Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has introduced the new 288-port GLX4000 series physical layer switch. The GLX4000 288 system, housed in an 8U chassis, delivers double the port capacity of its predecessor, the GLX4000 144, and offers expandable crossbar switch performance.

The GLX4000 288 is a non-blocking, crossbar switch that enables any of a variety of input signals to be connected to any of its 288 output ports. Protocols supported include: 1/2/4/10G Fibre Channel, 10/100/1000/10G Ethernet, FDDI, SONET/SDH OC-3, OC-12, OC-48, HD, SDI, FICON, ESCON, iSCSI, InfiniBand, and Firewire, as well as other non-standard serial protocols.

The 19" rackable GLX4000 288 uses a chassis and blade architecture that provides network designers with a way to expand the crossbar switch as needs grow. The system chassis can accommodate up to six hot-swappable 48-port interface blades configured to support SFP or Firewire (1394B) at speeds up to 4.25 Gb/s. The switch can also be configured to accept direct Firewire connections at rates up 1600 Mb/s. Because the GLX4000's blades all connect to a common backplane, the switch's cross-connect functionality extends across any combination of blades and ports.

The GLX4000 288 enables all devices to be connected "under test," after which all topology changes or fault tests can be made through the GUI and CLI. Scripts can be written in PERL, TCL or other scripting languages using the CLI and used to remotely update topologies and emulate optical power loss or cable breaks. The GLX4000 288 supports the sharing of resources such as analyzers, sniffers or data recorders.

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