SMC has announced a series of new Fast Ethernet dual speed switches, hubs and fibre adapters, aimed at providing complete networking solutions for SOHO and SME( Small and Medium sized Enterprises) users, and to better serve SMC`s channel partners with effective price-performance products .
According to Greg Perkins, country manager of SMC SA the products are on average 25% cheaper than competitive products with equal functionality, ideal for smaller business networks on tight operating budgets.
The new products include the EZ Switch 10/100 with 8 and 16 port auto-negotiating switches, which are designed to offer lower cost, higher performance with simplicity. The EZ Card 10/100 is the first low cost 10/100 PCI Card with wide functionality in the market place. It supports ACPI, Remote LAN Wakeup, and optional BootROM for diskless PCs.
There are two new EZ Hub 10/100`s available in this product launch, the SMC5724DS and the SMC5604DS. The SMC5724DS is the first dual-speed hub with close-to-switch functionality.
It is also the first dual-speed hub in the market with 1.2Gbps bandwidth , which gives SMC5724DS an effective feature advantage to compete against other vendor`s dual-speed hubs with similar pricing. The SMC5604DS is compact 4-port dual-speed hub aimed at SOHO users demand for low cost and plug-and-play installation.
The final product is new EtherPower II 10/100 fibre card, which is a member of SMC`s EtherPower II 10/100 product family. It inherits the high performance nature of this family and also provides advanced features compared with other fibre cards in the market place.
The extra RJ-45 port protects the users investment, while the Remote LAN Wakeup gives IT managers an easy way to manage desktop PCs. The data throughput can be enhanced by SMC`s SimulTasking and Programmable InterPacket Gap technology.
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