DSS NETWORKS, The Gigabit Experts™, TODAY ANNOUNCED A NEW 12-PORT PICMG 2.16 COMPLIANT GIGABIT ETHERNET BACKPLANE SWITCH BLADE FOR EMBEDDED & REAL-TIME TELECOM/DATACOM APPLICATIONS.

(PRWEB) September 3, 2003

CONTACT:

Robert Borish

DSS Networks, Inc.

+1.949.727.2490

borish@dssnetworks.com

DSS NETWORKS, The Gigabit Experts™, TODAY ANNOUNCED A NEW 12-PORT PICMG 2.16 COMPLIANT GIGABIT ETHERNET BACKPLANE SWITCH BLADE FOR EMBEDDED & REAL-TIME TELECOM/DATACOM APPLICATIONS.

Irvine, CA DSS Networks announces another innovative board level product – a high-performance scalable 12-port Compact PCI PICMG 2.16 compliant 6U switch fabric blade - demonstrating commitment to quality board and system level products targeted for OEMS and integrators of embedded and real-time telecom/datacom systems.

MetroSwitch Model 8261. The model 8261 features 12 ports of 10/100/1000 Base T Gigabit Ethernet over Copper with two 1000 Base SX/LX fiber uplinks. It is PICMG 2.16 6U fabric card compliant and compatible with both standard CompactPCI® and PICMG 2.16 backplanes. All 12-ports may be routed to slots on the Compact PCI backplane or externally via rear I/O. A system management interface is also supported via the PICMG 2.9 IPMI interface. It optionally supports two 1000 base SX/LX gigabit fiber ports with standard SFF LC connectors via the front panel. It has an onboard RISC/DSP processor for local management and can be operated as a standalone or fully managed switch. LEDS are provided for each port showing link status, transmit and receive and link quality. All LEDS are multifunction and can be used for additional functions including cable testing and energy detection. It is also PICMG 2.1 R2.0 hot-swap compliant providing support for the hardware connection layer.

The model 8261 uses the latest advanced high-performance, full-featured and highly integrated 12-port Broadcom BCM5690 multilayer switch and BCM5464SR quad-port transceivers and is fully 802.3 compliant. It provides a fully non-blocking 24Gb/32 million frames per second aggregate switching fabric.

The switching function supports an extended list of features including layer 3 switching, link aggregation, 802.1Q VLANs, 802.1D spanning tree and priority-based 802.1D/802.1p CoS/traffic class expediting and dynamic multicast filtering. The switch can be configured in a fully redundant, non-blocking network that prevents single points of failure from congesting network traffic. It provides advanced cell and packet based “head of line” blocking prevention techniques, has 1MB of onboard memory for packet buffering, and supports a 10-gig uplink interface.

Extended ethernet frame sizes to 9KB are supported. Additional advanced features including rules-based layer 2-7 packet classification/filtering on 128 multiple data flows, port trunking and port mirroring are provided for advanced networking and flow techniques. Network management support includes fully configurable routing tables and RMON, SNMP, Ethernet and extended MIB(s). A 32-bit, 66 MHZ PCI interface is also provided to support system management via the PCI bus and the switch can additionally route packets to/from the PCI interface as a “virtual port” function. This would allow for example, SNMP or other management packets to be routed to an external processing component in a distributed network management scheme.

Future options for the model 8261 will include 10-Gigabit fiber uplink and a gigahertz-speed network processor engine with gigabit interfaces for applications including wire-speed packet processing, filtering, monitoring, security and digital video transmission.

The MetroSwitch model 8261 12-port switch is targeted for OEMs and Systems Integrators for use in Data and Telecommunications products including switches, multiplexers, edge routers, media gateways and video broadcasting equipment. It is well suited for support of embedded broadband applications including Internet voice, digital video, IP security, network monitoring, military applications and test equipment. This product is available now with an OEM Developers Kit containing onboard firmware, device drivers, library functions, configuration management interfaces, loopback tests, benchmark programs, statistics and documentation.

DSS Networks, Inc. is a privately funded company located in Irvine CA and designs and manufactures embedded high-performance next generation Broadband Networking products based on technologies including Gigabit Ethernet, 10-Gigabit Ethernet, Sonet, OC-48 and DWDM.

For more information, visit their website at http://www.dssnetworks.com or send an e-mail to info@dssnetworks.com

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