Lucent Technologies Delivers End-to-End Gigabit Ethernet Functionality in Cajun Campus Family of Switching Solutions.CONCORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 9, 1999-- Additional New Products Provide Standards-Based Functionality, VLAN See virtual LAN. VLAN - Virtual Local Area Network Interoperability and QoS Across Product Portfolio Lucent Technologies today introduced several new 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. products for its Cajun(tm) Campus portfolio of stackable, mid-range and high-end local area network switching solutions. These new products include the Cajun P118 Stackable Switch, the latest entrant in Lucent's Cajun P110 Switching System family, as well as Gigabit Ethernet modules for the Cajun M400 Gate Switches and Cajun M770 Multifunction Switch. Together with the company's existing Gigabit Ethernet platforms--the Cajun P550 Gigabit Switch, Cajun P550 Routing Switch See layer 3 switch. and Cajun P220 Gigabit Switches--these new additional Lucent offers provide network managers with a wide range of options for deploying 1,000 megabits per second (unit) megabits per second - (Mbps, Mb/s) Millions of bits per second. A unit of data rate. 1 Mb/s = 1,000,000 bits per second (not 1,048,576). E.g. Ethernet can carry 10 Mbps. (Mbps) Ethernet functionality in their enterprise networks. With the availability of end-to-end, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 802.3z-compliant Gigabit Ethernet products in its Cajun Campus product line, Lucent today delivers scalable capacity ranging from 10 Mbps up to multiple 1,000 Mbps, plus standards-based IEEE 802.1p/Q VLAN and Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities across its family of Ethernet and multifunction switches. "We offer managers an extensive array of reliable, standards-based, Gigabit Ethernet choices they can deploy in their enterprise networks today," said Menachem Abraham, vice president of Lucent's LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. Systems Group. "Customers can tailor our various Cajun Campus Gigabit Ethernet solutions, either separately or together in different combinations, to meet their specific requirements and solve their existing and future bandwidth needs." "These new products broaden and strengthen Lucent's Gigabit Ethernet portfolio, and complement the company's substantial installed base of thousands of P220 and P550 Switches," commented Michael Howard
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With over 10 models available, the P110 line is a series of sophisticated solutions that combine the benefits of cost-effective, plug-and-play stackable switches with the flexibility and high-end features typically found in modular switches. The Cajun P118 provides two fully-switched, fault-tolerant Gigabit Ethernet ports and eight 10/100 Mbps Ethernet auto-negotiating ports. In addition to standards-based IEEE 802.1p/Q VLAN and QoS capabilities, the P118 will also support Lucent's OpenTrunk(tm) link aggregation See port aggregation. capability that allows both Gigabit Ethernet links to be used to create a two gigabits per second (Gbps) aggregated connection. Users may combine up to four Cajun P118 units in a stack via its four Gbps, non-blocking backplane, creating a single switch consisting of up to eight Gigabit Ethernet ports and up to 32 10/100 Ethernet ports--all managed by a common agent supporting the Simple Network Management Protocol (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. ), as well as Lucent's Switch MONitoring (SMON (1) (Switch MONitoring) A management information base (MIB) used to describe and manage network switching equipment. See MIB and RMON. (2) (System MONitor) A background process that runs when an Oracle database is running. (tm)) functionality. SMON enables network managers to view traffic anywhere in the network, from a single link to the entire network at once. The new LGE-2000 Gigabit Ethernet Module for Lucent's M400 Gate Switches is a two-port, single-slot module containing one switched Gigabit Ethernet port, plus a redundant link port, and is available in both short- and long-wavelengths. The M400 Switches are modular, multifunction, data center platforms designed to bring the benefits of high-speed switching and routing to legacy networks. Available in three chassis sizes ranging from five to 18 slots, the M400 series integrate support for 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet, Asynchronous Transfer Mode See ATM. (communications) Asynchronous Transfer Mode - (ATM, or "fast packet") A method for the dynamic allocation of bandwidth using a fixed-size packet (called a cell). See also ATM Forum, Wideband ATM. ATM acronyms. Indiana acronyms. (ATM), Fiber Distributed Data Interface See FDDI. Fiber Distributed Data Interface - (FDDI) A 100 Mbit/s ANSI standard local area network architecture, defined in X3T9.5. The underlying medium is optical fibre (though it can be copper cable, in which case it may be called CDDI) and the topology is a (FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface) Often pronounced "fiddy," it was a LAN and MAN access method that had its heyday in the mid-1990s. FDDI was an ANSI standard token passing network that transmitted 100 Mbps over optical fiber up to 10 kilometers. ) and multilayer switching into a single unit with extensive fault tolerance and redundancy features. Lucent's new M2-1000 Gigabit Ethernet Module for its Cajun M770 Multifunction Switch consists of two Gigabit Ethernet ports and six 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ports. With the M2-1000 Module, users can deploy up to 24 Gigabit Ethernet ports and 72 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ports in an M770 chassis. The modular, enterprise-class Cajun M770 Multifunction Switch is designed specifically to provide the reliability required for the convergence of voice, data and video into a common infrastructure, and features its unique Switch Architecture For Extreme Resiliency (SAFER(tm)) that distributes critical switching, management and processing functions. Availability and Pricing All of Lucent's new Gigabit Ethernet products are available now at the following North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. list prices: ------------------------------------------------- ------------------ DESCRIPTION PRICE ------------------------------------------------- ------------------ Cajun P118 Stackable Switch -- SX $ 3,995 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------ Cajun P118 Stackable Switch -- LX $ 5,495 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------ M400 LGE-2000 Gigabit Ethernet Module -- SX $ 4,995 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------ M400 LGE-2000 Gigabit Ethernet Module -- LX $ 6,495 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------ M770 M2-1000 Gigabit Ethernet Module -- SX $ 9,995 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------ M770 M2-1000 Gigabit Ethernet Module -- LX $11,995 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------ NetCare Services Lucent's Cajun-branded Ethernet, multifunction and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) switching products are all supported by the company's NetCare(R) Services organization. NetCare Services offers a broad set of consulting, integration, diagnostic and maintenance/management services for multivendor data and video networks, voice systems and networks and call centers delivered by highly experienced associates using tools created by Bell Labs, among others. For more information about NetCare Services, call 1-800-4NetCare, or visit the NetCare Web site at www.netcaredata.com. About Lucent Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronics components. Bell Labs is the research and development arm for the company. Additional information about Lucent Technologies is available on the company's web site at www.lucent.com. NetCare is a registered trademark and Cajun, OpenTrunk, SMON and SAFER are trademarks of Lucent Technologies. |
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