---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Third Party Product Announcements III SunFLASH Vol 41 #15 May 1992 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Networking Performance and Diagnostic Package SOFTWARE SAVINGS for SUN CUSTOMERS PTI SBus Comm Controller Supports New Sftwr Tools and Protocols -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: toms@qualix.com (Tom Stuart) Subject: Networking Performance and Diagnostic Package Qualix Group offers Network Performance and Diagnostic Bundle Sharpshooter and NetScope at a 33% savings (April 27, 1992) Qualix Group, Inc. is offering a solution for network performance tuning and diagnosis by bundling its NetScope diagnostic and troubleshooting software with Sharpshooter, the network performance monitoring and tuning software from AIM Technology. The list price for this bundle is $3,995 - a 33% savings from the combined list of the two products. In March, Qualix Group signed an agreement with AIM Technology adding Sharpshooter to the suite of network & system administration tools and utilities that Qualix offers network administrators. "Network troubleshooting and performance tuning are the two networks issues most frequently mentioned by administrators," said Tom Stuart director of product marketing for Qualix. "Qualix's position as a provider of solutions for network administration allows us to piece together the best products available and offer them, with our support, as a complete solution. The Sharpshooter/NetScope bundle is an example of this." A brief description of Sharpshooter and NetScope is included below: Sharpshooter Product Overview Sharpshooter enables network managers to monitor file server throughput to maximize NFS performance. It monitors NFS traffic by server, file system, and client. It identifies unexpected system usage, resource misuse, or load imbalances to help free NFS bandwidth on critical servers. Sharpshooter provides the graphical tools to monitor and tune other network services such as X Windows, Telnet, NIS, and RPC programs. Sharpshooter also manages distributed disk storage as a single resource. Managers can set network-wide quotas for disk usage and flag unplanned or excess usage. Sharpshooter also provides comprehensive storage utilization and trend reports to help manage disk capacity. * NFS monitoring Easily zoom down from server, to file system, to client to locate bottlenecks. * Telnet, NIS, RPC, and X Windows traffic monitoring * Graphs actual NFS reads and writes versus server capacity. * Pinpoints unused files by user for easy disk storage management NetScope Product Overview NetScope is a network diagnostic and troubleshooting tool that runs on Sun SPARC workstations. NetScope's easy-to-use charts and graphs give the network administrator the ability to easily see what is happening in their network to quickly pinpoint and fix network problems. NetScope can capture, filter and decode Ethernet packets; assess network utilization, check connectivity between hosts, generate packet streams, measure traffic intensity, and display them in ways that make analysis easy -- all without dedicated hardware. * Diagnostic and Troubleshooting Tools * Traffic filtering and display * Packet decoding * Connectivity checking * Always available because it is software only, and runs on any Sun workstation on the network. Qualix Group, Inc. Background Qualix markets and supports a suite of network and system administration software for UNIX workstations. Every product Qualix sells is supported by a staff of highly trained experts in Unix networking. All products are also backed by a money-back guarantee. Founded in 1990, Qualix Group, Inc. is located at 1900 South Norfolk Street, Suite 224, San Mateo, CA 94403; For more information about these or other products, or for a free copy of the Qualix Buyer's Guide, call (415) 572-0200 or (800) 245-UNIX. email: info@qualix.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Qualix Group Subject: SOFTWARE SAVINGS for SUN CUSTOMERS Qualix Group pleased to announce an exciting new program for Sun workstation customers: CHEAP SEATS This program lets you save up to 80% on the cost of basic software applications by purchasing a network quantity license. Here are the products and pricing: SPREADSHEET/DATA ANALYSIS: Lotus 1-2-3 (Lotus Development Corp.) ----------- 25 Floating licenses. . . . .$10,000! Qty 1 price = $695 ======== TEXT PROCESSING/DESKTOP PUBLISHING: Powerful text processing, page layout and graphics package. Object-oriented. On-line help. Includes filterpacks to UNIX desktop publishing packages. Avalon Publisher (Elan Computer Group, Inc.) ---------------- 50 Floating licenses. . . . $10,000! Qty 1 price = $995 ======== GROUP SCHEDULING: Schedule meetings, set agendas, monitor "to-do" list. New version includes address book capabilities. Synchronize (Crosswind Technologies, Inc.) ----------- 50 Licenses. . . . . . . . .$3,000! Qty 1 price = $100 ======= E-MAIL MANAGEMENT: Sorts, prioritizes, files and forwards Sun e-mails. Can attach sounds or mail agents to specially defined categories of mail. Personal Postmaster (MindWork, Inc.) ------------------- 50 Licenses. . . . . . . . . $2,500! Qty 1 price = $199 ======= DESKTOP PRESENTATIONS/GRAPHICS: Tools and images to create professional-quality illustrations, charts, and more. Over 5,000 clip art images. Arts & Letters Composer (Computer Support Corporation) ----------------------- 25 Floating licenses. . . . .$7,500! Qty 1 price = $495 All products are fully functional software packages and offer your users solutions to their productivity needs. With the prices listed above, you can actually equip your entire workgroup, network, or organizational users with the tools they need at EVEN LESS THAN THE COST OF COMPARABLE PC & MAC SOFTWARE! Please note this is an exclusive promotion of Qualix Group. For additional information on the products or the Cheap Seats program, call QUALIX GROUP at 1-800-245-UNIX or send e-mail to info@qualix. QUALIX GROUP 1900 So. Norfolk St. #224 San Mateo, CA 94403 Phone: 415/572-0200 or 1-800-245-UNIX Fax: 415/572-1300 E-mail: info@qualix -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dlt@pt.com (Don Turrell) Newsgroups: comp.newprod Subject: PTI SBus Comm Controller Supports New Sftwr Tools and Protocols Organization: Performance Technologies, Incorporated Performance Technologies Adds Comprehensive Communication Software Tools and Protocol Support to Its High Speed Synchronous SIO SBus Controllers For SPARCstations and SPARCservers Performance Technologies, Incorporated of Rochester, NY, USA has announced availability of a variety of new protocol and enabling software packages for high speed serial communication applications on SPARCstations and SPARCservers. The new software enhances the Company's line of intelligent high speed add-in Synchronous Serial I/O controllers for SBus. The software products include new low level SPARCstation compatible development tools for the SPARCstation, a unique STREAMS based Tool Kit with templates and a port of the well known SpiderX.25 software. The low level and STREAMS development software is specifically designed to provide a convenient, well documented environment for the OEM or Communication System Integrator who is porting communication protocols to the run on SPARCstation or SPARCserver platforms. The basic tools designed to operate with the Performance Technologies Model PT-SBS332 SIO Communication SBus controller encompass various loadable UNIX device drivers for a host running SunOS, a full Open Windows based debug/monitor (PTbug) as well as a collection of useful programs and utilities that interact with various functional elements of the PT-SBS332 controller. A STREAMS development and operating environment is supplied through the unique communication "ProtoKit" developed by UconX Corp., a third party organization that specializes in data communication products, training and support. The comprehensive and time saving ProtoKit includes an integrated set of functional elements with an extensive client Application Programming Interface (API), software development support tools, a STREAMS based executive (xSTRa) and Bisyn, HDLC and Asynchronous protocol templates. "ProtoKit" training and specialized communication protocol porting services are optionally available from UconX. The PT-SBS332 SBus communication controller is also available with a complete Spider Systems Ltd. X.25 port, including optional X.3, X.28, X.29 capability. The internationally recognized SpiderX.25 is reported by Dataquest to be the leading X.25 package being shipped by UNIX computer manufactures. The PTI SpiderX.25 port has been highly tuned to provide optimum performance and throughput with the onboard intelligence of the PT-SBS332 controller. The new software tools and protocols available through PTI have been optimized to make full use of the architecture of the PT- SBS332 High Speed Synchronous Controller hardware. This PTI product is an intelligent, high speed serial interface that operates as an add-in SBus option to expand the capability of SPARCstations, SPARCserver 600MPs and SPARCstation clones. The recently designed PT-SBS332 controller is based on the Company's experience with a well established line of high performance VMEbus Synchronous Serial I/O products used by many major OEMs. The microprocessor based PT-SBS332 is built on an architecture which includes the Zilog Z16C35 Integrated Serial Communication Controller (ISCC) and a Motorola MC68340 Integrated Processor. The dual channel Z16C35 is software compatible with the popular Z85C30 found in thousands of serial I/O applications. The MC68340 CPU, coupled to 2 MBytes of onboard memory is specifically architected to deal with the real time nature of high speed communications. This design eliminates the shortcomings of a non-intelligent SBus SIO module which relies on the SPARCstation to service all the low level communication functions. The PT-SBS332 supports communication rates up to T1/E1 on both ports. The PT-SBS332 utilizes PTI's Line Adapter Board (LAB) concept to provide user flexibility in meeting a variety of communication interfaces. By interchanging LABs, the controller can support EIA-232C, EIA-422/530, Mil Std 188C/114, or V.35 line standards. The UconX ProtoKit from Performance Technologies is priced at a one time charge of $5000/site. Pricing for the SpiderX.25 protocol software is due to be released in April when the port completes certification. The PT-SBS332 controller platform with a EIA-232C line interface is priced at $1395. Performance Technologies designs, manufactures and markets a variety of products for SBus, VMEbus, VERSAbus, Qbus and Multibus I. The Company has sales offices throughout North America and is represented by agents throughout the world. Contact: Don Turrell Performance Technologies, Incorporated Computer Products Division 315 Science Parkway Rochester, NY 14620 USA Tel: (716) 256-0200 FAX: (716) 256-0791 wpg@pt.com Performance Technologies acknowledges that the product and company names mentioned in this document are the trademarks or registered tradenames of their respective holders. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ For information send mail to info-sunflash@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. 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