Department of Defense to Use NX5010 Platform from Network Equipment Technologies

By Niladri Sekhar Nath

TMCnet Contributing Editor

 

Telecommunications equipment maker Network Equipment Technologies (News - Alert) Inc. has got a new customer for its NX5010 platform - an agency in the US Department of Defense (DoD).

The NX5010 is a next generation, high-speed multi-service aggregation and switching platform. This initial order for 10 units will be used to provide continuous transport of time-sensitive secure applications at line-rate OC-192 speeds between disparate network locations.

“The early customer interest and traction we are achieving with this product is encouraging. This new order, in addition to the one we recently received from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) following their trials of the platform, indicates the promise of this new product for NET as customers begin to realize the potential of this powerful solution for mission-critical communications,” said John Sandschulte, vice president of engineering and GM of the Broadband Technology Group, in a press release. “The high-speed nature and small form factor of the NX5010 has made it an ideal solution for government agencies in need of sending large amounts of data over secure networks.”



NX5010 has been jointly developed by NET and Bay Microsystems, a leader in high performance packet processing solutions. The NX5010 is compact and scalable, with the ability to forward data, Infiniband, cell, or packet, at 10 gigabits per second over a wide area connection in a very small a foot print (2RU).

Network Equipment Technologies (NET) provides multi-service network exchange solutions that helping flexible, cost-effective network evolution. It has been delivering network exchange solutions to enterprise and government customers for more than 20 years.

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Niladri Sekhar Nath is a contributing writer for TMCnet covering telecommunications, service providers and networking. To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.