ATEN International - ATEN Acquires IPMI Provider Wellsyn Technology

Kevin Chen, President of ATEN International (right) and Jerry Chen, President of Wellsyn Technology (left).Store this angel in big sizeAcquisition Adds Server Management Functionality to ATEN KVM Product Line

TAIPEI, TAIWAN, September 6, 2005-- --ATEN International Co. Ltd., a arch designer, architect and benefactor of beat connectivity solutions today appear the accretion of Wellsyn Technology, a Taiwan-based provider of Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) and limited arrangement administration applications. Wellsyn is the alone Taiwan architect of IPMI SoC (system-on-chip) solutions and owns arch IPMI 2.0 technology capability. With the achievement of the acquisition, ATEN will not alone accretion Wellsyn Technology’s apparent rights, but will aswell access the absolute R&D aggregation and the IPMI amount technology competence. The accretion of Wellsyn will be complete on September 26, 2005.

“Our accretion of Wellsyn Technology completes our eyes of a holistic apartment of solutions that consolidate assorted abstracts centermost accessories and servers active on assorted platforms to accommodate arrangement administrators with a added able advice infrastructure. Wellsyn’s IPMI-based solutions will accompaniment and accommodate seamlessly aural our artefact line, thereby accouterment greater ascendancy over servers,” said Kevin Chen, President of ATEN International.

Introduced in 1998 by Dell, Intel, HP and NEC as adaptation 1.0, the IPMI blueprint is acclimated to adviser server concrete bloom characteristics, including temperature, voltage, fans, ability food and chassis. IPMI is a accouterments akin interface blueprint that defines a common, abstracted, message-based interface to belvedere ecology and ascendancy functions. IPMI, already accepted by added than 178 companies, is advised to abate TCO by enabling IT administrators to advance server uptime. In addition, IPMI technology can be acclimated in Internet, email, accumulator and PDA applications.

Founded in March 2004, Wellsyn Technology provides SoC, firmware, OS porting and basal AP samples for its barter to acceleration up the time to bazaar for all-embracing software and arrangement development. “We are admiring to accommodate ATEN with a activating R&D aggregation with a abyss and across of ability focused on limited administration solutions and SoC to advice the aggregation optimize our patent-pending iKVM and IPMI technologies aural their artefact mix,” said Jerry Chen, admiral of Wellsyn Technology.

About ATEN

ATEN International Co., Ltd. is specialized in connectivity solutions in the advice technology back its enactment in the year of 1979 and is today advised as the undoubted a lot of important architect of KVM Switches world-wide. This arresting position was accomplished by continuously top investments in analysis and development, which achieve aswell in abundant patents and become apparent, for example, by the adult ASICs, which are developed in the ATEN labs and bogus by ATEN. They ensure for the actuality that annually added than 50 new articles appear on the apple markets. The artefact ambit today covers hundreds of connectivity articles from the baby USB hub up to the able KVM switches for managing added than bags of computers. Among the barter of ATEN rank the large, all-embracing acting companies additionally as midrange and baby businesses as able-bodied as aggressive clandestine users. For added advice see www.aten.com.

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