sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sunflash@suntri sunflash-Send requests and problem reports to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Third Party Announcements SunFLASH Vol 53 #26 May 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary 53.26.A Finnish ATM Pilot Network In Operation First commercial ATM pilot service begins in Finland 53.26.B Aurora Brings PC Market Prices to Workstation Industry SBus Product Cuts Up to 50% Prices on SPARC system expansion also lowered. 53.26.C InSoft: Full Featured ConferenceStation For Under $9,000 ConferenceStation includes Sun Classic, Communique! S/W and camera 53.26.D ISDN Catalog Ordering Information This article is from comp.dcom.isdn. It describes a catalog of 34 solutions fully implementable on the National ISDN - 1 platform ftp and US mail instructions are included 53.26.E Solaris 2.X Support for Performance Computer SBus Products SBus cards supported include SCSI-2 Wide/FAST Adapters 53.26.F Box Hill Systems Corporation Reduces Raid Box Prices The RAID Box is a Level 5 RAID Disk Array Subsystem 53.26.G MAGMA's CRUSHER: A Compressed File System for Solaris Automatic 1.7:1 to 2.5:1 transparent file compression 53.26.H Virus Scanning Software for Heterogeneous Networks Scans for viruses that effect non-UNIX PCs attached to a UNIX LAN Prevent UNIX hosts from being unaffected carriers of computer viruses for other platforms such as MS-DOS or Macs -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Details -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Finnish ATM Pilot Network In Operation From: vesa@Finland (Vesa Wallden) Contact: Vesa Wallden Marketing Manager Org: Sun Microsystems Oy Address: P.O. Box 104, Kutojantie 7 02631 Espoo Finland Tel: 358-0-525 561 Fax: 358-0-525 562 52 Email: Vesa.Wallden@Finland.Sun.COM Europe moves to broadband Tampere Finland May 3, 1993. Telecom Finland, Tampere University of Technology and Finnish University and Research Network, FUNET, today put the Finnish ATM pilot network into operational use. The network initially interconnects ATM LANs of the participants in Tampere and Helsinki metropolitan areas, the distance being about 200km. The pilot network provides a living testbed for ATM service provision and a development platform for the next generation computer applications, where the use of visual information is playing the key role. The driving force behind the Finnish ATM R&D project is the rapidly increasing use of voice and video in various computer applications, such as workstation based video conferencing. These applications not only require high network bandwidth, but also low and predictable delays. ATM satisfies the requirements by transferring data extremely fast in small, fixed length packets, called cells. In early 1994, the Finnish ATM pilot network will be connected to the European wide ATM pilot network by 13 European Telecommunications operators giving the participants an international ATM access. Telecom Finland announces the first commercial ATM pilot service in the World The wide area portion of the ATM pilot network is provided by Telecom Finland as part of its simultaneously announced ATM pilot service. In developing ATM technology Telecom Finland is preparing for the future needs of its customers in multimedia environments and high speed LAN interconnection. "The ATM pilot network gives Telecom Finland an excellent opportunity to develop ATM into a high-capacity platform for high-quality network services," said Dr. Juha Heinanen, Telecom Finland's director for advanced network technologies. "The experience gained from the pilot network will guarantee that the use of ATM in a production environment in early 1994 will fully match the needs of our extremely sophisticated customer base," added Juha Heinanen. Finnish research tackles multimedia networking and ATM technology The Finnish research behind the pilot network is organized by FASTER program at Tampere University of Technology in co-operation with several Finnish telecommunication companies, teleoperators and research centers. The FASTER task force includes telecommunication researchers, mathematicians and specialists in digital signal processing, electronics and software engineering. Tampere University of Technology implemented ATM campus network and interfaces to wide area portion as part of the Finnish pilot. "For us the pilot network is a platform where we can test new ATM related concepts and applications in practise", said Research Scientist Mr. Mika Uusitalo from Tampere University of Technology. The experimental applications of the FASTER program have special focus on multimedia. They include applications such as realtime audio visual communication, distributed design and medical imaging. Finland's fastest supercomputer located at Tampere University of Technology will also be connected with high-speed ATM link in June. According to Mika Uusitalo, "We already have advanced knowledge and practical experience in ATM. The Finnish companies now have a real competitive edge in developing new ATM related products, applications and services". ATM will implement "Meta-Computer Finland" FUNET provides research network services to all Finnish universities. In participating in the ATM pilot network FUNET wants to gather invaluable information and experience about ATM, a promising candidate for the high bandwith and real-time compliment network of the next generation. "By means of the ATM network it is possible to implement a "Meta-Computer Finland", a concept of equal and consistent computational services all over the country and independent of physical location of computers", said Mr. Markus Sadeniemi, director of FUNET. "High-speed data communication facilities are today vital to the research community. ATM provides the researchers with much needed bandwidth and allows them to exploit visualization in computer applications no matter where data sources are located." Netcomm provides switches According to Netcomm's International Business Manager David Wells, "This application, demonstrates the potential of ATM in the wide area as well as the local area environment. In the current Finnish pilot configuration, all switches have plenty of room for expansion. I believe this illustrates the flexibility and efficacy of Netcomm's DV2 Switch in a situation where ATM is being implemented to supplement the service available through existing LAN and WAN technologies". For further information: Juha Heinanen, Director of Advanced Network Technologies, Telecom Finland, Tel: +358 31 2432249, Fax: +358 31 2432211, Mika Uusitalo, Research Scientist, Tampere University of Technology, Tel: +358 31 3162429, Fax: +358 31 3162172 Markus Sadeniemi, Director, FUNET, Tel: +358 0 457 2711, Fax: +358 0 457 2302 David Wells, International Business Manager Netcomm Limited, Tel: +44 (0)268 534228, Fax: +44 (0) 268 534160 Editor's note: Telecom Finland is Europe's leading public data communications operator. It pioneered the multiprotocol routing service and was the first European operator to deliver a Frame Relay service in 1991. Telecom Finland is a member of the ATM Forum. Tampere University of Technology has been a pioneer in researching and using new communication network technologies in Finland. For example the first European FDDI network was build in the campus area already in 1989. The research on telecommunication is mainly focused on signal processing and software systems applied on digital networks and multimedia. FUNET is a non-profit public organization sponsored by the Ministry of Education and providing domestic and international network services for it's members consisting of universities and research institutions. Today FUNET connects over 20 000 computers Netcomm is UK manufacturer of high performance X.25/Frame Relay Switches, Network Management Systems and ATM switches. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Aurora Brings PC Market Prices to Workstation Industry From: balasco@auratek.com (Alfred P. Balasco) Org: Aurora Technologies, Inc. Contact: Al Balasco Marketing Communications Phone: (617) 290-4800 With SBus Product Cuts Up to 50% Prices on SPARC system expansion starting as low as $149 Waltham, MA, May 11, 1993, -- Aurora Technologies, the largest volume third-party manufacturer of SBus products, today announced price reductions of up to 50% on its SBus expansion product family. The new prices, starting as low as $149, provide more cost-accessible SPARC system expansion options for end-users, and gives value added resellers and systems integrators an advantage in developing custom solutions. The general workstation industry trend toward lower prices and greater demand from commercial users more accustomed to the commodity-like pricing of the PC industry contributed to Aurora's new pricing strategy. Aurora's service and support programs - unlimited telephone support, overnight swap service, and free software updates - remain covered by warranty without additional cost. The new prices, listed below, take effect June 1, 1993: Product Description New Price Old Price MM10S Single Centronics parallel port 149.00 295.00 MM20S Dual Centronics parallel port 299.00 595.00 MM210S 2 Serial ports, 1 Centronics parallel port 299.00 495.00 MM420S 4 Serial ports, 2 Centronics parallel ports 499.00 695.00 MM400S 4 Intelligent async serial ports 499.00 795.00 MM800S 8 Intelligent async serial ports 699.00 995.00 MM1600SE 16 Intelligent async serial ports 1199.00 1495.00 MM6400S 64 Intelligent async serial ports 5999.00 NA MM12800S 128 Intelligent async serial ports 9999.00 NA MM400SX 4 Large buffer, async DMA serial ports 799.00 995.00 MM800SX 8 Large buffer, async DMA serial ports 1099.00 1295.00 SBox 4 SBus slots from 1 host slots 1499.00 1995.00 plus room for 2 SCSI devices Dual SBox 8 SBus slots from 1 host slots 2499.00 2995.00 plus room for 4 SCSI devices Dennis Daudelin, Aurora Technologies president, said, "The computer industry in general is undergoing a tremendous change spurred by growing price- sensitivity. With the wider mainstream acceptance of RISC and UNIX-based systems as viable and more powerful client-server alternatives, pricing models are being adjusted appropriately. With workstations like the Sun SPARCclassic in the sub-$4000 range, users want to pay less for peripherals and system expansion. Greater demand and improved manufacturing techniques have allowed us to meet these needs with significantly lower prices. "At these prices, customers still receive the highest-quality, best performing boards with the top-level support Aurora's tens of thousands of users are used to," Daudelin said. Aurora Technologies, Inc., engineers, manufactures, and markets a complete range of workstation performance enhancement and expansion products that provide the foundation for business-wide open systems solutions based on the SPARC architecture. These products include SBus terminal and peripheral servers, system expansion products, networking communications products, and imaging and OCR software. Aurora products are designed to offer users, resellers, and OEMs broad functionality and easy systems integration. Founded in 1988 by members of Sun Microsystems' marketing and engineering teams, Aurora is a member of SPARC International and a Strategic level member of Sun's third-party developer Catalyst program. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: InSoft: Full Featured ConferenceStation For Under $9,000 Contact: Mary Ellen L. Walker Keith Wimberley InSoft Marketing Technology mel@insoft.com MCI Mail: 575-4285 717-730-9501 908-409-3669 --- Targets Expanding Desktop Videoconferencing Market with Multiplatform, Interoperable Solution based on Communique! Multimedia Teleconferencing Software. --- Mechanicsburg, PA, April 22, 1993 -- InSoft, Inc., is making an aggressive entry into the desktop videoconferencing market with its announcement of a fully configured, turnkey ConferenceStation priced under $9,000. Based on Sun Microsystems' Classic workstation and InSoft's Communique! multimedia teleconferencing software, the new ConferenceStation allows users to run real-time, full motion color videoconferencing in heterogeneous UNIX environments and across data communication services such as ISDN, Frame Relay, ATM, SMDS, FDDI and Switched 56. In addition to videoconferencing, Communique! provides multimedia and groupware facilities such as a shared whiteboard. Users can interactively display and mark-up documents, drawings, video frames or images from any online application and discuss them naturally. Dan Harple, president of InSoft, said, "Lower cost equipment and more flexible data communications services will certainly make videoconferencing a cost-justifiable technology. But more importantly, the market needs solutions that adhere to an open systems standard, from the desktop workstation to the video board and on through specific data communications services. ConferenceStation is exactly that solution, and it will drive the market given its ability to be fully interoperable in a multiplatform environment." The heart of ConferenceStation is feature-rich Communique!, an integrated set of multimedia and groupware software modules including the Virtual Conference Room(TM), Communique!TV(TM), Audio, Video, Shared Whiteboard, Shared Writeboard, Information Exchange, Text and Graphics. It employs an icon-based point and click, drag and drop user interface. ConferenceStation can be configured with either a Sun VideoPix SBus card, RasterOp's SPARC TV II SBus card or Parallax Graphics' XVideo-24SV board. An 8mm camera and high-quality Audio Technica microphone are included. Based on a 50MHz Sun SPARC Classic workstation, ConferenceStation will ship with Solaris 2.x and a minimum of 24 Mb of RAM, 424 Mb of disk, and a 16" high resolution color monitor. The base list price for one to four stations is $8995 per station with floating network licensing. ConferenceStation will be available for shipment May 1993. "InSoft's Digital Video Everywhere (DVE) technology, coupled with Communique!'s open systems approach to workgroup conferencing, allows ConferenceStation to play in multiplatform environments," said Harple. "Workgroup collaboration and videoconferencing are no longer hardware specific. There is no board or network service dependence, and having just completed our port to HP's Series 700 workstation, and with ports in progress to IBM's RS/6000 and SGI, we are well positioned to take multimedia videoconferencing to the desktop today." InSoft will continue to unbundle its Communique! software separately from the fully configured ConferenceStation. It is available as a software-only solution on supported platforms or as part of InSoft's ConferenceKit, which includes the 8mm camera and high-quality microphone along with Communique!. InSoft is a worldwide leader in the technology and sales of multimedia conferencing and networking software solutions. InSoft markets its products directly and through value-added resellers, and has customers doing work in engineering, medical, legal, educational, telecommunications, and government information management, as well as many other industries. InSoft, Inc., is headquartered at Executive Park West One, Suite 307, 4718 Old Gettysburg Road, Mechanicsburg, PA, 17055; 717-730-9501; Fax: 717-730-9504; e -mail; info@insoft.com. InSoft is a registered trademark and Communique!, Communique!TV and Virtual Conference Room are trademarks of InSoft, Inc. All other trade names, products and services are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: ISDN Catalog Ordering Information From: srogers@tad.eds.com (Steve Rogers) Newsgroups: comp.archives Archive-name: auto/comp.dcom.isdn/ISDN-Catalog-Ordering-Information North American ISDN Users' Forum Catalog of ISDN Applications "A Catalog of National ISDN Solutions for Selected NIUF Applications" was approved by the North American ISDN Users' Forum (NIUF) Plenary in February 1993. The catalog provides a user-friendly description of 34 solutions fully implementable on the National ISDN - 1 platform and 4 PRI based solutions implementable in a proprietary manner in NI-1 or in a standard manner in NI-2. It also contains the most complete compendium to date of available National ISDN-1 terminal equipment. Fully more than 120 products from 60 suppliers are described in the document. The Catalog takes a "cookbook" approach. A brief description of the application is followed by a recipe of what type of equipment the user needs to purchase along with what type of service the user needs to order from his or her local service provider. The solutions are cross-referenced to suppliers who claim to support them with equipment. This allows the user to readily pursue the implementation of his or her critical applications. In addition, the Catalog provides technical notes and hints for implementation of the National ISDN based solutions. "A Catalog of National ISDN Solutions for Selected NIUF Applications" can be ordered from the National Technical Information Services (see below) or you can download the catalog by anonymous ftp as follows: ftp isdn.ncsl.nist.gov User name: anonymous passwd: "you can type any password" cd niucatalog dir get "filename of the file you want" File niudoc.sit.hqx and niudoc.sit are the same files, but niudoc.sit.hqx is a bin hex file. .sit, .cdr, and .niu files must be downloaded as binary files. The catalog was produced on a Macintosh with Microsoft Word 4.0. The .cdr and .niu files were created with CorelDraw and WordPerfect 5.1. Before printing the Macintosh file, you need to "unpack" the file. This is done by using a Shareware package called, sit or unsit. This package can be found on the following machine: WUARCHIVE.WUSTL.EDU ftp wuarchive.wustl.edu User name: anonymous passwd: "your user@machine" directory: mirrors/rascal.ics.utexas.edu/compression file: stuffit_1.5.1 If you have questions or problems with the document please contact: Dawn Hoffman National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) North American ISDN Users' Forum (NIUF) Secretariat Bldg 223, Rm. B364 Gaithersburg, MD 20899 301-975-2937 FAX: 301-926-9675 email: dawn@isdn.ncsl.nist.gov To order a paper or fiche copy of the catalog, please contact: National Technical Information Services 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield, VA 22161 General Information: 703-487-4650 Ordering Information: 1-800-553-6847 FAX: 703-321-8547 NTIS Order Number PB93-162881 Hard Copy: $44.50 Microfiche: $17.50 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Solaris 2.X Support for Performance Computer SBus Products From: dlt@pt.com (Don Turrell) Contact: Martin McFadden Org: Performance Computer, A Performance Technologies Company Address: 315 Science Parkway Rochester, NY 14620 USA Tel: 716-256-0200 Fax: 716-256-0791 Email: wpg@pt.com The Performance Computer Group of Performance Technologies, Incorporated announced support of its broad SBus products under Sun's Solaris 2.1 Operating System. This new OS support covers a variety of the Company's SBus product offering. Included on this list are: ----------------------------------- SBus SCSI-2 Narrow/FAST Adapters (Models PT-SBS430 and PT-SBS430A) The Solaris 2.1 support extends across all Sun platforms from Classic/IPX at the low end to the SPARCenter 1000/2000 at the high end. These Performance Computer add-in SCSI Adapters include both Single-ended and Differential SCSI interfaces. ----------------------------------- SBus SCSI-2 Wide/FAST Adapters (Model PT-SBS440) This is the FIRST 20 MBytes/sec SCSI Wide Adapter available for SBus users. The product includes full 2.X driver support. As with the PT-SBS430 Narrow/ FAST SCSI adapter above, the new Wide/FAST adapter is available with both Single-ended and Differential interfaces to SCSI peripherals. ----------------------------------- Combined SBus SCSI-2 & Twisted Pair Ethernet (Model PT-SBS550) This product provides both SCSI FAST/Narrow and twisted pair Ethernet capabilities in one SBus slot. The Model PT-SBS550 SCSI-2/Ethernet module operates in the Sun4c (IPX, IPC, SS2) and Sun4m single processor (Classic, LX, SS10/30) architectures under Solaris 2.X. ----------------------------------- Serial/Parallel I/O (Models PT-SBS530 and PT-SBS515) The PT-SBS530 (4 Serial I/O Ports) and the PT-SBS515 (3 Serial I/O Ports and 1 Parallel Port) both will operate with the Solaris 2.1 OS in all Sun platforms. ----------------------------------- SBus-to-VMEbus Adapter (Model PT-SBS915) In conjunction with Sun Microsystems, Performance Computer has developed a 'plug and play' Solaris 2.X driver for the Company's PT-SBS915 SBus-to- VMEbus adapter series. The PT-SBS915 Solaris 2.X driver support allows users who have converted their VMEbus driver to Solaris 2.X to utilize the SBus-to-VMEbus Adapter with a high degree of transparency. The Solaris 2.X PT-SBS915 software is one of the first Third Party "bus nexus" drivers for Solaris 2.X. All Performance Computer products will be delivered in the future with both Solaris 1.X (SunOS 4.1.x) and Solaris 2.X software support at no increase in price to the user. Any of the listed products which are currently in use at customers sites and under the original warranty period of 1 year (or are on extended warranty/support contracts) can obtain Solaris 2.1 drivers at no cost by contacting the Performance Computer Group of Performance Technologies. Performance Technologies designs, manufactures and markets a variety of products and systems for SBus, VMEbus, VERSAbus, Qbus and Multibus. The Company has sales offices and distributors across North America and is represented by agents throughout the world. Performance Computer acknowledges that the product and company names mentioned in this document are the trademarks or registered tradenames of their respective holders. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Box Hill Systems Corporation Reduces Raid Box Prices From: info@boxhill.com Org: Box Hill Systems Corporation Address: 161 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10013 Phone: (212) 989-4455 or (800) 727-3863 email: sales@boxhill.com --SoHo New York, May 11, 1993 -- Box Hill Systems Corporation, a leading developer of high-availability UNIX storage solutions and network backup products, today announced an aggressive pricing structure for the RAID Box, a Level 5 RAID Disk Array Subsystem. Effective immediately, prices for the company's 4GB, 6GB, 8GB, 10GB, and 12 GB RAID Boxes have been reduced. The new price is as low as $3.50 per MB. The RAID Box is a high-performance, plug-and-play disk array subsystem that supports Sun, HP 9000, IBM RS/6000, and NeXT UNIX workstation and server platforms. Designed to meet the needs of mission-critical applications, the RAID Box features hot-swappable drives that eliminate downtime from disk failures and supports the FAST SCSI-2 interface. It is available in flexible configurations that provide storage capacity from 4 GB to 12 GB in a choice of compact table-top or rack-mount packaging. "This new pricing makes the Box Hill RAID Box the most cost-effective disk array subsystem available for the UNIX market," said Carol Turchin at Box Hill Systems. With this announcement, Box Hill Systems Corporation is reinforcing its commitment to provide high-availability storage solutions at an unparalleled value to meet the increased needs of the UNIX market where maximum uptime is critical to daily business operations. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: MAGMA's CRUSHER: A Compressed File System for Solaris Contact: Michael Seidel Phone: (800) 285-8990 (619) 457-0750 FAX: (619) 457-0798 email: sales@magma.com CRUSHER is a new file system type that provides users the capability to create compressed partitions on any disk drive. Data written to or read from the partition will be automatically compressed/decompressed transparently on-the-fly. The compressed files appear in all respects identical to UFS files. CRUSHER typically delivers a 2:1 compression ratio. CRUSHER supports all file types, including directories, executables, plain file, links, sockets, mapped files, mail and files from custom applications. All system administration tools, programming languages, office productivity tools and CAD programs will operate in concert with CRUSHER. CRUSHER will operate with Open Windows, Motif, X Windows and other GUIs. Tests show that SPARC executables compress at a 1.7:1 ratio, /usr/openwin compresses at a 2.1:1 ratio and data files usually compress above 2.5:1. Installation is simple using an automatic installation script. No kernel reconfiguration or recompiling of programs is necessary. CRUSHER is a true UNIX file system that only operates on the data being used, not a application that selectively compresses and decompresses entire files. At no time is it necessary to have a space wasting uncompressed version of a file hanging around on your disk. CRUSHER is priced at $189. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Virus Scanning Software for Heterogeneous Networks From: bcoll@qualix.com (Barbara Coll) Org: Qualix Group, Inc. Phone: 1-800-245-UNIX 1-415-572-0200 fax: 1-415-572-1300 Address: 1900 S. Norfolk St., #224 San Mateo, CA 94403 e-mail: info@qualix.com VFind Now Available to the Non-government Market "Virus Scanning Software for Heterogeneous Environments" ---------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------ VFind -- Scans for UNIX, MS-DOS, Macintosh and Amiga destructive software on your UNIX system -- Locates know viruses and other problems such as trojan horses, worms, and logic bombs -- can search entire disk drives and across all NFS networks -- has a tape scanning capability that can scan removable media prior to use or shipment -- can be programmed to scan for keywords like "Top Secret" or other confidential phrases Viruses have been observed infecting non-UNIX PCs attached to a heterogeneous network. The viruses came from the UNIX workstations but the UNIX systems were not the original point of entry for the viruses. The viruses were dormant while on the UNIX nodes and became harmful when they migrated to their target system. The UNIX systems acted as unaffected carriers of computer viruses for other platforms. VFind would prevent this situation. In addition to the situation described above there are several other types of harmful software that are native to and targeted against UNIX systems, including: trojan horses, logic bombs, and worms. Worms require an extensive amount of programming and are not considered an immediate threat. Trojan horses appear to be performing desired processing while creating damage. They are spread by unsuspecting users who copy them in order to take advantage of their userfulness. Logic bombs, or time bombs, are simple programs that wait for an event to occur, such as midnight, and then damage the system. VFind would detect these viruses. Specifications -------------- * VFind is available for 20 UNIX systems including: Sun, IBM, SCO, DG, DEC * It is recommended that VFind be executed at night due to the CPU usage * Recommended memory 12 MB * Minimal disk space required Evaluations ----------- 30-day evaluations of VFind are available from Qualix, free of charge. Please call Qualix to order your eval today. More information on VFind is available from the Qualix mail server by sending the following to qfacts@qualix.com BEGIN send vfind.info send index ; if you want more info on the Mail Server contents send comp.virus.faq ; if you want more info on computer viruses in general END Pricing ------- Quantity Pricing Desktop Pricing: 1-9 desktops $395.00 for each desktop 10-20 desktops $340.00 for each desktop Server Pricing: Small (up to 20 clients) 1-5 servers $795 for each server 6-20 servers $595 for each server Large (up to 250 clients)1-5 servers $1595 for each server 6-20 servers $1295 for each server Site Licenses - negotiable at >20 servers Support - Upgrades to the product are frequent in order to keep up to date with all of the viruses plaguing the industry. Support pricing is 20% of sale price/year. 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