Allied Telesyn Further Enhances High Performance Layer 2/Layer 3 Ethernet LAN Switching.SUNNYVALE Sunnyvale, city (1990 pop. 117,229), Santa Clara co., W Calif., near San Francisco; settled 1849, inc. 1912. A city in Silicon Valley, its many manufactures include semiconductors; machinery and instruments; electrical, electronic, and aerospace products; , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 1999-- New AT- at- pref. Variant of ad-. 8550 and AT-8525 switches bring unparalleled scalability How much a system can be expanded. See scalable. scalability - How well a solution to some problem will work when the size of the problem increases. For example, a central server of some kind with ten clients may perform adequately but with a thousand clients it and Quality of Service, further enabling Voice over IP and other media-rich applications Allied Telesyn International (www.alliedtelesyn.com), a worldwide leader in simplifying networking for businesses of all sizes, announced Monday Monday: see week. the addition of two new members to the Gigabit Ethernet An Ethernet standard that transmits at 1 Gbps. Used mostly to connect high-end workstations and servers as well as for network backbones, Gigabit Ethernet transmits full duplex from point to point using switches and half duplex in a shared environment (CSMA/CD) using a hub. switch family it first introduced in July July: see month. of 1998. Designed to support larger networks that are feeling the strain of today's high-bandwidth applications and heavy traffic, the new switches overcome bottlenecks, optimizing access throughout the network by linking workstations via 24 or 48 10/100Mbps autosensing ports to the high-speed high-speed adj. 1. Operated or designed for operation at high speed: a high-speed food processor. 2. Taking place at high speed: a high-speed chase. 3. Gigabit Ethernet backbone. The two new high performance switches, the AT-8525 and the AT-8550 are shipping now, and are being shown March 18-24 in Allied Telesyn's booth - No. D63 in hall 11 - at CeBIT `99 in Hannover, Germany. "Switching is the fastest growing part of our business and as promised, Allied Telesyn is continuing to expand its switch portfolio. "These two new products offer our customers a `best in class' solution for high density 10/100 Layer 2 switching, with features and performance that make them superior to any of the stackable products on the market today," said Sean Keohane, Allied Telesyn's senior vice president of marketing and engineering. "Allied Telesyn is committed to providing products that meet today's networking needs, and will take our customers into the future. These new switches have features that provide migration for port speed, port density, backbone uplinks, VLAN See virtual LAN. VLAN - Virtual Local Area Network , Layer 3, and voice over IP - key features in our customers' forward planning forward planning n → planificación f por anticipado ." The latest additions to Allied Telesyn's new Gigabit switch family bring simple, reliable, speed-optimizing solutions to today's network traffic challenges, while providing for solutions that will work tomorrow, too. The switches provide the wire-speed and latency (1) The time between initiating a request in the computer and receiving the answer. Data latency may refer to the time between a query and the results arriving at the screen or the time between initiating a transaction that modifies one or more databases and its completion. performance of Layer 2 MAC switching and Gigabit bandwidth access, with optional Layer 3 IP routing built-in or added later via a simple software upgrade. The devices share a common non-blocking switch architecture that provides unparalleled scalability in the area of speed, bandwidth and network size. In addition, both switches come with fully standard-compliant quality of service (QOS) which delivers guaranteed bandwidth and prioritization for network managers choosing to run voice over IP. The AT-8525 brings 24 10/100Base-TX workstations to the 1000Base-X backbone via one Gigabit uplink (1) Transmitting from an earth station to a satellite. Contrast with downlink. (2) A port on a network device that is used to connect to another network device rather than a client or server. See MDI port. - all in a compact 3.5"-high stackable package. The AT-8550 brings twice the port density of the 8525, offering 48 10/100Base-TX ports with two Gigabit uplinks. Connecting two of the AT-8550's with one of the Gigabit uplinks will deliver a 96 port solution far surpassing in performance any 4-stack 96 port solution on the market today. A redundant power supply adds further reliability. In addition to high density and outstanding price/performance, AT-8525 and AT-8550 can be easily upgraded from Layer 2 to Layer 3 with the purchase of a software key that enables full hardware-based Wire-Speed IP routing. Both provide extensive fault-tolerant features, management tools, and Allied Telesyn's renowned technical support, making either a great choice for today's busy network manager. The benefits of the Allied Telesyn Gigabit switch family are many. The switches combine the flexibility and low entry-cost of a stackable system with the fault-tolerance and high port-density of a modular system, and include support for SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) A widely used network monitoring and control protocol. Data are passed from SNMP agents, which are hardware and/or software processes reporting activity in each network device (hub, router, bridge, etc. , RMON (Remote MONitoring) Enhancements to the management information base (MIB) structure used by the simple network management protocol (SNMP). In 1991, RMON added comprehensive network monitoring capabilities. , Telnet, and RS-232 serial port access, providing both in-band and out-of-band management Out-of-band management (sometimes called Lights-out management or LOM) is the use of a dedicated management channel for device maintenance. It allows a system administrator to monitor and manage servers and other network equipment by remote control regardless of options. The AT-8550 and AT-8525 switches come with Allied Telesyn's Web-based management, as well as a pre-installed, standards-based software suite that delivers a major breakthrough in the ability to manage and control bandwidth on a network. Everything is provided to help customers get the most for their networks from these high-performance Gigabit switches. -0-
The Allied Telesyn Gigabit Switch Family
Switch Model Features Price Price/port
AT-8550SX-L2 "NEW" 48 10/100Base-TX ports
w/2 1000Base-SX uplinks,
Layer 2 $7995 $160
AT-8550SX-L3 "NEW" 48 10/100Base-TX ports
w/2 1000Base-SX uplinks,
Layer 3 $11,995 $240
AT-8550LX-L2 "NEW" 48 10/100Base-TX ports
w/2 1000Base-LX uplinks,
Layer 2 $11,995 $240
AT-8550LX-L3 "NEW" 48 10/100Base-TX ports
w/2 1000Base-LX uplinks,
Layer 3 $15,995 $320
AT-8525SX-L2 "NEW" 24 10/100Base-TX ports
w/1 1000Base-SX uplink,
Layer 2 $5495 $220
AT-8525SX-L3 "NEW" 24 10/100Base-TX ports
w/1 1000Base-SX uplink,
Layer 3 $9495 $380
AT-8525LX-L2 "NEW" 24 10/100Base-TX ports
w/1 1000Base-LX uplink,
Layer 2 $7495 $300
AT-8525LX-L3 "NEW" 24 10/100Base-TX ports
w/1 1000Base-LX uplink,
Layer 3 $11,495 $460
AT-L3KEY "NEW" Layer 2 to Layer 3
software upgrade for
AT-8550 and AT-8525 $4995 N/A
AT-9108SX 6 1000Base-SX ports and
2 1000Base-SX Layer 3 $12,499 $1,562
AT-9108LX 6 1000Base-SX ports and
2 1000Base-LX Layer 3 $16,499 $2,062
AT-8518SX 16 10/100Base-TX ports
w/2 1000Base-SX ports,
Layer 3 $9,995 $555
AT-8518LX 16 10/100Base-TX ports
w/2 1000Base-LX ports,
Layer 3 $12,995 $722
About Allied Telesyn International Allied Telesyn International simply connects the world with affordable, highly reliable networking technology and products. Allied Telesyn's product lines build networks that link people to information - in small networks, across large networks, and over the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the . Its Ethernet Ethernet Telecommunications networking protocol introduced by Xerox Corp. in 1979. It was developed as an inexpensive way of sending information quickly between office machines connected together in a single room or building, but it rapidly became a standard computer , Fast Ethernet An earlier name for 100Mbps Ethernet. See 100Base-T. (networking) Fast Ethernet - A version of Ethernet developed in the 1990s(?) which can carry 100 Mbps compared with standard Ethernet's 10 Mbps. It requires upgraded network cards and hubs. , and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity products for fiber optic, traditional copper and mixed networks keep cost of ownership low by delivering quality and backing it with superior warranties and free technical support. Incorporated in 1987, Allied Telesyn is headquartered in Sunnyvale, and has locations throughout the U.S. and the world. Allied Telesyn's products are available through a large network of consultants, resellers, retailers and catalogs. The full range of products is also available to purchase online through Allied Telesyn's BuyLine catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. . Further information on BuyLine, Allied Telesyn International and its products can be found at www.alliedtelesyn.com, or by calling its headquarters at 800/424-4284. |
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