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- Dayton, Ohio (April 13, 1992) -- Due to a 275 percent increase in unit
- sales, Systran Corp. announced today dramatic price cuts for interfaces to
- its SCRAMNet real-time network. The new lower pricing is a result of new
- levels of efficiency in purchasing, production, sales and support. In
- addition, three years of product maturity means almost no field
- engineering support is required to solve operational problems common to
- newly released designs. The result is a savings of up to 22 percent for
- the company's most popular U.S. product, and up to 35 percent for
- international products.
-
- Said W. Lynn Trainor, president of Systran, "These significant price
- reductions, a result of our success in the simulation, data acquisition,
- process control, telemetry and instrumentation markets, will further
- increase SCRAMNet's position as de facto standard for real-time system
- interconnects. "
-
- For the company's most popular U.S. product, the interface to open-chassis
- VME backplane busses, prices have been cut by 22 percent. Additional
- discounts of up to 25 percent are available through volume purchase
- programs. Systran customers can also now enjoy increased purchasing
- flexibility; for example, they now have the option to purchase cabinet
- kits separately from interfaces.
-
- SCRAMNet Designed for Simplicity, Speed
-
- SCRAMNet, the leading real-time distributed network, is optimized for
- simplicity and speed. With SCRAMNet's replicated shared-memory design, all
- computer nodes on the network are equipped with identical
- computer-addressable memories. Every change to the replicated
- shared-memory at one node is immediately and automatically replicated in
- all nodes on the network in microseconds, causing all computers to appear
- to real-time applications as one large virtual multi-processor. Featuring
- fiber-optic technology, a sophisticated interrupt structure, data
- filtering and a programmable byte swapper, the SCRAMNet network avoids the
- limitations of physical shared-memory architecture and message-passing
- LANs to deliver true real-time speed, deterministic performance, and
- positive system control with no software overhead.
-
- Pricing
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- The new SCRAMNet pricing will be effective April 15, 1992.
-
- An established research and development firm headquartered in Dayton, Ohio,
- Systran Corp. specializes in simulation, artificial intelligence and
- defense-related hardware/ software research and development. The company's
- SCRAMNet network is the leading real-time network, with hundreds of nodes
- in use at aerospace, corporate and U.S. military installations. For more
- information, contact Systran at 4126 Linden Ave., Dayton, OH 45432-3068
- USA. Telephone: 1-800-252-5601. Fax: (513) 2582729.
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