D-Link, the end-to-end networking solutions provider for consumer and business today announced the introduction of D-Link DES-8500 series of chassis based switches. Based on intelligent and high-performance multi-layered LAN devices design, D-Link DES-8500 series of chassis based switches are ideal for Enterprise and Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN).
D-Link DES-8500 series is a new-generation large-capacity and high performance core routing switch series. Featuring a flexible modular architecture and industry standard compliance, these switches provide scalable expansion and a high level of investment protection for businesses and telecom carriers to deploy Gigabit and 10-Gigabit packet switching and routing for office networking and Ethernet-based Internet services.
Elaborating on the unique features Mr. Jayesh Kotak, VP-Product Marketing at D-Link (India) Ltd. said, “D-Link DES-8500 series of chassis based switch provides market-leading services, performance, port densities and is available with investment protection for both enterprise and service provider markets. Further its comprehensive network security feature takes care of all kinds of sophisticated attacks from both internal and external elements to assure complete Protection of investment for the customer”
DES-8500 series is ideal for deployment in environments where minimal downtime of network applications, superior performance, security and control is required. This makes it a perfect choice for Enterprise networks and Service Provider networks.
Mr. Raj Jadhav, VP- Solution Consulting, Tech Support & IT, added “DES-8500 series is equipped with high- speed switch fabrics, redundant backup/load sharing capability and advanced software function including complete IPv6 support. Hence DES-8500 series provides the performance, high availability and future-proof architecture suitable for applications of not just today but well into the future”.
DES-8500 series is available in three models:- •DES-8503 3-slot chassis with 2 open slots •DES-8506 6-slot chassis with 4 open slots •DES-8510 10-slot chassis with 8 open slots
Key features of the DES-8500 series:-
Support IPv6 , NAT, 802.1X services
Dual Switch Fabric
Superior performance with maximum switching capacity upto 1536Gbps
Bottleneck-free distributed pocket switching
Up to Two Redundant Backup Power Supplies
Hot-Swappable Control module and Line Cards
VRRP Support
Granular Bandwidth Control Down to 64Kbits for Ingress and Egress traffic
Integrated Routing (IBGPv4, MPBGP, OSPFv2/3, RIPv1/2/ng)
MPLS VPN
Multicast (PIM-SM, DVMRPv2/3, IGMPv1/2)
Versatile and Secured Management