Tuesday, May 18, 2010

GE Intelligent Offers Flexible, High Bandwidth Gigabit Ethernet Switch

The General Electric Company - is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in the State of New York. In 2009, Forbes ranked GE as the world's largest company. The company has 304,000 employees around the world.

Voip-Solutions - Ethernet as a technology completely dominates the enterprise environment and is rapidly entrenching itself in the residential market as a result of the widespread uptake of broadband services. To design the challenging application in telecommunication, industrial and military systems, GE Intelligent Platforms has introduced the NETernity CP921RC-30x 6U CompactPCI (News - Alert) 24-port Gigabit Ethernet switch to satisfy large-scale, wholesale needs for high-speed Ethernet technology across the world. It is a fully managed Layer 2/3+ switch with support for ‘future-proof’ IPv6 switching and routing.

As part of GE Intelligent’s extensive Ethernet services portfolio, this vital new functionality is included in the form of Failover Groups, a feature that is part of GE’s OpenWare switch management environment.

FOG responds to o the need for very high availability networks. It is designed to support redundancy at different levels – redundant links across backplanes from nodes to switches, redundant switches, and redundant links to external networks. This gives fast, application-independent, failover capabilities, suitable for a wide range of network configurations, from the simple to the very complex.
This unique cost-effective unique combination of innovative hardware and software technologies delivers leading edge functionality, flexibility and availability to meet the increasing demand for international bandwidth in the global Ethernet services market.

Richard Spiesman, product manager at GE Intelligent Platforms (News - Alert) stated that as network traffic and dependency on the network increases, there is also an increased need for Ethernet switches that are high performance, high bandwidth and that offer the functionality necessary to deliver outstanding network uptime. He continued that this new addition to company’s extensive NETernity family of switches rises to the challenge and provides a sustainable competitive advantage for customers.
The CP921RC-30x is optionally available with two front panel 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports and two Gigabit Ethernet ports capable of supporting SFP+ and SFP transceivers (which can be copper or fiber) respectively for greater configuration flexibility. The OpenWare software environment, designed specifically for the NETernity range of switches, provides a substantially improved user experience for application development and support.

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