ADTRAN Launches ActivChassis Technology to Provide a Geographically Flexible, High-Bandwidth Switching Solution
Huntsville, AL
Posted on: Jan 22, 2013
ActivChassis enables businesses to achieve greater efficiency and flexibility in delivering bandwidth-intensive applications
“The demand for constructing highly resilient, high-performance networks that are simple to manage is ever increasing,” said
ActivChassis enables up to eight switches to be interconnected and actively managed as a single, intelligent system, allowing users to control up to 400 switch ports across distances up to 10,000 meters. ActivChassis allows network administrators to log into the stack, view all available switch ports, make changes, and have all switches in the stack share a single configuration file and IP address.
“Our SME customers face a number of issues as they are looking to enhance their wired infrastructure – the need to maintain multiple switch configurations; the need for manpower overhead to administer switches spread across different wiring closets; and the need to improve network resiliency, as their businesses depend on it,” said
The modular design of the NetVanta 1600 series Gigabit Ethernet switches allows for a variety of flexible ActivChassis stacking architectures no matter the customer environment. For example, backplane throughput speeds up to 128 Gbps can be achieved when used with the NetVanta 1600 Dual Stacking Module for high-speed connectivity. This configuration provides ample bandwidth for even the most demanding business applications such as enterprise-wide wireless, converged voice and data, private Cloud, high-availability network servers and more. In addition, the NetVanta 1600 Dual SFP+ Module allows ActivChassis configurations that span multiple wiring closets and even across entire campus deployments. When configured in a ring topology, all uplinks ports are fully utilized resulting in no single point of failure in the network. In the unlikely event one switch goes down, all other switches in the stack remain connected and active for maximum network resiliency.
ActivChassis technology will be available as a software upgrade for the NetVanta 1638 and the NetVanta 1638P Gigabit Ethernet switches beginning
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