Product category:
Networking Hardware
News Release from: GE Fanuc Embedded Systems | Subject: Neternity RM921, RM922RC and
CP921RC switches
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 06 April 2007
New Ethernet switches support IPv4 and
v6
Three new products in the Neternity family of layer 2/3 Gigabit Ethernet switches support both IPv4 for backward compatibility and IPv6 for future requirements.
GE Fanuc Embedded Systems has announced three new products in its Neternity family of layer 2/3 Gigabit Ethernet switches These products demonstrate the company's commitment to providing systems that are both backward compatible with existing infrastructures and forward compatible with emerging requirements
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 Jun 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
Related stories
AdvancedTCA SBC goes parallel with two Xeons
The ATCA-7820 is an AdvancedTCA single board computer offering two dual-core Intel Xeon processors LV 2.0GHz and up to 8Gbyte DDR-2 400 SDRAM with ECC.
VMEbus board boosts performance and cuts power
The V5D is a 6U VMEbus single board computer that uses the 1.4GHz Pentium M processor LV 738 for improved performance and lower power requirements.
The new fully managed switches designed to handle the demanding requirements of a broad range of applications including military, telecommunications and commercial, are: the Neternity RM921 6U VME switch; the ROHS-compliant Neternity RM922RC 6U VME switch; and the Neternity CP921RC ROHS-compliant PICMG 2.16 6U CompactPCI switch.
All three switches support 24 copper ports, with the RM921 being optionally available with 12 ports, and are characterised by their support of IPv4 for legacy communications environments and hardware enabled IPv6 for future applications.
IPv6 is mandated by the US Department of Defense for all programs from 2008.
Further reading
PowerPC-based cPCI board boasts more flexible I/O
6U CompactPCI single board computer uses a 1GHz MPC7447A or 1.4GHz MPC7448 Freescale processor and extensive I/O ports for improved performance and flexible, rugged functionality.
AMC module hosts intelligent network processor
AdvancedMC module is one of the first cost-effective packet processors that is available now for customers, and is ideal for compact MicroTCA systems.
Conformal coating is an option for all three boards.
The three new products are the first in the Neternity family to feature the OpenWare switch-management environment.
OpenWare is portable across switch fabrics and processor environments, is easy to customise using the familiar Linux command line interface and is designed to make selected Neternity switches easy to deploy and easy to manage.
Switch management is also possible via remote access or using a management protocol such as SNMP.
"Our line of fully managed IPv6-enabled switches brings cost-effective high-speed network connectivity to a wide range of challenging applications", says Rubin Dhillon, Communications Product Manager for GE Fanuc Embedded Systems.
"With our experience, knowledge and design practices, we have crafted Neternity Ethernet switches that deliver exceptional performance while operating in demanding environments".
The Neternity RM921 is an IPv6-enabled 6U VME fully managed layer 2/3+ Gigabit Ethernet switch with either 12 front I/O (single slot solution) or 24 front I/O ports (dual slot solution).
It also offers support for IPv4.
Port configuration can be all copper, all fibre or combinations of both.
Also optionally available are 100BaseFX ports so that both 100BaseFX and Gigabit Ethernet interfaces can be supported on the same network interface card, a valuable feature for organisations migrating from 100Mbit/s to 1000Mbit/s applications.
An industrial temperature version is available.
The Neternity RM922RC is an ROHS-compliant IPv6-enabled 6U VME fully managed layer 2/3 Gigabit Ethernet switch with 24 copper ports (single slot solution) via rear I/O.
The Neternity CP921RC is an ROHS-compliant PICMG 2.16 6U CompactPCI fully managed layer 2/3 Gigabit Ethernet switch with 24 copper ports, and is hot-swappable, minimising potential system downtime.
It is also compliant with PICMG 2.1 and PICMG 2.9.
• GE Fanuc Embedded Systems: contact details and other news
• Email this article to a colleague
• Register for the free Electronicstalk email newsletter
• Electronicstalk Home Page
Search the Pro-Talk network of sites
