Allied Telesyn Rapier 48i

Allied Telesyn Rapier 48i ... performance at affordable prices. With wirespeed Layer 2 switching and wirespeed 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 new 'i' chipset adds Quality of Service (QoS) features that are particularly useful for multi-tenant unit, multi business unit, Telco, or Network Service Provider applications.

The Rapier 'i' 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 switches include Layer 3 IP Static Routing, RIP, RIPv2, VRRP and OSPFv2 routing protocols. An optional software upgrade is available to enable a set of additional routing protocols such as IPX, AppleTalk, DVMRP, PIM-DM/SM and RSVP for more advanced networking applications.

All Rapier 'i' series switches come with asymmetric bidirectional 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. These features are ideal to manage different applications like VoIP, Web browsing, Video and email to manage fee-based customers.

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 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 loop back ports are not required.