Bay Networks' New BayStack 450 Switch Outperforms 3Com SuperStack II Switch 3300 and Intel Express 510T Switch in Recent Tolly Group Evaluation
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 5, 1998--
The BayStack 450 Switch Delivers on Backplane Capacity Promise, Unlike Competitive Offerings
Bay Networks(R), Inc. (NYSE:BAY) today announced that the recently introduced BayStack(tm) 450 Switch outperforms the 3Com SuperStack II Switch 3300 and Intel Express 510T Switch in a recent 10/100 stackable switch performance test conducted by The Tolly Group, a strategic consulting and independent testing organization.
The test focused on backplane capacity and throughput over Fast Ethernet for all three stackable switches.
"The BayStack 450 Switch outperformed the SuperStack II Switch 3300 and the Intel 510T Switch in steady-state throughput tests," said Kevin Tolly, president and CEO of The Tolly Group. "In addition, the tests revealed that the BayStack 450 Switch delivers on its backplane capacity promise."
Preliminary documentation of test results from The Tolly Group test (available in the 'press room' at tolly.com) demonstrated that the BayStack 450 Switch: -0- *T
-- Delivered highest Gbit/s data throughput performance at 2.4
Gbit/s compared to 3Com's 1.4 Gbit/s, and Intel's 0.4 Gbit/s and;
-- Provided the best packet per second (pps) throughput at 3.0 mpps, compared to 3Com's 1.3 mpps and Intel's 0.6 mpps. *T -0- The Tolly Group benchmarked the actual backplane capacity for all three stackable switches in the single switch configuration. The BayStack 450 Switch performed at 2.4 Gbit/s on 24 full-duplex Fast Ethernet ports using 1,518 byte frame size traffic. The test results for the BayStack 450 Switch were limited only by number of ports and not backplane capacity. In contrast, 3Com advertised 2.1 Gbit/s backplane speed but delivered only 1.4 Gbit/s of actual capacity, both with and without flow control. This is an estimated 56 percent of advertised capacity. Similarly, Intel advertises 2.1 Gbit/s but provided only 0.4 Gbit/s, or 16 percent of advertised capacity.
Further, The Tolly Group tested each device on 24 full-duplex Fast Ethernet ports using 64 byte packets in order to measure aggregate maximum packets per second. Again, the BayStack 450 Switch outperformed the 3Com and Intel switches by a wide margin with 3.0 mpps. The Intel 510T Switch passed 0.6 mpps of aggregate frames per second and performed at 16.7 percent of theoretical maximum. The 3Com SuperStack II 3300 Switch, while somewhat better, delivered 1.3 mpps, a 36 percent of theoretical maximum. The complete results will be available in test summary, document No. 8286 on August 31, 1998 on The Tolly Group web site.
"The Tolly Group tests illustrate that the BayStack 450 Switch is the best-in-class performance switch in its category, with industry-leading backplane capacity," said Lloyd Carney, executive vice president and general manager of Bay Networks' Business Products Group. "With the introduction of the BayStack 450 Switch, Bay Networks is now offering the industry's most affordable, enterprise-class Ethernet switching solution. The combination of BayStack 450 Switches in the wiring closet and Accelar(tm) Routing Switches in the backbone, creates the most compelling price/performance solution on the market today."
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