SunTM OC48 Packet Over Sonet Adapter device provides LAN and WAN/MAN networking to Sun FireTM Servers at up to 2.4 Gbps line speed with self-healing failover and restoration, increasing network reliabilty. It supports Spatial Reuse Protocol (SRP) and Point-To-Point Protocol (PPP), lowering cost of ownership. It offers plug and play operations via topology discovery for easy configuration in SRP.

Sun OC48 Packet Over Sonet Adapter device provides high performance and high network resiliency for customers who need more network bandwidth for access to applications servers, database servers Web-based commerce, Voice over IP and video-on-demand.

Sun OC48 Packet Over Sonet ring provides a logical evolution from FDDI ring for intrabuilding backbones and data center interconnection by the cost effective introduction of a major bandwidth upgrade while retaining the benefits of the self-healing ring, as FDDI is no longer available.

It is supported on the Sun FireTM V880 Server and SolarisTM 8 Operating Environment (Solaris OE).

Relevant standards supported include:

• RFC-2892: SRP MAC Layer Protocol
• RFC-1619: PPP over SONET/SDH
• RFC-2615: PPP over SONET/SDH
• RFC-1662: PPP in HDLC - Like Framing
• SRP protocol support including IPv4 and multicast
• IPv4 and IPv6

Sun OC48 Packer Over Sonet Adapter device is fully compliant with the OC48, PPP and SRP standards and is compatible with any other OC48 switches and routers that also comply with the standards.

The Sun OC48 Packet Over Sonet Adapter device supports single-mode fiber up to a distance of 2 km.

Sun OC48 Packet Over Sonet Adapter device supports the PCI 64-bit, 66 MHz, single slot universal full length bus interface.

For a detailed view of the Sun OC48 Packet Over Sonet Adapter device:

http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hw/networking/connectivity/oc48 [...read more...]

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