SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, USA (Nov 5, 1998) - ZNYX Corporation pushed forward its CompactPCI high availability LAN solutions with demonstrations of CompactPCI Hot Swap and RAINlink™ fast failover and port aggregation software.

At the CompactPCI Compatibility Workshop ZNYX tested a prototype Fast Ethernet adapter with CompactPCI systems from Motorola, Force, and Ziatech. The prototype adapters performed as expected, validating the design and compatibility with hot swap backplanes and paving the way for production versions. ZNYX's CompactPCI hotswap technology, fully compliant with PICMG 2.1 Hot Swap specifications, will be incorporated in a future NetBlaster ZX440 Series adapter.

Also tested at the workshop, a new release of ZNYX NetBlaster™ drivers with embedded RAINlink software was tested with Sun Solaris-based systems. This new driver supports active redundancy and features fast failover and link aggregation. The aggregation function supports two modes of operation: system-to-system trunking and system-to-switch trunking. This new version of driver supports ZNYX’s family of NetBlaster PCI and CompactPCI adapters. It is available for Solaris version 2.6 (Intel and SPARC). The driver may be downloaded from the driver page of ZNYX’s website.

ZNYX also showcased the first production versions of a two-channel, Fast Ethernet adapter for CompactPCI systems. The ZNYX NetBlaster ZX412 joins the four-channel NetBlaster ZX414 as ZNYX's high availability adapters for CompactPCI systems. These adapters are in volume production and include both FCC Class B and CE certifications. This ZX410 series of adapters supports a number of popular embedded computing environments including Windows NT, Solaris, LynxOS, VxWorks, pSOS+ and QNX. All drivers are downloadable from the ZNYX website.