Lucent, 3Com Introduce New Switches
InformationWeek - 10/14/98; 12:00 a.m. ET
Two major networking companies unveiled switches for LANs, products
that add yet more capacity to meet the demands of bandwidth-hungry
applications.
Murray Hill, N.J.-based Lucent (company profile), as expected, started
selling its Cajun Campus family of switches, running the gamut from
stackabledesktop switches to high-end, chassis-based products that act
as the LAN backbone. The devices range in capacity from 4 gigabits per
second to 80 Gbps, and in price from $1,695 to $23,000.
The Cajun Campus line consists of rebranded products from three
acquisitions -- of LANNet,Prominet, and Agile Networks. The products
represent Lucent's first major push into the market for LAN data-
networking devices.
Meanwhile, Santa Clara, Calif.-based 3Com (company profile) introduced
the packet-switching version of its next-generation LANswitch, the
CoreBuilder 9000. This switch is intended to be used as the core of a
LAN,supporting connections to the wiring closet and edge-networking
devices.
The CoreBuilder 9000 has backplane capacity of 560 Gbps, and can
support 126 Gigabit Ethernet ports and 504 Fast Ethernet ports.
Pricing for a base package, available now, starts at $35,800.
The ATM version of the CoreBuilder 900 started shipping last month.
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