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Cabletron Receives Coveted Industry
Benchmark Certification From the Silicon
Valley Networking Lab
SmartSwitch Router 8600 Performs Flawlessly - Designed to Meet the Current
Demands of Large Enterprise Networks
ROCHESTER, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 23, 1998-- Cabletron Systems (NYSE:CS - news) today announced
that the SmartSwitch Router (SSR) 8600 was independently tested and has received one of the industry's most
respected certifications -- ''Benchmarked'' from The Silicon Valley Networking Lab (SVNL).
Populated with a mixture of 10/100 and Gigabit Ethernet ports, was tested to measure the forwarding rate, latency,
congestion and Head-Of-Line (HOL) blocking. Offering one of the industry's largest backplane capacities of 32 Gbps,
the SSR 8600 turned in a perfect forwarding rate score at 100% for both Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching. This is a
substantial finding since it is much more difficult to build a wire-speed Layer 3 router, than a wire-speed Layer 2
switch.
''The SSR 8600 excelled in the Gigabit backbone test reviews we recently completed,'' said Steve Bell, President and
CEO of The Silicon Valley Networking Lab. ''This product innovates in several ways; particularly impressive is the
wire speed Gigabit performance, the implementation of Layer 3 switching, and the ability to route using RIP, RIP2,
OSPF and even BGP protocols.''
Standing atop the industry performing at wire speed at all layers, the SSR 8600 can route back-to-back packets all at
wire speed without any performance degradation to the network. The SSR 8600 also provides protection against packet
loss without creating excessive buffer delays and has found to be free of any packet loss when tested for head-of-line
blocking.
''The SVNL report provides the critical information IS professionals need to evaluate when making a purchasing
decision,'' said Kevin Brown, Marketing Director at Cabletron. ''Cabletron owns a commanding 33% marketshare for
the chassis-based Layer 3 systems according to recent Dell'Oro reports. This is just more proof that the SSR is the ideal
solution for enterprise backbones.
The SSR 8600 is one of a few products that contains a centralized, non-blocking, point-to-multi-point crossbar switch
as its switching fabric. Even though shared-memory architectures can be adapted for Gigabit routing switches, the
crossbar architecture, such as the one on the SSR 8600, is more naturally suited to provide the scalability required for
such large switches.
About SVNL
The Silicon Valley Networking Lab (SVNL) is a leading networking industry third-party test lab, providing OEMs with
performance, interoperability, and functional testing services including reports, collateral and certification programs.
Services include critical product evaluations, detailed performance profiles, custom equipment testing and heterogeneous
interoperability testing. For more information visit the World Wide Web at svnl.com. |
