Gigabit Layer 3 Expandable Switches From Allied Telesyn

Allied Telesyn, the global provider of end-to-end Ethernet/IP solutions, released the AT-x900-24XT and AT-x900-24XS Gigabit Layer 3+ expandable switches. These new additions are designed for organisations where high performance network applications are essential, for example in the Service Provider market or the Online Education industry where lectures are conducted through live video.

These switches come with two 30Gbps expansion bays supporting a choice of modules, including a 10GbE port module, a twelve 1GbE port SFP module and a twelve 1GbE (RJ45) port module for port flexibility and application versatility.

According to the company, designed to provide flexibility, Allied Telesyn’s AT-x900-24XT and AT-x900-24XS Layer 3+ switches provide maximum Gigabit Ethernet port density in a compact chassis.

Both AT-x900-24XT and AT-x900-24XS comes with 10GbE expansion modules and hot-swappable XFPs that provide high-speed, high-capacity fiber uplinks, with the option of either 10Gbps or 20Gbps uplink capacity to the network core. Moreover, resiliency can be achieved by using two 10GbE modules and MSTP (802.1s) for fast failover on link failure.

This is suitable for wiring closet aggregation of gigabit to the desktop links and aggregating gigabit uplinks from other network switches.

With its 71.4 Million packets per second performance Allied Telesyn’s AT-x900-24XT and AT-x900-24XS will guarantee low latency for applications like VoIP, real-time video streaming, multimedia, etc by ensuring wire-speed forwarding of packets.

Other useful features include hot-swappable and load-sharing power supplies, full environmental monitoring of PSUs, fans, temperature and internal voltages, with cable fault detection and SNMP traps to alert network managers in case of any failures. Both switches come with an SD memory card socket on the front panel, allowing software release files, and configurations to be stored for backup and distribution to other switches.

For enterprise customers, AT-x900-24XT and AT-x900-24XS QoS features assure productivity by guaranteeing performance of business-critical applications (including VoIP services), and help to restore and maintain responsiveness of enterprise applications in the workplace. The comprehensive, low latency QoS features operate at wire-speed to provide flow-based traffic management with full classification, prioritization, traffic shaping and min/max bandwidth profiles.

The bandwidth controls enable 1Kbps traffic class resolutions, buffered max bandwidth at egress on all ports and 8 egress queues per port.

Except for Allied Telesyn’s AT-x900-24XS that will be available in February 2007, Allied Telesyn’s AT-x900-24XT is available now in Asia Pacific at all distributors and resellers.