SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CALIENT Technologies, Inc., the global leader for optical switching technology, today announced the Edge|640™, a new Optical Circuit Switch (OCS) with 640 fiber-optic cross connections – up to twice the capacity of the company’s market leading S320 OCS.
The Edge|640 was developed for data center, telecommunication and test lab applications in response to growing device counts and the need – due to network virtualization – for increased connectivity. Some key applications for the Edge|640 include:
- Telecommunications network edge to network edge
- Wireless network radio-to-baseband units
- Test lab automation shared test resources
- Data center GPU, FPGA and storage compute clusters
The Edge|640 is organized into two switching groups of 320 ports each. Devices connected to a switch port on one of the switch groups can be connected to a device on any of the ports in the other switch group. This connectivity is ideal for “wire-once” network applications or for testing applications where devices under test need access to a range of test systems.
Leveraging CALIENT’s 3D microelectrical machine (MEMS) optical mirror technology, the Edge|640 is transparent to data speed and is protocol agnostic, enabling the switch to support any speed optical connection up to 400Gbps.
The all-optical nature of the switch results in very low latency connections. The switch features built-in optical signal power monitoring on each link and features low power consumption of 90 Watts typical.
“Network virtualization and software-defined networking (SDN) are driving demand for fully automated networks on a massive scale, and the Edge|640 supports this trend through its high port density and very low latency connectivity,” said David Altstaetter, CALIENT Vice President of Product Line Management. “Some of the largest networks in the world trust CALIENT Optical Circuit Switch technology. The proven nature of technology sets the stage for the Edge|640 to be used in very high-density mission-critical applications.”
Availability
The Edge|640 switch is now available. Contact CALIENT sales for more information at sales@calient.net.
About CALIENT Technologies
CALIENT Technologies is the global leader in pure photonic Optical Circuit Switching with systems that enable dynamic optical layer optimization in next generation data centers and software defined networks. CALIENT’s 3D MEMS switches allow data center operators to dramatically improve utilization rates of expensive compute resources which typically account for 75% to 90% of investment. Data center operators and metro service providers also deploy CALIENT switches at the edges of their networks to facilitate multi-layer network optimization for maximum efficiency and flexibility. In this application, the optical circuit switches support network-wide implementation of SD-WAN regardless of the vendor or vintage of the optical transport system. The company designs and manufactures its systems using the state of art MEMS fabrication equipment at its corporate headquarters in Santa Barbara, California.
For more information, visit CALIENT at http://www.calient.net, on Twitter and LinkedIn, or contact us at: marketing@calient.net.
