Allied Telesyn Summit 7i

Allied Telesyn Summit 7i ... 100/1000BASE-T or 1000BASE-SX ports plus four GBIC-based 1000BASE-X ports, Summit7i is the industry's first stackable 32-port Gigabit Ethernet switch in a compact '4U' package. It also comes with optional redundant power supplies for increased fault tolerance.

In server farms and data centers, the Summit7i maximizes server availability and performance by combining server load-balancing with wire-speed switching. Autosensing 100/1000BASE-T ports extend the simplicity of Ethernet's scalable speed from Fast Ethernet to Gigabit Ethernet. The low 7-inch height of the Summit7i also makes it ideal in server farms and data centers where rack space is limited. The high port-density of the Summit7i makes it easy and cost-effective to scale backbone bandwidth and aggregate multiple switches. As a "mid-tier" switching solution, Summit7i can aggregate multiple Summit24 and Summit48 Enterprise Desktop Switches, while providing high-speed gigabit links to BlackDiamond chassis switches in the core.

Utilizing link aggregation, Summit7i can trunk multiple Gigabit Ethernet connections into one high-bandwidth pipe. Capable of scaling enterprise backbone bandwidth well into the future, the Summit7i can aggregate up to eight Gigabit Ethernet links into one logical link. Pre-installed on every Extreme Networks switch, the ExtremeWare software suite combines industry standard protocols to ensure interoperability with legacy switches and routers, plus Policy-Based Quality of Service (QoS) for bandwidth management and traffic prioritization in today's networks.