Interface Masters Technologies Intros New Family of Embedded Switches

Interface Masters (News - Alert) Technologies, an innovator in networking solutions, today introduced a new family of Embedded Switches (ES) targeted at networking appliances, servers, server blades and embedded computing applications. The Niagara 130x Family is a fully featured embedded Ethernet switch that provides Layer2/Layer3 Gigabit Ethernet and is ready to be integrated into servers by connecting via a serial or Ethernet connection, which enables quick time to market for complex networking appliances.

 

The family is based on the Vitesse SparX-G24 and provides non blocking, wire-speed Gigabit performance on all ports, using an internal 46-Gbps frame bus. The devices are optimized for SMB and SOHO for unmanaged, as well as managed, applications. Due to the internal memory buffers, which are sufficient in size to absorb substantial bursts, no external memory is required.

 

“Interface Masters has been providing solution to its customers for the past several years and we will continue expanding and introducing reliable and cost effective products to meet customer requirements,” said Ben Askarinam, senior VP at Interface Masters Technologies.

 

“The ES family of products will provide flexibility to the OEMs and system integrators by providing a production ready and reliable solution. The ES family of products enables OEMs and system integrators to use off the shelf CPU motherboards to build low cost and powerful networking appliances and specialized servers,” added Askarinam.

 

The Niagara 130x Embedded Switch family supports IEEE (News - Alert) 802.1Q standard as well as Jumbo Frame support at all speeds up to 10 KB. Also featured are IEEE standards 802.1w and 802.1s for Layer 2 switching, which are based on rapid spanning tree protocol and multiple spanning tree support.

 

The switches come with an array of Quality of Service (QoS) features, such as programmable multi-layer classifier with four QoS classes per port; strict priority or weighted round-robin forwarding with guaranteed bandwidth allocation; provider bridging support with multiple VLAN tags; broadcast and multicast storm control; and traffic shaping and policing per port in steps of 128 kbps.

 

Interface Masters Technologies have built adequate security into the Embedded Switch family. The switches support port-based access control support, VLAN awareness on a per port basis, source IP filter per port to block unwanted access, DHCP filter to block unwanted DHCP servers on a per port basis; and multiple ARP filters for detection of ARP intrusion scans.

 

The Niagara 1300, Niagara 1301 and Niagara 1302 Embedded switches are available now and are targeted at OEMs and System Integrators, who build systems targeting the Telcos, ISPs and critical IT sector requiring Security, UTM market, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Intrusion (News - Alert) Detection and Prevention and WAN Acceleration.