Team ASA, Inc.
Press Release
Seybold San Francisco 1999
August 25, 1999
For Immediate Release
Team ASA ships the first Macintosh OS X driver for its Stallion-GE-II
family of Gigabit Ethernet Adapters at Seybold 1999.
San Diego, CA — Team ASA Inc., manufacturer of high-performance networking
products for PrePress and Digital Media professionals, today begins
shipping the Macintosh OS X driver for its Stallion-GE-II family of
gigabit ethernet adapters. The driver implements a kernel loadable module
under recent releases of Macintosh OS X operating system.
Team ASA continues its tradition of being the first in the marketplace to
update its drivers to the latest Macintosh Operating System. “We are
already obtaining 14 Megabytes a second transfer rate out of our initial
Macintosh OS X driver” stated Mark Murray, President of Team ASA. “We
expect substantial improvement with the implementation of fat packets (9
K-Byte Jumbo Frames), which is expected in Q-4, 1999”, continued Murray.
About the Stallion-GE-II
The Stallion-GE-II is an advanced series of PCI Network Interface Cards
(NIC) utilizing the IEEE P802.3z specification for support of Gigabit
Ethernet. The Stallion-GE-II series are currently available with a fiber
interface, a copper interface will be available Q4-99. 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. The adapters carry a three year
warranty and are priced at $995.
About Team ASA, Inc.
Team ASA, Inc. designs, develops, and markets high speed cross-platform
networking communications solutions for Pre-Press and Multi-Media
professionals. Team ASA’s 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. In January of 1998 Team ASA
introduced the Stallion-GE, the first Gigabit ethernet adapters for both
Windows-NT and Power Macintosh computers. Team ASA also markets a line of
FDDI adapters for the Macintosh.
Team ASA is the exclusive North American distributor of MacServerIP, the
first AppleShare type server for Windows-NT to support the Apple File
Protocol over TCP/IP. MacServerIP is 2 to 4 times faster than Windows-NT
Services For Macintosh (SFM). MacServerIP users access the NT server via
the standard AppleShare IP interface.
For more information, please contact:
Press Contact: Josh Lampl
Team ASA, Inc.
10835 Corte Playa Majorca
San Diego, CA 92124-1185
(858) 279-2316 or fax (858) 292-1377
Email: Josh@TeamASA.com
URL: www.TeamASA.com