Designed for challenging applications in telecommunications, industrial and military systems, it is a fully managed layer 2/3+ switch with support for ‘future-proof' IPv6 switching and routing.
Important new functionality is included in the form of Failover Groups (FOG), a feature that is part of GE's Open Ware switch management environment.
Responding to the need for very high availability networks, FOG is designed to support redundancy at different levels - redundant links across backplanes from nodes to switches, and redundant links to external networks.
This provides fast, application-independent, failover capabilities, suitable for a wide range of network configurations, from simple to the very complex.
This unique combination of innovative hardware and software technologies delivers leading functionality, flexibility and availability.
The CP921RC-30x is optionally available with two front panel 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports and two Gigabit Ethernet ports capable of supporting SFP+ and SFP transceivers (which can be copper or fibre) respectively for greater configuration flexibility.
The Open Ware software environment, designed specifically for the NETernity range of switches, provides a substantially improved user experience for application development and support.
Additional functionality or customisation can be simply incorporated within Open ware according to customer requirements.
The Open Ware switch management environment provides a full and robust set of configuration and management functions including VLANs, Quality of Service, Link Aggregation, SNMP, MSTP, Multicast, and so on; these can be implemented via a serial console, Telnet or the Web.
PICMG 2.16- and RoHS compliant, the CP921RC-30x Ethernet switch supports high-availability hot swap as well as IPMI v1.5 to further improve availability, maintainability and manageability.
As well as supporting Layer-2/3+ switching, it can support Layer 4-7 switching when required.
A variety of rear transition boards are available to provide rear I/O configuration flexibility beyond the flexibility delivered by the CP921RC's optional front panel ports.
The CP921RC-30x is also available in an extended temperature variant for demanding industrial applications.
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