10GB Layer 3+ Switch From Allied Telesis

To quench all your bandwidth thirst, Allied Telesis is Launching x900 12 Port Layer 3+ Switch to the Americas at at Interop Las Vegas.

San Jose, California, USA. April 18, 2008 – Allied Telesis Inc., a global provider of secure IP/Ethernet access solutions and an industry leader in the deployment of IP Triple Play networks over copper and fiber access infrastructures, today announced the product launch of their new Gigabit switch within the Americas at Interop Las Vegas April 28 to May 2, 2008. Allied Telesis Inc. will be launching its new product – an addition to the x900 series (AT-x900-12XT/S), an advanced Layer 3+ switch with 12 Gigabit 10/100/1000T or SFP combination ports and one 30Gbps expansion bay supporting a choice of modules, including 1 x 10GbE, 12 x 1GbE (SFP), 12 x 1GbE (RJ-45).

Would you like to see for yourself what this switch can do?

If so, you are invited to attend the AT-x900-12XT/S preview event at: www.alliedtelesis.com/interop08 which will be held at the Mandalay Bay Hotel from April 28-30, 2008 during the Interop show.

Marking Territory on Performance and Price Point

"Our launch of the AT-x900-12XT/S proves once again that Allied Telesis continues to deliver the best possible performance at a very cost-effective price point," said Phil Jopa, CTO of the Americas at Allied Telesis. "The Americas market has true need for a high-end Layer 3+ switch that provides a 10 Gigabit uplink with a mix of 12 copper and fiber ports. Combined with its sophisticated QoS features, the AT-x900-12XT/S provides superior value and performance to both our enterprise customers and service providers alike.”

Product Spotlight

Allied Telesis will be launching the AT-x900-12XT/S and other new products for Gigabit switching deployments during the Interop Las Vegas conference at the Mandalay Hotel from April 28-30, 2008.

x900 series (AT-x900-12XT/S)

The AT-x900-12XT/S has flexible deployment options that are ideal for networks that only require a small number of mixed fiber and copper links and eliminate the need for a media converter to use both interfaces on the same switch.

To further reduce the cost of the AT-x900-12XT/S, Allied Telesis provides a fixed AC power supply with the device instead of the dual, hot swappable units delivered as standard with the other members of the x900 series.

Allied Telesis' new AT-x900-12XT/S is delivered with a range of low latency QoS features operating at wirespeed. These include flow-based traffic management with configurable classification, prioritization, traffic shaping and minimum/maximum bandwidth profiles. Time-sensitive services like voice and video take precedence over non-critical activities, such as file downloads.

With these features, the AT-x900-12XT/S is ideal for customers wanting to guarantee the performance of their key business services, such as VoIP, and increase the reliability and responsiveness of their most important enterprise applications. In addition, service providers benefit from these features by being able to offer bandwidth and performance profiles tailored to each customer's precise needs.

The AT-x900-12XT/S incorporates the AlliedWare Plus™ operating system, using an industry standard Command Line Interface (CLI), facilitating effortless manageability.

The AT-x900-12XT/S delivers flexible extension options with a 30Gbps expansion bay that can be populated with a range of different modules, including:

• AT-XEM-12S 12 x 1000X SFP XEM module
• AT-XEM-12T 12 x 10/100/1000T RJ-45 XEM module
• AT-XEM-1XP 1 x 10GbE XFP XEM module
• AT-XEM-STK stacking module

Using the stacking modules, customers can stack multiple switches.

The AT-x900-12XT/S, with full non-blocking switching on all ports, enables IPv4 Layer 2 switching and Layer 3 routing to operate at wirespeed, making it ideal for high-end server deployments. Like the other switches in the x900 series, the new device uses the newest switch silicon including hardware-based IPv6, effectively future-proofing it for Small to Medium-sized Businesses.

Other Product Highlights

Allied Telesis will also be highlighting another new product at the conference that combines reliability and ease-of-use with cost-effective deployment.

• The SwitchBlade® x908 is the newest Allied Telesis advanced multi-layer 10 Gigabit series of switch. It provides fine service provisioning granularity, high availability, and advanced QoS. This switch incorporates a switching core that yields wirespeed IPv4 and IPv6 routing.

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