GE Intelligent Platforms NETernity gigabit ethernet switch

GE Intelligent Platforms has announced the NETernity CP921RC-30x 6U CompactPCI 24-port gigabit ethernet switch.

Designed for applications in telecommunications, industrial and military systems, it is a fully managed layer 2/3+ switch with support for ‘future-proof’ IPv6 switching and routing.

New functionality is included in the form of failover groups, a feature that is part of GE’s Open Ware switch management environment.

Responding to the need for very high availability networks, it is designed to support redundancy at different levels - redundant links across backplanes from nodes to switches and redundant links to external networks.

The switch is optionally available with two front-panel 10 gigabit ethernet ports and two gigabit ethernet ports capable of supporting SFP+ and SFP transceivers (which can be copper or fibre) for greater configuration flexibility.

The Open Ware software, designed specifically for the NETernity range of switches, provides an improved user experience for application development and support. Additional functionality or customisation can be simply incorporated within Open Ware.

It provides a full set of configuration and management functions including VLANs, quality of service, link aggregation, SNMP, MSTP and multicast.

The switch supports high-availability hot swap as well as IPMI v1.5 to further improve availability, maintainability and manageability.

As well as supporting Layer-2/3+ switching, it can support Layer 4-7 switching when required. A variety of rear transition boards is available to provide rear I/O configuration flexibility beyond the flexibility delivered by the switch’s optional front panel ports.