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Wire-speed switching - Brief Article - Product Announcement

Communications News, Sept, 2001

COMPACT SWITCH provides high port density, performance and redundancy features. The FastIron 4802 is a Layer 2/3 10/100 aggregation and access switch for enterprise and service provider networks. It has a wire-speed, nonblocking architecture that provides a total of 34 Gbps of switching capacity and 10.1 million packets per second switching performance. It features 48 10/100 ports and two Gigabit Ethernet ports in a compact 1.5U form factor. The unit has integrated ASIC-based, wire-speed bandwidth provisioning, network monitoring and traffic accounting. A granular bandwidth-provisioning feature allows administrators to enable bandwidth on demand from 1 Mbps to 1 Gbps, in increments of as little as 256 kbps. The product also has dual, load-sharing, internal AC and DC hot-swappable power supplies, hot-swappable mini-GBIC interfaces and a full complement of Layer 2/3 redundancy features.--Foundry Networks

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Wire-speed switching - Brief Article - Product Announcement

Communications News, Sept, 2001

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