Allied Telesyn Rapier 16fi/SC

Allied Telesyn Rapier 16fi/SC ... affordable prices. With wire-speed Layer 2 switching and wire-speed Layer 3 IP routing on all ports, these switches are designed for high-performance desktop connectivity, workgroup and server farm aggregation or backbone applications. The 'i' chipset adds Quality of Service (QoS) features that are particularly useful for multi-tenant unit, multi business unit, Telco, or Network Service Provides applications. The Rapier 'i' series switches are some of the most powerful switches on the market. All Rapier 'i' Layer 3 switches include a suite of advanced switching features such as IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Tagging, IGMPv2, and 802.1p traffic prioritization of packets at Layer 3 and Layer 4.

All Rapier 'i' series switches come with asymmetric bi-directional bandwidth limiting at no additional cost. This is an ideal feature for customers who need to allocate the amount of bandwidth on a per port basis. With bandwidth limiting, Network Service Providers can define throughput levels for each customer and sell their various service levels at tiered prices. The Rapier 'i' bandwidth limiting feature provides the smallest granulation available in Layer 3 products. Service Providers can define ingress limits down to 64Kbps segments and to define egress limits down to 1Mbps segments. The segment definitions can be asymmetric and each port can be set to different values. An additional benefit is that loopback ports are not required.