Zuma Networks Announces Immediate Availability of the LightReef Z16 Layer 3 IP Service Switching Platform.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers WEST HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2001 Zuma Networks, a pre-IPO growth company driving the future emergence of IP services within high-speed network fabrics, today announced the immediate general availability of the LightReef(TM) Z16 layer 2/3/4 switching and IP services platform. The company also announced general availability plans for its Z1 (May 30, 2001) and Z4 (June 30, 2001) chassis configurations. Zuma Network's LightReef family of products are high-performance modular layer 2/3/4 switch-routers designed to take advantage of today's requirements for scalability, performance and multi-processing Linux IP services. The LightReef products are priced from $12k to $200k depending upon chassis size and blade configuration. Todd Rope, president of Zuma Networks, stated "Carriers, enterprises and service providers are facing unpredictable, unconstrained network capacity growth requirements in today's escalating data-centric environment. Our basic Layer 2/3/4 switching technology can meet these needs right away. More significantly, our target customers are acutely aware of the need for highly available and customizable IP services solutions like network firewall/VPN, that integrate leading-edge hardware with proven, scalable software solutions. We've addressed this challenge with the availability of our LightReef Z16, Z4 and Z1 switch-router products, which feature a Linux blade based upgrade path to integrated IP services like Stonesoft's StoneGate(TM) scalable security system. We will be demonstrating our integrated switching and IP services solutions at this year's Networld + Interop 2001 in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. from May 8 to 11." Concurred Infonetics' analyst John Lawler John Lawler is a University of Michigan-based general linguist who is perhaps best known to the wider public for his role in creating the Chomskybot. He is also the editor of "Using Computers in Linguistics: A Practical Guide," a member of the "Ask-A-Linguist" panel of experts, and , "Demand for scalable multi-gigabit firewall and VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. appliances in large enterprise and service provider networks is growing rapidly. The solution that Zuma and StoneSoft are demonstrating at Networld + Interop spring 2001 provides for the convenient addition of big chunks of network security bandwidth capacity, through the addition of load balanced security clusters on Linux chassis blades. This is an innovative, low cost, low power approach to scaling both switch routing and firewall/VPN capacity. This is a great way for enterprises and service providers to scale network security systems." "Our scalable LightReef solution series sets a new standard in space and power savings for internet data centers, enterprises and carriers," added Rope. "Our Z16, the largest of our systems, is the first system to take maximum advantage of the strong megahertz/megawatt characteristics of the IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) PPC See Pocket PC, PowerPC and pay-per-click. PPC - PowerPC in a high bandwidth IP switching Switching TCP/IP packets at high speed. Ipsilon's IP Switch started the trend and various vendors followed suit with different approaches, including Cisco's tag switching and 3Com's Fast IP. The goal was to switch IP packets faster than traditional router-based layer 3 forwarding. platform. It features 16 blade slots, 256 Gbps of switching capacity and up to 32 Linux application processors. Linux IP services like Firewall, VPN, HTTP HTTP in full HyperText Transfer Protocol Standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of the TCP/IP protocol. , NAT (Network Address Translation) An IETF standard that allows an organization to present itself to the Internet with far fewer IP addresses than there are nodes on its internal network. and many others can be combined into the layer 2/3/4 switch chassis for smaller footprints, lower power costs and rapid customization." The LightReef Solution The LightReef product family features a distributed parallel hardware architecture and top of the line port density characteristics with validated wire-speed performance. It is the first high bandwidth layer 2/3/4 switch family with general-purpose development platform support, featuring bandwidth scalability and IP services scalability. The Service to LightSpeed(TM) model provides low cost trial of IP services with gradual scaling to system wide wire-speed performance. LightReef's distributed hardware architecture affords the user with a low system entry cost, while its modularized mod·u·lar·ized adj. Having or made up of modules: modularized housing. approach allows users to scale the system as bandwidth requirements Bandwidth requirements (communications) The channel bandwidths needed to transmit various types of signals, using various processing schemes. Every signal observed in practice can be expressed as a sum (discrete or over a frequency continuum) of sinusoidal increase. The elimination of a separate management module adds to the low system entry cost. Further, each blade is a complete router with four connectors for 10/100 Ethernet and Fast Ethernet (EFE EfE Environment for Europe (EU) EFE Einstein Field Equations (general relativity) EFE Early Fuel Evaporation (Automotive Emission Control) EFE Endocardial Fibroelastosis ), Gigabit Ethernet (GBE See Gigabit Ethernet. ), CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. and other function modules. Switch routing protocols run on a single PPC (PowerPC(TM)) CPU, controlled by the Zuma Networks Distributed Architecture Real Time Operating System A master control program that can provide immediate response to input signals and transactions. See real time system and embedded Linux. , or DartOS(TM). DartOS, which is master-less, load sharing and redundant, is made up of layers of software that execute in parallel on multiple CPUs and micro-controllers. Loosely coupled Linux processors run on multiple PPC CPUx modules. In addition, the first generation Linux CPU module features PCI bus, micro-drive, SCSI interface and private serial and EFE ports. Up to 126 GBE ports, 504 EFE ports or 32 IBM PPC CPUs running Linux can be supported. The LightReef's parallel hardware architecture also affords redundant hot swapping of all critical assemblies, including switch fabric cards, power supplies, fans and blades. The Z16 power supplies (N+1) and matrix cards (1+3) provide redundant protection while cross blade link aggregation secures critical upstream switch connections from service interruption due to blade failure. The LightReef integrates ATM style bandwidth and traffic management in an IP switching platform. Its flow based policing system with rate limiting results in all traffic being marked, classified and metered at wire-speed. Flows are prioritized by L2 port, L3 address, TCP (1) (Transmission Control Protocol) The reliable transport protocol within the TCP/IP protocol suite. TCP ensures that all data arrive accurately and 100% intact at the other end. bits or socket type. The LightReef family of products can also act as a high-end firewall/VPN appliance platform. When purchased in combination with Stonesoft's StoneGate software solution, the system provides the industry's first single chassis multi-gigabit firewall/VPN solution. Because LightReef combines the performance and scalability benefits of embedded network system hardware with the rapid time to market and open interfaces of the Linux general-purpose operating system, the system is an open development platform for additional integrity systems and services. "We are seeing exciting startups and established players in the storage area network (SAN) market developing innovative storage over IP solutions on embedded Linux, based on emerging protocols such as iSCSI," concluded Tony Prigmore, analyst from the Enterprise Storage Group. "Zuma's high bandwidth LightReef IP switches coupled with scalable multi-processing Linux provides an attractive and open platform option for quickly creating the next generation of highly scalable, high bandwidth IP storage switching systems." About Zuma Networks Zuma Networks (http://www.zumanetworks.com) is a dynamic, pre-IPO growth company driving the future emergence of IP services within high-speed network fabrics. The company is the first provider to combine the performance and scalability benefits of embedded network system hardware with the rapid time to market and open interfaces of general-purpose operating systems. Zuma Networks' LightReef switch routing platforms integrate layer 2/3/4 switching and multi-processing Linux IP services in a scalable and open platform. For more information, contact the company at: Zuma Networks Inc. 8403 Fallbrook Avenue West Hills, CA 91304 (ph) 818-593-5333; (fx) 818-313-8995 Zuma Networks is a technology investment partner of MRV Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:MRVC MRVC Multiple Rate Voice Card ). For more information, visit http://www.mrv MRV minute respiratory volume. .com. |
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