Multilayer Switch Router

The new X-Pedition ER16 backbone routing platform is designed to meet the increase in demand on the enterprise core backbone. The platform provides outstanding capacity, performance and a complete set of application services, enabling corporate networks and e-businesses to optimize and control their networks to meet critical business goals.

The router delivers four times the Gigabit routing capacity as the company's current routing offerings, and provides a comprehensive set of advanced application services, including traffic prioritization, traffic shaping, multilayer security, application load balancing, application content verification and high availability. These advanced services provide critical control of business-centric applications such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), SAP, database, e-commerce, multimedia, and converged voice, video and data. For ease-of-use, the ER16 utilizes the same firmware set as all other X-Pedition routers, providing consistency in feature sets across the entire product line.

With 16 slots, up to 128 Gbps of non-blocking switch fabric, support for up to 128 Gigabit Ethernet ports or up to 460 10/100 ports, and more than 4 million Layer 4 application traffic flows, the router provides the capacity needed for enterprise LAN, WAN or campus backbone infrastructures. Additionally, the device is designed to scale to deliver future, high-capacity technologies such as 10 Gigabit Ethernet and Packet over SONET.

Enterasys Networks, Inc., 35 Industrial Way, Rochester, NH 03866. Tel: 603-332-9400; Fax: 603-332-8007.