Hitachi Cable announces 40Gbit box switches

TOKYO, JAPAN: Network equipment maker Hitachi Cable announced two 40 Gigabit port terabit box switches, Apresia 15000-64XL-PSR and Apresia 15000-32XL-PSR, from its Apresia series of Ethernet switches. The switches are expected to be launched at the end of February 2011.

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Apresia 15000-64XL-PSR (hereinafter called 64XL) is a terabit box switch that implements 2 40G uplink ports, and 64 1G/10G SFP/SFP+ ports on a 2U size unit.

Apresia15000-32XL-PSR (hereinafter called 32XL) is half the size of 64XL and implements 2 40G uplink ports, and 32 1G/10G SFP/SFP+ ports on a 1U size unit.

Switching capacities are 1.28 terabits/second for the 64XL, and 640 gigabits/second for the 32XL.

Power consumption of the 64XL and 32XL can be reduced down to 370W and 210W respectively.

Both the 64XL and 32XL are designed to be used as data centre switches, or network core switches and broadband L2 switches for enterprises and academic institutions.

Planned functions specific to data centre switches, include FCoE, storage I/O integrated technology, and DCB, a new Ethernet technical standard to realize FCoE, and other functions that support virtual server environments.

A data centre license and L3 license are optional and can be purchased in accordance with the intended use. Without such licenses, both the 64XL and 32XL perform as high-end L2 switches.