Accton Launches Gigabit Ethernet card

Accton Technologies Corporation has launched their Cheetah
Gigabit Ethernet card in India. The cards are targeted at specific segments viz.
R&D labs, graphics and multimedia designers, ISPs, etc. that are high
bandwidth users. "Accton has recently become number one in Ethernet cards
in the Indian market. The launch of the Gigabit products is expected to further
strengthen our market share'', says Sanjay Kamat, AGM Marketing, Accton India,
The Cheetah card (technical name EN1408-T) is a high performance 32 bit card
that fits on PCI slots.

The product's advanced features such as VLAN tagging, eight
levels of priority to deliver desired quality of service, priority queuing, full
duplex control flow that ensures maximum data integrity even under heavy
loading, and jumbo frames capability to boost throughput by up to 300 percent.
The Cheetah card is compatible with Windows 2000, 98, 95, NT and ME along with
Netware and Linux. Says Milind Kamat, country manager, Accton India, "While
Gigabit cards have been available from some time, their high price has
restricted their usage to servers alone. But Accton is poised to break the price
barrier and make gigabit Ethernet affordable to the common user".