Carrier class switch for media backbone networks


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Nimbra 680 Nimbra 680 is a break-through Next Generation switch from Net Insight. It implements 80 Gbps fully non-blocking connectivity between all ports combined with a state-of-the-art switching architecture to provide the industry’s lowest cost-per-bit switching.

Nimbra 680 is especially aimed at meeting the rigorous 100% QoS and availability demands of the professional media industry and Telco and CATV triple-play networks. Nimbra 680 typically forms the high-capacity backbone layer of a Nimbra network, aggregating and switching traffic from Nimbra 300 series or Nimbra One access nodes.

Key product features:

  • High switching capacity 40 or 80 Gbps non-blocking
  • Unsurpassed switching granularity down to 512 kbps
  • Highest network utilization 95+%
  • Signaled end-to-end provisioning and restoration
  • Guaranteed 100% QoS independent of network load
  • Unique Multicast support with full QoS for any level of forking
  • Carrier class design with redundant switch planes, control modules, control paths, and power supplies
  • High capacity trunk interfaces, up to 8 x 10 Gbps or 32 x 2.5 Gbps per subrack
  • Large selection of pluggable optical interfaces including CWDM and DWDM
Nimbra 680 is fully compatible with the Nimbra One/Nimbra 300 series of multiservice edge and access switches both from transport and management point of view, and provides an operator with a set of network switching options to meet its unique needs. Existing Nimbra platform users can take advantage of Nimbra 680 to economically scale their networks. All features including signaled end-to-end provisioning and restoration are supported in a mixed network with different Nimbra products.

The compact 6RU chassis has 12 slots for plug-in modules. Two of these are allocated for redundant switch modules and two for redundant control modules. This leaves 8 slots for traffic interface modules. Two or more chassis can be interconnected to provide further interface capacity.

Nimbra 680 provides several network management options. Element management is supported through a comprehensive web GUI as well as CLI. A standard SNMP interface is available for connection to the Nimbra Vision NMS or 3rd party management systems.

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