[January 12, 2001]

Enterasys Networks Intros Backbone Routing Platform

Enterasys Networks announced the new X-Pedition ER16 backbone routing platform. Designed to meet the increase in demand on the enterprise core backbone, the X-Pedition ER16 provides outstanding capacity, performance and a complete set of application services, enabling corporate networks and e-businesses to optimize and control their networks to meet critical business goals.

The ER16 delivers four times the Gigabit routing capacity of Enterasys' current routing offerings, and provides a comprehensive set of advanced application services, including traffic prioritization, traffic shaping, multilayer security, application load balancing, application content verification and high availability. These advanced services provide critical control of business-centric applications such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), SAP, database, e-commerce, multimedia, and converged voice, video and data.

In addition, Enterasys Networks has rebranded its entire routing line as X-Pedition, including the SmartSwitch Router (SSR) 8600, SSR 8000, SSR 2100 and SSR 2000. These products will now be branded as X-Pedition 8600, X-Pedition 8000, X-Pedition 2100 and X-Pedition 2000. For ease of use, the ER16 utilizes the same firmware set as all other X-Pedition routers, providing consistency in feature sets across the entire product line.

"The ER16 is an important new addition to our solution and product offerings, giving us a high-capacity core backbone router designed specifically for the enterprise customer," said Henry Fiallo, president of Enterasys Networks. "This marks an exciting milestone in Enterasys' product development, and complements our current award-winning switching, VPN, security and management products."

With 16 slots, up to 128 Gbps of non-blocking switch fabric, support for up to 128 Gigabit Ethernet ports or up to 460 10/100 ports, and more than 4 million Layer 4 application traffic flows, the ER 16 provides the capacity needed for enterprise LAN, WAN or campus backbone infrastructures. Additionally, the ER 16 is designed to scale to deliver future, high-capacity technologies such as 10 Gigabit Ethernet and Packet over SONET.

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