MODEL 5580 TOKEN RING ROUTER
Manufacturer: Nortel Networks
Product Type: CE
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Product Description
Bay Networks System 5000 router modules provide scalable integrated routing to ease network design, minimize maintenance costs, and ensure future growth. The router modules ensure adequate performance of applications in remote offices and medium sized data centers as well as terminating WAN traffic. The router modules' support of Bay Networks Switched Internetwork Services (BaySIS) ensures multivendor interoperability. BaySIS, an open architecture built on standards, delivers the services to build and maintain an enterprise-wide internetwork while providing features to evolve today's internetworks into the future of switched internetworking.Based on Bay Networks Access Stack Node Router (ASN), each router module features a Motorola 68040 processor and is capable of forwarding rates of 50,000 packets per second (pps) with 200,000 pps forwarding rates in a 4-module configuration. Supporting Bay Networks Routing Services, the router modules maximize connectivity and enhance interoperability by supporting all major network and bridging protocols, wide area services, and IBM standards.
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