CPC440X
CompactPCI Packet Switching Backplane compliant
10/100/1000 Switching Platform

Performance Technologies' award winning CPC4400s are fast, flexible and feature-rich 10/100/1000 Ethernet switching platforms. Part of the IPnexus™ product family, they offer 24 10/100 auto negotiating Ethernet ports plus two Gigabit ports in a rugged, hot-swap CompactPCI® 6U form factor. The result is a powerful switching solution for OEMs & integrators looking to quickly launch high availability, carrier-grade IP products.

The CPC4400s are the first CompactPCI switches compliant with the CompactPCI Packet Switching Backplane standard (PICMG® 2.16), which offers the option of sending all Ethernet signals through the mid-plane - enabling designers to vastly increase the inter-board communication capabilities of subsystems located in a CompactPCI chassis. By moving system traffic from the shared bus architecture of CompactPCI to a fault tolerant, yet industry standard, switched backplane approach, overall system throughput can be doubled while retaining the inherent robustness, reliability and hot-swap capabilities of CompactPCI.

The CPC4400s come from the leader in Fault Tolerant Ethernet Switching. It is the first 10/100/1000 Ethernet switch in the cPCI form factor to offer sophisticated high availability switching features including 802.3ad Link Aggregation, VRRP, 802.1q VLANs and 802.1p CoS. It can be configured as a fully redundant, non-blocking switching fabric to help ensure that no single point of failure can halt network traffic.

The CPC4400s have been specifically designed to make embedded system integration tasks easier. Each comes with a potent scripting language , called Lua, that can be used to easily change switch configuration/behavior, attached client setups, fail-over rules, etc., based on SNMP traps, network events or system configuration changes.

Features/Benefits

The CPC4400s maximize network performance and flexibility by supporting multiple switching architectures. They can be used as stand-alone switching solutions, coupled to other switches for greater port capacity, or used in a fully redundant, fault tolerant fashion. When attached to two CPC4400s, devices with dual Ethernet ports can be connected to one or both switches. If a link, PHY or switching node fails, data can be re-routed to an alternate path, maintaining network connections.

Designed with the utmost regard for reliability, each CPC4400 maximizes network uptime by continuously checking its health. If a problem is detected, the switch will de-assert all links, signaling the attached devices to use another route. The replacement unit can obtain all of its operational and configuration information from the other CPC4400 or an external manager, making change-out of failed modules a simple matter of sliding one blade out and replacing it with a new one. The new unit “clones” its setup from the configuration stored on the survivor. The CPC4400s have no active components on their rear panel I/O cards, ensuring failed units can easily be replaced without disturbing cables or other blades in the chassis.

CPC4400s are ideal for demanding network applications. Each blade "learns" and caches up to 8k MAC addresses in its filtering database and sustains full wire speed data rates on all ports with its 9 Gbps switching fabric, eliminating congestion in even the busiest environments.

With the CPC4400s, networks can be configured into 63 VLANs, dramatically increasing total available network bandwidth. If more ports are required, units can be easily stacked or cascaded using the full-duplex Gigabit Ethernet ports.

The CPC4400s protect investments for the long term with easy FTP/TFTP updates to platform flash memory. System software is available through downloads from our Web site (www.pt.com). Upgrades can be performed in-band or via the out-of-band management ports, greatly simplifying or eliminating the need for dedicated on-site network administration.

The CPC4400s continue Performance Technologies’ long tradition of offering high-availability, fault tolerant solutions for the telecom and data communications industries.

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