HP's latest switch hits the high end

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: JEFF CARUSO ON HIGH SPEED LANS
06/09/05
Today's focus: HP's latest switch hits the high end

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* HP's ProCurve Routing Switch 9408sl
* Links related to High Speed LANs
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Today's focus: HP's latest switch hits the high end

By Jeff Caruso

HP this week unveiled a high-end LAN switch designed to deliver
high bandwidth to a network core, many high-speed connections to
desktops, or both.

The ProCurve Routing Switch 9408sl will support up to 32 ports
of 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 480 ports of Gigabit Ethernet or 320
mini-GBICs across its eight module slots.

HP claims the switch has a throughput of up to 480 million
packets per second (with 64-byte packets) and a routing and
switching capacity of 1.28 terabits per second.

Interestingly, IPv6 is supported in the hardware of the Layer 3
switch, so HP can claim wirespeed routing and switching with
both IPv4 and IPv6.

HP has brought many other features to the switch. For instance,
the 9408sl can do "policy-based routing," where network usage is
controlled through access control lists. Traffic flows can be
prioritized based on port, virtual LAN, source MAC, ACL, 802.1p,
type-of-service bits, or DiffServ settings.

Redundancy is part of the offering as well - the switch has the
ability to automatically fail over to another switch, an
optional redundant power supply and optional redundant
management modules.

As you can imagine, this is not a small device, but it's not
that big, either; it's 15U high and weighs 242 pounds, fully
loaded.

The switch was introduced as part of a larger announcement of
management software, which my colleague Denise Dubie wrote about
here:
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/060605-hp-openview.html>

The switch is expected to ship in August. Pricing starts at
$310,000 for a configuration with 20 ports of 10 Gigabit
Ethernet.

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