Motorola Inc’s Codex Corp today announces support for the Frame Relay bulk packet-switching standard on its 6290 Fast Packet T1/E1 Multiplexer, and on the 6525 Packet Switch, has introduced a 6507 Multiprotocol packet assembler-dissembler, and has committed itself to providing all these and future Frame Relay products worldwide under the management of the Codex 9800 Open Systems Interconnection-based Series Network Management System. The Frame Relay interface for the 6290 T1/E1 switch is designed to enable customers to gain access to high-speed digital networks while providing the benefits of fast packet switching on the backbone, and the interface on its 6525 X25 Packet Switch enables packet switching data streams to be fed by the Codex 6500 packet switches and packet assembler-dissemblers onto the 6290 fast packet backbone network which will enable customers to build high-performance hubs with throughput greater than 30,000 packets-per-second. The 6290 is offered by Codex through a partnership with Stratacom Inc, Campbell, California, in which Motorola has a 20% equity interest, and has just been launched throughout Europe. Since 1987, the T1 version of the 6290 has been sold, installed and maintained by Codex throughout the US. The E1 6290 is now also undergoing the standards approval tests in a number of European countries including the UK, and will be submitted for approvals throughout the rest of the world in 1991. The 6290 interface card set consists of the Frame Relay PAD and a four-port Frame Relay Software Licence per node. These will all be available in the first quarter of 1991 in the US and the third quarter in Europe; no prices were given.
