Farallon Computing Inc of Emeryville, California has acquired a range of technology from Infosphere Inc of Portland, Oregon: it includes the software AppleTalk router that won the 1989 Eddy Award, and Farallon has released a new version called PhoneNet Liaison 3.0; Farallon says that PhoneNet Liaison is the only universal router that offers wide area networking capabilities, and the technology acquisition completes Farallon’s eithernet strategy to combine LocalTalk, Ethernet and telecommunications; Liaison 3.0 bridges all types of AppleTalk networks, and Farallon says it will use the producds wide area networking capabilities to enhance and develop products; it automatically supports networks containing both AppleTalk Phase I and II protocols, and the new communication control language scripting support enables users to access more communications devices; Farallon is shipping PhoneNet Liaison 3.0 in September, and Infosphere will discontinue its current Liaison 2.0.6 product; Liason is $400, and the upgrade costs $75.
