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| 07/15/2003 - Orange, CA Storage Manufacturer CaenAV Announces Partnership with
Astera Technologies CaenAV, the AV focused subsidiary of 27-year-old storage manufacturer Caen Engineering, Inc. announced a partnership with Astera Technologies today. Astera Technologies is a spin-off of JNI Corporation, a publicly held Fibre Channel Company (Nasdaq: JNIC). Astera Technologies was created to design and develop high-end fibre channel products and fibre channel-related technologies for the media and content creation markets. CaenAV believes that the partnership will go a long way toward providing their high-end storage customers with solutions tailored specifically for the HD video market. “Astera Technologies has a very strong pedigree and an extremely solid product line up,” said Ed Bacorn, Sales representative for CaenAV. “Astera has designed custom-tuned fibre channel drivers that will address the need for optimum performance when working with HD video.” Astera offers both single and dual channel 2 GB fibre channel host bus adapter cards with their Rhino series. Astera cards feature seamless interoperability and include High-Definition drivers that have been specifically tuned for use in the AV industry. Astera released their HDFC (high-definition fibre channel driver) in June; this driver overcomes the I/O bottlenecks found in OS X. These cards, combined with the JumanJi SAN configuration utility provide users with comprehensive suite of tools that have been designed to help users get the highest performance from their Astera / CaenAV equipment. “This partnership will go a long way toward providing the Mac video community with a reliable, high-performance solution for HD storage,” said Gustavo Jorge, VP of Sales and Marketing for Astera Technologies. “With CaenAV and Astera you have two companies who are focused on delivering products that will provide high-end video users the data throughput that they require for HD.” CaenAV is a subsidiary of Caen Engineering, a 27 year-old storage company who made their name in the government, IT and Telecommunications industries. CaenAV’s primary focus is on the high-end digital video and audio markets. CaenAV storage solutions are manufactured to consistently perform well above commonly held industry specifications. The CaenAV product line features a number of high-end storage solutions including 2 GB fibre channel, ultra SCSI and IDE RAID solutions. More information on CaenAV and Astera Technologies can be found on their company websites, www.caenav.com and www.asteratech.com respectively. About CaenAV CaenAV is a subsidiary of Caen Engineering, Inc., a globally recognized leader of RAID and general-purpose storage. Caen Engineering, Inc., with corporate headquarters in Orange, CA, has successfully marketed and sold high-end storage solutions into the government, military and IT markets for 27 years. CaenAV provides storage solutions for the digital audio, video, and animation markets.
Astera Technologies Corporation is a manufacturer of Fibre Channel Storage Communication products used to attach Server and Workstations to storage area networks (SAN). Astera offers Fibre Channel Host Based Adapter products for the Mac OS and Novell OS, that span single and dual channel adapters. Astera’s corporate office is located in Fremont, California.
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