TriplePlay™ Network Acceleration

   NETWORLD + INTEROP, Las Vegas, NV, May 6, 1997 /PRNewswire/-- 
Measurement Techniques, Inc., (NetWorld+Interop Booth #3085) 
the leader in network caching technology, today announced 
its TriplePlay™ network acceleration, which nearly doubles 
the available bandwidth of existing networks. 
TriplePlay™ (patents pending) provides protocol and 
application independent compression for network interface 
cards (NICs) in either hardware or software. TriplePlay™ 
compresses packets before they are transmitted to conserve 
network bandwidth and improve performance. To ensure 
compatibility with existing equipment, TriplePlay compresses 
only the data payloads, not the protocol headers, allowing 
transparent operation with existing bridges, routers and 
switches.

   "No one would use a modem today that did not provide 
compression," said  Clinton Battersby, President of MTI, 
"but everyone uses network interface cards (NICs) that do 
not take advantage of compression to reduce the load on 
networks."

   While the gains associated with compressing data only 
occur between TriplePlay-enabled devices, full compatibility 
is guaranteed with all legacy network devices with no 
performance degradation. In fact, in the case of saturated 
and overloaded networks, even the performance of devices not 
equipped with TriplePlay will likely improve as TriplePlay™ 
devices conserve bandwidth on the network.

   TriplePlay™ can be used with 10/100Mbps Ethernet 
(delivering 20/200 Mbps of effective bandwidth ) as well as 
Token-Ring and FDDI networks. Network administrators can use 
TriplePlay ™ today to solve immediate bandwidth limitations 
using existing 10M wiring hubs and switches delivering 
20Mbps of throughput to the desktop. After upgrading wiring 
and hubs to 100Mbps, TriplePlay™ continues to enhance 
available bandwidth by delivering up to 200 Mbps of 
bandwidth.

   MTI is talking to leading Original Equipment 
Manufacturers (OEMs) that plan to integrate TriplePlay™ 
technology into their product lines by mid summer. 
TriplePlay™ may also be offered by leading OEMs as an 
upgrade to existing NIC software drivers to effectively 
double existing network performance. Potential OEMs are 
encouraged to contact MTI for more details about licensing 
TriplePlay™.

   Measurement Techniques, Inc. earned its place as the 
leading supplier of network performance solutions with its 
patent pending Shared LAN Cache™ (SLC™) line of network 
caching products. SLC™ stores recently accessed information 
in a combination of local and shared caches to improve 
network and file server performance.

   For example, users may request a particular word 
processing application or document several times a day. SLC 
automatically caches either the application or document the 
first time it is read. The next time the user requests the 
same file, it comes from the SLC cache instead of the file 
server. This dramatically improves performance and reduces 
the load on both the network and file server.

   Positioning TriplePlay™ compression and SLC Caching, 
Battersby said, "Some file content cannot be cached while 
other content cannot be compressed. The combination of 
caching and compression provides an optimum solution."
All MTI products, including TriplePlay and SLC, can be 
used to augment the performance of routers and switches from 
companies including IBM, Cisco, 3Com, Intel, Compaq, Olicom, 
SMC, Bay Networks, Ascend, Cabletron and Shiva.

   Measurement Techniques, Inc., headquartered in Stoughton, 
Massachusetts, is the leading supplier of high performance 
LAN caching solutions. Measurement Techniques is a privately 
funded corporation. For more information about Measurement 
Techniques or Shared LAN Cache, visit 
http://www.lancache.com on the World Wide Web.
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Note to editors: TriplePlay™ and Shared LAN Cache™ are 
trademarks of Measurement Techniques, Inc. All other 
trademarks are of their respective companies

SOURCE    Measurement Techniques, Inc.