New Aurora Linux Driver Offers Async Serial Connection and Custom Baud Rates

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For more information, please contact:
Kerry Dwyer
Press Relations
Aurora Technologies, Inc.
P: 781.266.1145
F: 508.588.0498
Email: kerryd@auroratech.com


New Aurora Linux Driver Offers 
Async Serial Connection and Custom Baud Rates

Brockton, MA, November 8, 2002 - Aurora Technologies, Inc. is pleased to
announce its SIOLX 2.11, a new Linux device driver that supports Aurora's PCI
asynchronous serial communications cards.  This new integrated multifunction
Linux driver features asynchronous TTY devices and is ideal for high-speed,
high-throughput applications in the financial services, telecommunications,
manufacturing, military/defense, education, and ISP industries.

The new SIOLX Linux driver works with Intel-based systems running a
distribution of the 2.4 Linux kernel and supports Aurora's Aries family of 8
and 16-port asynchronous PCI multiport serial controllers.  The Aries 8000P
and 16000P multiport serial communications controllers enable 8 to 16 serial
devices to be interfaced from one PCI Bus slot.  This family of
high-throughput controllers supports asynchronous data transfer rates up to
115.2 kbps, full duplex, simultaneously on all ports.  

Benefits of Aurora's SIOLX Linux driver include an asynchronous TTY driver
that supports serial connections to asynchronous TTYs with the standard
Linux/Unix terminal capabilities and custom baud rates.  The Aurora Linux
software also provides full asynchronous modem and printer support for all
ports supporting up to V.92 and V.Everything.

Another key feature of this Linux driver is its compatibility with Aurora's
XP series of expansion chassis.  This hardware and driver combination
benefits the user by providing up to 112 ports from a single host slot.  

Aurora packages the SIOLX Linux driver with source code for users to modify
for custom applications.  Partitioned by functionality, the source code comes
with functional and design specifications.  The driver is free to the public
and available via the Aurora's website at http://www.auroratech.com.

Aurora also offers the ASLX 2.01 Linux driver for use with the company's sync
and sync/asynchronous PCI and CompactPCI multiport serial controllers,
including Apollo 4020P; Saturn 2520P, 4520P, and 8520P; and Vanguard 4520CP.

About Aurora Technologies, Inc.

Founded in 1988 as a third-party developer of connectivity products for the
Sun Solaris marketplace, Aurora has evolved into an early-to-market developer
of board- and system-level products based on Switch Fabric/StarFabric(r) that
are ideal for applications that support multiple classes of high-speed data
traffic, including legacy, path routing, and multicasting.

Since its founding, Aurora has achieved expertise in direct-to-bus
synchronous WAN communications and high-port count serial connectivity
solutions.  While continuing to enhance its legacy serial products for the
Sun marketplace, Aurora is expanding its connectivity products with a special
focus on Switch Fabric/StarFabric technologies, emerging PICMG(r) standards,
and Linux(r). 

Aurora Technologies, Inc. is a Carlo Gavazzi Group Company.

For more information about Aurora Technologies, Inc. and its products, please
visit http://www.auroratech.com.

About the Carlo Gavazzi Group Companies

CG Mupac, electronic packaging; Aurora Technologies, fabric and I/O
connectivity; Computer Systems Group, SBCs and computer platforms; and
Channel Access, execution and integration have joined forces to form the
Carlo Gavazzi Group Companies, which is owned by Carlo Gavazzi Holdings of
Switzerland.

The Carlo Gavazzi Group Companies build on their individual strengths to
serve as a source for everything from single components to application-ready
systems.  The group meets the time-to-market needs of the computer telephony
integration, industrial control and automation, military, financial services,
and medical industries.


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