Accton, Sandburst Intro MetroBox-AS, First Switch Supporting Complete Metro Ethernet Access Services; Supports Metro Access, Triple Play and Aggregation Opportunities with Per-Flow Qos, Feature Programmability and MPLS Routing.ST. ALBANS, United Kingdom & ANDOVER, Mass. -- Accton Technology Corporation (TAIEX TAIEX Technical Assistance Information Exchange Office (EU) TAIEX Technical Assistance Information Service : 2345, www.accton.com) and Sandburst Corporation today introduced the newest member of the MetroBox(TM) product family: the MetroBox-Access Switch(TM) (MetroBox-AS(TM)) or the ES4826 from Accton. With the MetroBox-AS powered by Sandburst's HiBeam(R) chipset, Accton is the first Original Design Manufacturer (ODM (Original Design Manufacturer) A contract manufacturer that uses its own designs and intellectual property (IP). See contract manufacturer. ) to ship turnkey Metro Ethernet A metropolitan area network (MAN) that uses a 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) backbone rather than SONET/SDH links. Ethernet offers a more economical alternative. In a Metro Ethernet network, multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) may be deployed to provide quality of service (QoS). switches to OEMs allowing them to fully and economically address the fast growing Metro Ethernet market segment. The MetroBox-AS is the first purpose-built, shipping, NEBS-compliant ODM Metro Ethernet access switch that supports the full array of Metro Ethernet Access deployment scenarios, from pure Ethernet access for Multi-Tenant Units (MTUs) to degradation-free Triple Play Service aggregation of IP-DSLAM and MSAN MSAN Multiservice Access Node MSAN Minority Student Achievement Network MSAN Muslim Student Awareness Network (Stanford University) MSAN Multi-Services Access Network provisioned broadband networks  This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.You can assist by [ editing it] now. . It features per-subscriber quality-of-service (QoS), unmatched forwarding performance that will continue to scale, and rich programmability. Its breadth of service applicability, future-proof performance and feature expandability give OEMs clear competitive advantages, and are powered by the market-proven Sandburst HiBeam chipset, the industry's most widely integrated and widely deployed Metro Ethernet chipset. "The ES4826 is a distinctly exciting product for Accton because it allows us to provide our customers with a unique opportunity to re-set current benchmarks for best-in-class features, reliability and performance, and lets OEMs rapidly expand their Metro Ethernet market opportunities," noted Paul Easto, Business Development Director for Accton's Telecoms Business . "Sandburst's HiBeam chipset is an indispensable element in the ES4826. We're delighted to continue our successful, market-shaping partnership with the Sandburst team." "To date, the majority of cost effective Metro Ethernet access switches have basically been Enterprise products repositioned to support a narrowly-defined sub-set of Metro Ethernet applications. These solutions appear to have achieved limited commercial success," noted Simon Stanley, Founder and Principal Consultant of Earlswood Marketing. "Accton's ES4826 is a compelling step forward. Its comprehensive, purpose built approach, NEBS compliance, and telco grade redundancy together with programmable forwarding plane and comprehensive QoS reflect a solution that can evolve with the real world requirements of Metro Ethernet service providers. I see it as a potential catalyst for a new round of aggressive competition among network vendors looking to secure Metro Ethernet market share." Sandburst President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Vince Graziani concludes: "We are very pleased to once again have the opportunity to work with Accton's extraordinary development team, and to be incorporated into the flagship MetroBox line. The breadth of functionality and early market demand for MetroBox-AS clearly illustrate why Accton has become the ODM of choice for leading OEMs, and is a true benchmark for carriers and Enterprise organizations." MetroBox-AS: Best-In-Class Performance For Metro Ethernet Access MetroBox-AS lets OEMs easily and economically ensure the stability, integrity and consistently optimal performance of fast-growing Metro Ethernet access services: -- Metro Access: MetroBox-AS's rich Metro Ethernet feature set incorporates L2 switching, L3 routing (including IPv4 and IPv6 unicast and multicast), complete VLAN See virtual LAN. VLAN - Virtual Local Area Network support (including VLAN stacking) and MPLS/VPLS/HVPLS support. Its flexible, highly programmable forwarding plane enables the extension of IP/MPLS IP/MPLS Internet Protocol/Multi-Protocol Label Switching to the access network from the provider core, and readily adapts as this moving standard continues to mature. MetroBox-AS is ideal for access deployment in diverse client, campus and regional scenarios. Routing resources can be partitioned on up to hundreds of VRFs and multiple tenant locations can be shared per physical interface, each with explicitly tailored SLAs. -- Degradation-Free Triple Play Services: MetroBox-AS delivers the scalable per-subscriber hierarchical QoS essential for Triple Play Services (Voice, Video and Data). MetroBox-AS's unmatched traffic management enables service providers to simultaneously support latency and jitter A flicker or fluctuation in a transmission signal or display image. The term is used in several ways, but it always refers to some offset of time and space from the norm. For example, in a network transmission, jitter would be a bit arriving either ahead or behind a standard clock cycle sensitive VoIP traffic alongside IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) Also called "TV over IP," IPTV delivers scheduled TV programs and video-on-demand (VOD) via the IP protocol and digital streaming techniques used to watch video on the Internet. , Video on Demand and high-bandwidth unicast and multicast data services. Its advanced traffic management includes: --Native support for DiffServ QoS --16K queues to support multiple queues per customer --Full compliance with the Metro Ethernet Forum's rigorous traffic engineering requirements --Fine-grained differentiated treatment of traffic including WFQ See traffic engineering methods. , Priority Queuing, Bandwidth Guarantees, Hierarchical Traffic Shaping --IP-DSLAM aggregation features for comprehensive subscriber traffic isolation and modification. Configurations and Availability: The Accton ES4826 supports 20 ports of RJ-45 10/100/1000 Copper Ethernet, 4 Combo Gigabit Ethernet ports (10/100/1000 plus SFP SFP Small Form-factor Pluggable (optical transceiver module) SFP Société Française de Physique (French Physics Society; Paris) Sfp Svenska Folkpartiet (Finnish: Swedish People~s Party) ) and 2 ports of XFP XFP 10 Gigabit Small Form Factor Pluggable Module XFP Extra-Fine-Pitch XFP Ten Gigabit Small Form Factor Pluggable 10 Gigabit Ethernet. The Accton ES4826A supports 20 ports of SFP Gigabit Ethernet, 4 Combo Gigabit Ethernet ports (10/100/1000 plus SFP) and 2 ports of XFP 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Versions are available without the 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports, and with either dual AC or dual DC power supplies. It is available from November 2005 for OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and customization and shipment. About Sandburst Sandburst(R) is a fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab. delivering adaptive silicon to power advanced Ethernet and IP switches. Sandburst's HiBeam(R) chipset provides its system vendor clients with a complete packet switching data path for Enterprise and Service Provider applications. A privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , Sandburst is financed by leading venture capital investors. Sandburst services the worldwide networking market from its headquarters in Andover, MA. For more information, see www.sandburst.com. About Accton Technology Corporation For more than fifteen years, Accton (TAIEX: 2345) has been making partnerships work; designing, developing and manufacturing innovative technology for top-tier networking, computer, and telecommunications vendors. The company's robust and constantly-evolving core technology and highly-qualified employees allow Accton to produce the best in networking and communications technology that keeps people connected around the world and across the office. Headquartered in the heart of Taiwan's Hsinchu Science-Based Industrial Park, Accton's teams of engineers work on location with partners and from Accton R&D centers around the globe. For more information about Accton and its subsidiaries, visit www.accton.com. |
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