SMC offers variety of LAN options

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: JEFF CARUSO ON HIGH SPEED LANS
09/15/05
Today's focus: SMC offers variety of LAN options

Dear networking.world@gmail.com,

In this issue:

* SMC Networks introduces products for three different kinds of
LANs
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Today's focus: SMC offers variety of LAN options

By Jeff Caruso

SMC Networks continues to act like the hardest-working company
in the LAN business - at least as far as product announcements
are concerned. The company over the past month or so has
released equipment for wireless, wireline and powerline.

The "powerline" portion came this week, as SMC previewed two
products that build on the HomePlug standard, which defines a
way to send network signals at up to 14M bit/sec over the
electrical lines in your home. SMC already offers network
adapters that plug into electrical outlets.

The Powerline to 802.11g 54M bit/sec Wireless Access Point
creates an opportunity to extend a wireless network, while the
Turbo Powerline to Ethernet Desktop Adapter uses the newer
HomePlug 1.0 Turbo specification, which promises to crank speeds
up to 85M bit/sec. SMC says it will introduce products
compatible with the 200M bit/sec HomePlug AV standard early next
year.

Also this week, SMC is shipping 16- and 24-port EZ Switch
10/100/1000 Gigabit "smart" switches for small businesses. These
are copper-based, managed switches with an 8K MAC address table
and jumbo frame support up to 9K bytes.

The 16-port version costs $330 and the 24-port version costs
$400.

Last month, the company said it will expand its wireless LAN
offerings with mesh networking products built on Accton
Technology's IEEE 802.11s-compliant Wireless Intelligent
Transport Network architecture.

Wireless mesh networks are best used in large coverage areas
where cable runs are impractical, SMC says. Each mesh access
point interacts with the others, and if a mesh link is down,
traffic is routed to other available links.

The products are expected to ship by year-end.

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Jeff Caruso is managing editor of online news for Network World.
He oversees daily online news posting and newsletter editing,
and writes the NetFlash daily news summary, the High-Speed LANs
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at <mailto:jcaruso@nww.com>
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This newsletter is sponsored by HP
FROM THE NETWORK CORE TO THE NETWORK EDGE

Traffic management becomes critical as your network
infrastructure expands to support different types of traffic and
users. Most traffic management solutions have serious
limitations: too expensive, difficult to use, and overly taxing
on bandwidth. However ProCurve Networking by HP addresses these
requirements, overcomes the limitations of other solutions, and
gives you valuable insight into LAN performance.
http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=114154
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