Allied Telesyn is entering the Gigabit-over-copper market at a time when demand for the technology is increasing," said Melvyn Wray, Allied Telesyn's Senior Vice President of Corporate Marketing. "By delivering a best-of-breed solution to high-end Gigabit connectivity, Allied Telesyn is bringing to the market precisely what it needs and at a price point that meets a growing expectation for improved price/performance."

Companies that depend on their networks need performance and reliability - the AT-2970T has features designed to ensure the best of both. Because time spent transferring data to and from the network is time taken away from applications, the AT-2970T was designed specifically to minimize demands on the CPU, so that the CPU is free for other tasks. To keep mission-critical networks up and running, the AT-2970 series offers a dual port version, the AT-2970T2, that delivers full service on one port, and keeps its second port active as a redundant link which takes over full service - automatically - in the event of a cable, port or switch failure. Its limited lifetime warranty further demonstrates the reliability of the AT-2970T.

These new high-performance server adapters support the 64bit/66MHz PCI bus bandwidth specification of 533MBps. At speeds four times that of conventional 32-bit systems, the full-duplex AT-2970 will never be the bottleneck, and compatibility with 32-bit systems is ensured through dual address cycle mode. In addition, both the single and dual port AT-2970 adapters allow 64-bit addressing in a single cycle to address more than 4 GB of RAM - a huge performance-enhancing feature in itself.