ActivChassis enables businesses to achieve greater efficiency and
flexibility in delivering bandwidth-intensive applications
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 2013--
ADTRAN®,
Inc., (NASDAQ:ADTN), a leading provider of cloud connectivity,
virtual mobility and enterprise communications solutions, today
announced ActivChassis stacking technology for its NetVanta® 1600 series
of Gigabit Ethernet switches that enables businesses to achieve greater
efficiency and flexibility in delivering bandwidth-intensive
applications. ActivChassis is a software feature that allows network
administrators to interconnect multiple switches and view the stack as a
single, logical chassis-like system, with control and management
consolidated to a single viewpoint. In order to ensure constant
infrastructure uptime and deliver control efficiency in the network,
ActivChassis provides backplane switching capacity up to 128 Gbps, the
ability to interconnect switches scattered across a campus environment
and specialized features for network high-availability.
“The demand for constructing highly resilient, high-performance networks
that are simple to manage is ever increasing,” said Alex Morrow,
President of AbovePoint Technologies in Dallas, TX. “ActivChassis
provides this benefit for our customers while simultaneously allowing
them to incrementally grow their network as their business grows. This
flexibility coupled with ADTRAN’s industry-leading support and warranty
enables us to deliver solutions for our customers that are second to
none.”
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 Todd
Lattanzi, director of product management for ADTRAN’s Enterprise
Networks Division. “In our continued commitment to providing valuable
solutions, ActivChassis enables businesses of all sizes—from small and
medium enterprises to large campus environments—to cost-effectively grow
their network to accommodate bandwidth-hungry services and devices,
simplify network administration and enhance network redundancy.”
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
January 2013.
About ADTRAN
ADTRAN, Inc. is a leading global provider of networking and
communications equipment. ADTRAN’s products enable voice, data, video
and Internet communications across a variety of network infrastructures.
ADTRAN solutions are currently in use by service providers, private
enterprises, government organizations, and millions of individual users
worldwide. For more information, please visit www.adtran.com.
Source: ADTRAN, Inc.
Connect2 Communications for ADTRAN
Ashley Baster, 919-435-9112
ashley@connect2comm.com