Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: Agere Systems | Subject: ET4K and Octal TruePHY 1081
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 13 October 2005
Ethernet chips enable tigerish gigabit
switches
SMC Networks has begun shipping the first in a new line of gigabit workgroup switches, the TigerSwitch 1000, powered by Agere Systems' industry-leading Ethernet chips.
SMC Networks has begun shipping the first in a new line of gigabit workgroup switches, the TigerSwitch 1000 (SMC8748L2), powered by Agere Systems' industry-leading Ethernet chips Designed to turn today's common unmanaged data networks into intelligent, multimedia-rich converged Internet Protocol (IP) infrastructures with huge performance advances and built-in economic benefits, the new Layer 2, fully-managed 48-port gigabit Ethernet switch with two 10Gbit/s uplinks is available now at an MSRP of $1999.99
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Mar 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new TigerSwitch 1000 (SMC8748L2) stands alone as the only switching solution on the market that provides such a high port density with an efficient single chip solution, and it is the first in SM