Packet Introduces Repeater New Product Helps To Link High-Speed Computer Networks

Packet Engines has introduced another product in its efforts to become a key player in the emerging technology of super-high-speed computer networks.

The Spokane company is ready to market the FDR12 repeater.

The device is a central component in linking computers into a network capable of moving information at the rate of 1 billion bits per second. Not only does it link the high-speed components together but also allows slower 10 megabit and 100 megabit components to be incorporated into the same network.

“This will provide a seamless connection from the older generation network to the new higher bandwidth network” said Octavio Morales, director of product management at Packet Engines.

Packet Engines produces products and intellectual property for the “gigabit ethernet” market. Ethernet is the name given to one of several technologies that link computers into networks. Packet Engine’s founder and president, Bernard Daines, was instrumental in the ‘70s and ‘80s in creating products that made ethernet the technology of choice in the computer networking industry.

Now, with Packet Engines, Daines is trying to do the same thing as computer networks make the leap from today’s standard of moving information at 100 megabits per second to 1,000 megabits - or one gigabit.

If Packet Engine’s technology wins out as the industry standard, the profit potential for the company would be enormous.

Among the companies competing within the gigabit ethernet approach, Daines says Packet Engines is the leader.

“By June of this year, customers will be able to create gigabit ethernet networks entirely with Packet Engines products,” Daines said.

Earlier this year Packet Engines introduced a network interface card as its initial piece of gigabit ethernet hardware.

, DataTimes