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Alcatel Rolls out OmniSwitch Family
February 12, 2002
By Bob Woods
French networker Alcatel (Quote) said it has launched a new generation of network switches built to provide unsurpassed availability and intelligence for medium to large enterprises with mission critical data, voice, and video applications.
These products include the Alcatel OmniSwitch 7700 for the next generation edge, Alcatel OmniSwitch 7800 for the medium enterprise core or large wiring closet, and Alcatel OmniSwitch 8800 for the large enterprise core.
Alcatel's OmniSwitch family provides carrier-class functionality at an enterprise cost with easy manageability, along with multi-service infrastructure for IP telephony and mission-critical applications, officials said. Alcatel said it engineered the OmniSwitch family on the pillars of availability, security, intelligence and manageability to deliver the industry's first infrastructure built from the ground up for convergence.
The Alcatel OmniSwitch 7000 series is described as the industry's first IP wiring closet switch family that is as reliable as the high-capacity switches built for the network core, at a cost similar to products without this high reliability. They benefit from a distributed switch architecture that provides redundancy of critical hardware and software elements and allows continuous traffic processing in any network condition. This makes the OmniSwitch 7700 and high-density OmniSwitch 7800 ideal edge switches for the real-time requirements that voice and video put on the network infrastructure, officials said.
Alcatel's OmniSwitch 7800 and OmniSwitch 8800 bring carrier class availability to the core of medium and large enterprise networks, the company also said. The OmniSwitch family's distributed architecture delivers more wire rate services than any other solution on the market today. These services include wire speed layer 2 and layer 3, quality of service (QoS), access control list, as well as embedded server load balancing for mainstream enterprise requirements.
The Alcatel OmniSwitch 7800 is a medium-sized enterprise core switch that provides a Gigabit Ethernet density up to 192 ports with a throughput of 60 million packets per second (Mpps). The Alcatel OmniSwitch 8800 is Alcatel's ideal solution for true 10-Gigabit Ethernet connectivity. It provides a Gigabit Ethernet density of up to 384 ports, with a throughput up to 240 Mpps.
The OmniSwitch 7700 starts at $11,000, while the OmniSwitch 7800 starts at $16,000. Both products will be available in the second quarter. The OmniSwitch 8800 will be available in the third quarter, and pricing is not currently available. All products will be available worldwide.
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