News on GigaLabs - another SEEQ customer; another reason why the 97-98 sales picture looks very promising.
Network World - - April 28, 1997
HEADLINE: Gigabit Ethernet just keeps on rolling along
With the NetWorld+Interop 97 trade show right around the corner, it's no surprise that Gigabit Ethernet is the talk of the town.
The fast-advancing technology continued to build momentum last week as GigaLabs, Inc. rolled out a Gigabit Ethernet switch and Adaptec, Inc. unveileda 1G bit/sec adapter card. Start-ups Packet Engines, Inc. and Prominet Corp. also took an early step toward quashing interoperability concerns about Gigabit Ethernet: The companies reported the successful completion of tests aimed at showing that their products work together in customer networks.
GigaLabs bolstered its switch portfolio with the GigaStar 3000/S Gigabit Ethernet switch. The device allows customers to link servers, switches, disk storage systems, mainframes and supercomputers into one high-speed I/O switch.
The 16-slot chassis boasts a backplane capacity of 32G bit/sec and can support as many as 256 10M/100M bit/sec ports or 16 Gigabit Ethernet ports. The switch, which will be on display at Interop, supports GigaLabs' PCI-based GigaPipe technology for I/O connectivity at gigabit speeds (NW, Sept. 16, 1996,
page 10).
Key features of the GigaStar 3000/S include gigabit multicasting, which allows a datastream to be broadcast to multiple users on a local or campus network simultaneously. The switch also offers Layer 3 IP switching, which provides intelligent routing functionality such as broadcast traffic filtering and packet forwarding at wire speeds.
The GigaStar 3000/S chassis is priced at $ 20,000; the 16-port 10M/100M bit/sec Ethernet module costs $ 700 per port; and the Gigabit Ethernet module is priced at $ 2,495. All products will ship in May. |
