February 8, 1999
For Immediate Release
From: Mark Murray
(619) 279-2316
Email: markm@TeamASA.com
Next Generation Gigabit Ethernet Offers higher performance for Power Macintosh
San Diego, CA -- Team ASA Inc., manufacturer of high-performance
networking products for PrePress and Digital Media professionals,
today announced its second generation Gigabit Ethernet adapter. The
Stallion-GE-II is a new high performance line of Gigabit Ethernet
Network Interface Cards (NIC) for Power Macintosh based platforms.
These NICs bundled with Team ASAs PDQ software provides a high speed
cross-platform file transfer solution for professionals transferring
large multi-megabyte files across their computer network, saving time
and money in daily production operations.
The new Stallion-GE-II is an advanced series of PCI Network
Interface Cards (NIC) utilizing the IEEE P802.3z specification for
support of 1 Gigabit Ethernet. The Stallion-GE-II series will be
available with a fiber interface, a copper interface will be
available Q2-99. As with all Stallion adapters, the Stallion-GE-II
comes with Power Macintosh and PDQ Protocol drivers. Stallion-GE-II
drivers for Windows-NT, Solaris, and Novell Netware based platforms
are also available.
Most manufacturers are just introducing their first generation
efforts for the Macintosh, the second generation Stallion-GE-II
offers improved performance and efficiency said Mark Murray
President of Team ASA, Inc. The Stallion-GE-II significantly raises
the performance ante. The Stallion-GE-II is powered by onboard dual
32 bit RISC processors and can be configured for Fat Packets to
optimize transmit and receive paths. Mark Murray continued, The
high performance Stallion-GE-II when coupled with Team ASAs high
speed protocol PDQ provides the highest performance network available
on any Power Macintosh today
We need to produce 110,000 plates for printing a year said Tony
Wallace of R. R. Donnelly and Sons an existing Team ASA Customer.
Right now only about 30% of those are direct to plate, Team ASAs
Gigabit Ethernet solution makes it possible to do 100% of this work
in digital domain continued Wallace.
The suggested retail price for the Stallion-GE Gigabit Ethernet
adapter is $1,495.00 which includes the Team ASA Open Transport, and
PDQ Express high speed cross platform file transfer application. The
Stallion-GE-II is due for release in early January, 1999. You can
contact Team ASA at www.teamasa.com.
About Team ASA, Inc.
Since 1992, Team ASA, Inc. has designed, developed, and marketed high
speed networking communications solutions for Pre-Press and
Multi-Media professionals. Team ASAs products increase the
productivity of professional users working with large files in
networked environments. Team ASA solves the common problem of long
time delays when sending large multi-megabyte digital files across a
network. Team ASAs flagship product, PDQTM Protocol easily and
affordably completes these transfers in seconds instead of minutes,
freeing up the professionals to work on other projects and speeding
up daily workflows. PDQ supports Macintosh OS (Client/Server),
Windows NT (Server), Silicon Graphics (Server), Sun SPARC (Server),
and Novell (Server). It is the only truly high speed cross-platform
file transfer utility available For more information, please contact:
Contact: Mark Murray
Team ASA
10835 Corte Playa Majorca
San Diego, CA 92124-1185
(619) 279-2316 or fax 292-1377
Email: Markm@TeamASA.com
URL: www.TeamASA.com
