Bangkok--Feb 1--Lucent Technologies
Lucent Technologies today launched the Cajunิ Campus Solutions, a comprehensive local area network (LAN) product portfolio which incorporates products and technologies resulting from Lucent’s acquisitions of LANNET, Prominet Corporation and Agile Networks; as well as technology from Lucent’s Bell Laboratories.
United under this new product brand, the Cajun Campus Solutions comprise highly scalable and reliable switching products that support multimedia environments and both legacy and future technologies. They are designed to alleviate the explosive bandwidth requirements and increasing demands associated with the convergence of data, voice and video applications across enterprise networks.
Lucent’s Ethernet, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and multifunction switches range from sophisticated stackable units serving desktops, to high-performance backbone chassis capable of moving vast amounts of data traffic easily and quickly. All products in the portfolio share a common naming convention, and are now identified in the market by Lucent’s expanding Cajun brand .
Designed and built by Lucent at Bell Laboratories and Technology Centers and in the United States and Tel Aviv, Israel, these initial members of Lucent’s Cajun Campus product suite support from hundreds to tens of thousands of connections on a network. They also scale in performance from four gigabits per second (Gbps) to 80 Gbps.
According to Amarjit Momi, Offer Manager, Data Networking Systems, Lucent Technologies, "Our Cajun Campus products span the entire performance and configuration range from multigigabit stackable units with true stacking scalability, to backbone chassis switches with up to 80 gigabits per second of switching capacity. This superb technology offers better reliability, manageability and advanced quality of service at significantly lower costs than the previous generation. Our customers can deploy networks today that will take them far into the future, while fully accommodating their complex migration needs."
"Our future plans are quite aggressive in this space," Mr Momi continued. "Several additional new products that will further cement our technology leadership are targeted for introduction in 1999."
Unique SMON Capabilities The Cajun Campus products take advantage of its unrivaled Switch MONitoring (SMONิ) functionality, the only network management application that enables managers to view traffic anywhere in the network, from a single link to the entire network at once. Developed by LANNET, SMON allows simultaneous monitoring of real-time network traffic across multiple switches in a network and across all ports in a single switch. The Cajun P110, M400 and M770 product families all support SMON today, and other members of the Cajun Campus portfolio will have this unique capability by mid-1999.
Network Management Lucent’s Cajun Campus portfolio is managed by the CajunViewิ suite of SNMP-based network management applications. These applications are integrated with HP's OpenView (UNIX and Windows), and IBM’s NetView/AIX platforms. NetCare Services All Cajun Campus products are supported by Lucent’s NetCareา Services organization, a global team of service and support professionals who provide a broad set of consulting, integration, management and maintenance services for multivendor data and video networks, voice systems and networks and call centers.
Cajun Campus Product Details With over 10 different models available, the Cajun P110 Switching System is a series of sophisticated stackable switches designed to cost-effectively meet the networking needs of medium-sized enterprises, as well as smaller sites of large enterprises. The P110 enables up to four switch units to be stacked, connected together by an external four Gbps, non-blocking backplane that allows users to mix-and-match 10/100/1000 megabits per second (Mbps) Ethernet and ATMพall managed as a single logical switch. The P110 family offers up to 96 switched 10 Mbps ports and up to 100 switched 10/100 Mbps ports in a stack, plus high-speed uplinks for additional 100 Mbps, Gigabit Ethernet or ATM OC-3 connectivity.
Lucent’s Cajun P220 Gigabit Switches are a family of fixed-configuration workgroup and wiring closet switches that also support smaller gigabit backbones. The P220 is available in two base versions: the P220FE offers 24 ports of 10/100 Mbps Ethernet with one Gigabit Ethernet port, while the P220G provides seven ports of Gigabit Ethernet. Both the P220FE and the P220G have an optional expansion slot that supports either an additional Gigabit Ethernet port, two fiber Fast Ethernet ports or four, 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ports. The P220 family seamlessly integrates with legacy network equipment, and incorporates Lucent’s unique OpenTrunkิ technology that allows it to interoperate with Virtual LANs from 3Com and Cisco.
The Cajun M400 Gate Switches are modular, multifunction, data center platforms designed to bring the benefits of high-speed switching and routing to legacy networks. Available in three chassis sizes, ranging from five to 18 slots, the M400 line integrates support for 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet, ATM, FDDI and multilayer switching into a single platform with extensive fault tolerance and redundancy features.
The award-winning M400 family is ideal for migrating routed or legacy switched networks to next-generation Gigabit Ethernet and ATM technologies, and provides the switching throughput and class-leading latency and jitter performance that enable the introduction of voice/video applications over both high-speed and legacy networks. The M400’s available hardware-based IP/IPX routing module combines over one million
packets per second forwarding speed with full support for routing protocols such as RIP and OSPF, enabling compatibility with existing routed networks while providing high-speed routing performance over existing Ethernet and FDDI backbones.
Optimized for integration with Lucent’s DEFINITYา ATM Enterprise Communications Server, the Cajun A500 ATM Switch is a mid-sized,10 Gbps backbone platform that offers up to 32 OC-3 ports, up to eight OC-12 ports and, in the future, DS-3 interfaces. For support of convergence of voice, video and data for multimedia applications, the modular Cajun A500 incorporates advanced Bell Labs traffic management algorithms, and also provides end-to-end clock synchronization designed specifically for voice over ATM. With flexible buffering, industry-standard ATM signaling and traffic prioritization, the A500 can handle up to 25 percent more switched voice and data traffic than competitive solutions.
Lucent’s acclaimed Gigabit Ethernet platform, the Cajun P550 Gigabit Routing Switch, is a multilayer (Layer 2 switching; Layer 3 routing), 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet switch designed for wire-speed, campus-wide backbones and high-density, high-performance closets. With its 45.76 Gbps backplane switching capacity, the P550 provides up to 33 million packets per second of Layer 2 switching capacity, or up to 18 million packets per second of Layer 3 IP and IPX routing capacityพall in a compact, fault-tolerant modular chassis. The P550 supports up to 24 full-duplex Gigabit Ethernet ports, up to 120 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ports or up to 60 fiber Fast Ethernet ports. Similar to the P220 family, the Cajun P550 also effortlessly integrates with legacy data network equipment and includes Lucent’s OpenTrunk VLAN interoperability functionality.
The modular, enterprise-class Cajun M770 Multifunction Switch is designed specifically to provide the reliability required for the convergence of voice, data and video into a common infrastructure, and features its unique Switch Architecture For Extreme Resiliency (SAFERิ) that distributes critical switching, management and processing functions.
A true multifunction platform, the fault-tolerant M770 has an aggregate throughput of 80 Gbps, and can simultaneously support both Ethernet and ATM switch modules anywhere in the chassis. As an Ethernet switch, the M770 provides up to 120 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ports, or 24 Gigabit Ethernet ports with 72 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ports in a chassis with available hardware-based IP/IPX routing capability. The Cajun M770 can also accommodate switch modules from the Cajun M400, giving it the ability to support legacy networks.
As a backbone ATM switch, the M770 is Lucent’s high-end campus ATM offering combining capacity for up to 210 OC-3 ports with unique scalable and redundant LANE and, in the future, up to 70 OC-12 ports, 14 OC-48 ports and MPOA services. The M770 also supports clock synchronization with Lucent’s DEFINITY ATM Enterprise Communications Server to provide a high-availability infrastructure that supports both voice and data over ATM applications.
Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronic components. Bell Labs is the research and development arm for the company. More information about Lucent Technologies is available on the company’s Web site at: www.lucent.com.
Cajun, CajunView, NetCare, OneVision, OpenTrunk, SAFER and SMON are trademarks or registered trademarks of Lucent Technologies. All other product and company names mentioned may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. End.