Lucent Technologies' Cajun P550 Routing Switch Earns Tester's Choice Award From Data Communications Magazine
CONCORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 7, 1999--Lucent Technologies
(NYSE: LU -
news) today announced its Cajun(TM) P550(TM) Routing Switch has earned a
coveted
''Tester's Choice'' award from Data Communications magazine as part of that
publication's
evaluation of Layer 4 switches from five vendors. These tests were recently
conducted at Data
Communications' test lab, and the results appear in the May issue of the
publication.
Layer 4 switches are Quality of Service- (QoS-) capable devices, and represent
a new class of
products that prioritize data traffic using transport-layer criteria, like
transmission control
protocol (TCP) port numbers. Virtually all popular Internet Protocol (IP)
applications, including
electronic mail, the World Wide Web and videoconferencing, use distinct port
numbers.
''The whole advantage to Layer 4 switches is that they provide network
architects a way to pick
out a particular application and give it better service--more bandwidth, lower
latency,
prioritization and so forth,'' reported Data Communications. ''Besides being a
breeze to
configure, the first-place finisher, Lucent's Cajun P550 Routing Switch, put up
the best numbers
in virtually all our performance tests. It was not only the fastest switch, in terms
of raw
forwarding rate, but also did the best job of moving high-priority traffic through
congestion.
Latency and jitter were also impressively low.''
''Data Comms' lab tests are particularly stringent and considered by many to be
the 'Mt. Everest'
of product evaluations,'' said Doug Ruby, Lucent's vice president of product
marketing, LAN
Systems Group. ''Being acknowledged for product excellence in enterprise data
networking by
this esteemed organization is a height to which many of our competitors aspire.''
With its ability to combine Ethernet, Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet modules
in the same
chassis, the 7-slot Cajun P550 Routing Switch is able to easily scale as network
bandwidth
requirements grow. The highly reliable P550 incorporates a top-to-bottom,
fault-tolerant
switching architecture with no single point of failure, and delivers up to 18
million packets per
second of wire-speed IP and IPX routing.
Data Communications is the global technology magazine for network architects.
Its mission is to
cover every aspect of networking for architects, managers, consultants and
integrators who
design, build and maintain enterprise networks. The Data Comm Web site is
located at
www.data.com.
About Lucent
Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., designs, builds and
delivers a wide
range of public and private networks, communications systems and software,
data networking
systems, business telephone systems and microelectronics components. Bell
Labs is the research
and development arm for the company. Additional information about Lucent
Technologies is
available on the company's Web site at www.lucent.com.
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