Mountain View, California-based Allied Telesis Inc has a hybrid Asynchronous Transfer Mode/Ethernet workgroup switch, the CentreCom 4016. The product is said to support 16 10Base-T Ethernet ports, each of which can provide a dedicated 10Mbps connection to desktops or servers, and an Asynchronous Mode port that operates at 155Mbps full duplex. A modular Asynchronous Mode […]
Mountain View, California-based Allied Telesis Inc has a hybrid Asynchronous Transfer Mode/Ethernet workgroup switch, the CentreCom 4016. The product is said to support 16 10Base-T Ethernet ports, each of which can provide a dedicated 10Mbps connection to desktops or servers, and an Asynchronous Mode port that operates at 155Mbps full duplex. A modular Asynchronous Mode User-to- Network-Interface 3.0-compliant interface supports Synchronous Optical Network, SONET OC-3c and Synchronous Digital Hierachy Synchronous Transfer Mode-1 multimode fibre connections. The switch is also said to support 64 virtual local area networks and more than 2,000 Ethernet Media Access Control addresses. In addition, it features management software claimed to enable more than 1,000 switched virtual circuits to be created. On the network management side, Allied Telesis says that the offering incorporates both Telnet and Simple Network Management Protocol capabilities, enabling users to manage networks remotely from a terminal or workstation via software including HP OpenView, SunNet Manager and NetView. Software upgrades to support future Asynchronous Transfer Mode-standard capabilities or Allied Telesis product releases are achievable over the network via the BOOTP/Trivial File Transfer Protocol or by plug-in PCMCIA-compliant Flash memory cards on the front panel of the switch, says Allied Telesis. The CentreCom 4016 will ship at the end of the first quarter next year; no prices yet.
