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Physical Layer Switches Provide Flexibility and Lab Automation

High-speed serial switch fabric technologies are steadily replacing bus solutions, especially in the realm of high performance computing. We offer switching solutions for constructing systems based on these new technologies.

Our physical layer switches are scalable, versatile, multi-purpose, multi-protocol switches that provide protocol transparent, low-latency switching for digital signals. With our switches network and system configurations can be made quickly and easily through an easy-to-use interface, thus saving time and money. They are available in a variety of form-factors.

These switches can handle a wide array of protocols including 1/2/4/10G Fibre Channel, 10/100/1000/10G Ethernet, FDDI, SONET/SDH OC-3, OC-12, OC-48, HD, SDI, as well as many non-standard protocols.

288 Port Physical Layer Switch Multi-Protocol
Need Lab Automation? Our 288Port Physical Layer Switch GLX4000 utilizes a chassis and blade architecture that provides an easy and cost-effective way to expand the crossbar switch as needs grow. The system chassis can accommodate up to three (6) hot-swappable interface blades, each with forty eight (48) SFP or Firewire ports. As the blades all connect to a common backplane, the cross connect functionality extends across any combination of blades and ports.

144 Port Physical Layer Switch Multi-Protocol

Our 144 Port Physical Layer Switch GLX4000 utilizes a chassis and blade architecture that provides an easy and cost-effective way to expand the crossbar switch as needs grow. The system chassis can accommodate up to three (3) hot-swappable interface blades, each with forty eight (48) SFP or Firewire ports. As the blades all connect to a common backplane, the cross connect functionality extends across any combination of blades and ports.

32 Port Physical Layer Switch 2.5 Multi-Protocol
The 32 Port Physical Layer Switch LinkXchange LX2500 is a multi-purpose, non-blocking 32-port crosspoint switch for digital signals at speeds up to 2.5 gigabits per second (Gbps). Any of its 32 outputs can be connected to any one of its 32 inputs. The protocol or structure of data routed through the switch is ignored by the LX2500 and is unaltered by its passage through the switch. This allows the LX2500 to be used with many different types of networks and signals - Fibre Channel, Serial FPDP, Sonet, HDTV, GigE.

32 Port Physical Layer Switch 1.5 Multi-Protocol
The 32 Port Physical Layer LinkXchange LX1500e is a multipurpose, non-blocking 32-port crossbar switch for digital signals at speeds up to 1.5 gigabits per second (Gbps). Any of the 32 outputs can be connected to any one of the 32 inputs. The protocol or structure of data routed through the hub is ignored by the LX1500e and is unaltered by its passage through the hub.

16 & 8 Port Physical Layer Switch
A single VME card provides an 8-port switch solution. The addition of an 8-port expansion card provides a total of 16 ports, with the ability to connect any of its 16 outputs to any one of its 16 inputs. Each port input provides an option of data retiming or bypassing the retiming circuitry altogether.

GigaVUE-MP Data Access Switch for Distributed Connectivity designed to enable “Distributed Connectivity” across mission-critical enterprise networks while simultaneously supporting a variety of “out-of-band” monitoring tools (protocol analyzers, application performance monitors, intrusion detection systems, RMON probes, forensic recorders, etc.)

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