GigE switches

ACT/Technico has released fully managed IPv4/IPv6 ComEth4300a 10 gigabit ethernet switches with feature claimed to be as powerful as those of an IP carrier class router.

The family supports jumbo frames, full-wire speed layer 2 bridging as well as layer 3 unicast and multicast engine forwarding, all running at full data rate.

In addition, the switches support layer 2 to layer 4 advanced traffic classification, filtering and prioritisation. This makes them suitable for data security services that require strict priority data trafficking as found in time-sensitive or critical applications.

Designed for demanding networking applications and built on the latest generation of Marvell’s Prestera GigE packet processors, the switches range from 24 to 28 ports, up to four of which can be 10 gigabit. The automatic MAC address management, auto-negotiation, auto-polarity and auto-crossover on each port make the family plug-and-play and provide a routing capacity of 125 million packets per second.

The switches fit in standard 6U CompactPCI systems, comply with the PICMG 2.16 standard and are supplied in standard, extended and conduction-cooled grades. VME and VPX versions, compliant with VITA standards 31.1 and 46.20, will also be available.

An onboard PowerQUICC-III processor handles all the management functions and the protocol processing, including L3 routing and set-up and additional L4 services.

The software manages all the traffic routing and packet processing and the entire system can be monitored from a browser, SNMP or CLI.