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HP Joins 10-Gigabit Ethernet Alliance
Alliance to Benefit from HP's Development Leadership and Expertise with Industry-standard Technologies
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 17, 2000 -- Hewlett-Packard Company today announced that it is a charter member of the recently formed 10-Gigabit Ethernet Alliance.
The 10-Gigabit Ethernet Alliance is an open industry consortium dedicated to the development and promotion of next-generation Ethernet technology for Local Area Network (LAN), Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN) markets. Other alliance members include 3Com, Cisco Systems, Extreme Networks, Intel, Lucent Technologies, Nortel Networks, Sun Microsystems and Worldwide Packets.
"With the rise of the Internet, e-commerce, and e-business applications, HP understands the increasing needs enterprise and metropolitan customers have for more network bandwidth," said John McHugh, general manager of ProCurve Networking by HP. "As a charter member of the 10-Gigabit Ethernet Alliance, HP can contribute to the critical development of next-generation Ethernet technology. 10-Gigabit Ethernet will provide customers with the high bandwidth, simplicity of deployment and lower infrastructure costs they require for today's and tomorrow's applications."
HP has always taken a leadership position in developing new Ethernet technologies. HP demonstrated a 10-Gigabit transceiver prototype from HP Labs two years ago at the spring Networld+Interop trade show in Las Vegas. HP was also the first company to ship a copper Gigabit Ethernet switch module last October.
A natural extension of Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet, 10-Gigabit Ethernet in LAN applications will allow network managers to increase their network bandwidth from 10 megabits per second (Mbps) to 10,000 Mbps. They will achieve this performance while leveraging their existing Ethernet infrastructure and protecting their initial capital investment. ProCurve Networking by HP plans to introduce 10-Gigabit Ethernet connectivity to its LAN infrastructure products.
In addition, 10-Gigabit Ethernet further adds to the HP 9000 Enterprise Server family's ability to provide HP's next-generation data center, the E-serviceCenter, with instant global connectivity. With 10-Gigabit Ethernet capability, E-serviceCenters will provide Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Application Service Providers (ASPs) and Network Service Providers with the connection speed, bandwidth and simplicity they need to efficiently support the ever-increasing technological requirements of the Internet economy.
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About the 10-Gigabit Ethernet Alliance
The 10-Gigabit Ethernet Alliance was organized to facilitate and accelerate the introduction of 10-Gigabit Ethernet into the networking market. Additionally, the alliance will support the activities of the IEEE 802.3ae (10-Gigabit Ethernet) standard and promote interoperability among 10-Gigabit Ethernet products.
About HP
Hewlett-Packard Company -- a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services for business and home -- is focused on capitalizing on the opportunities of the Internet and the proliferation of electronic services.
HP announced that it will spin off Agilent Technologies and distribute its shares of Agilent on June 2, 2000 to HP shareowners of record as of May 2, 2000. Agilent consists of HP's test and measurement, semiconductor products, chemical analysis and healthcare solutions businesses.
HP has 85,400 employees worldwide and had total revenue from continuing operations of $42.4 billion in its 1999 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products visit the HP Site.
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