Northern Telecom unveils third broadband switch.

Multichannel News, December, 1993 by Lambert, Peter

ANAHEIM, CALIF. -- Northern Telecom continued its product development assault on the emerging broadband network industry yesterday, unveiling before the Western Show here yet another in its line of modular, broadband ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) switches. The standard Magellan Concorde backbone switch will offer 40-gigabits-per-second (Gbps) capacity, but is scalable down to 10 Gbps or up to 80 Gbps.

NT expects the 10-gigabit platform to be ready for lab trials in late 1994 and for full production by mid-1995. NT will address varying levels of applications with the switches, which are priced between $200,000 to $450,000, said Bill Conner, NT's vice president of marketing, broadband multimedia. The Magellan Passport switch, introduced last March, is...

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