Hitachi Cable develops world's first 40 Gigabit port terabit box switch

TOKYO, JAPAN: Hitachi Cable has announced the development of the terabit box switch Apresia 15000-64XL-PSR, and Apresia 15000-32XL-PSR of its APRESIA series of Ethernet switches.

Both the terabit box switch Apresia 15000-64XL-PSR and Apresia 15000-32XL-PSR will be the world's first 40 gigabit port equipment. Sales of these new switches will start at the end of February 2011.

Hitachi Cable developed its original brand of Ethernet switches APRESIA series in 2003, and has expanded its sales to carrier wide-area Ethernet services and enterprise LAN.

APRESIA has been highly regarded for its high reliability and its flexible feature development that consistently meet customers' demands. The enterprise Apresia 13000 series developed under the new BoxCore concept for improving network efficiency by using box switches as core switches has also received high customer satisfaction.

In recent years, for a more efficient core business system operation, there are increasing businesses that construct intra-firm data centers or leverage data centers as a backbone of cloud computing, which is used to provide software and information services via a network.

For this reason, the demands for wider broadband networks are increasing at backbone or server access points where traffic gets congested. To meet the demand for such high capacity, IEEE 802 Committee has promoted the standardization of the next generation 40G/100G technology. In addition, as the efficiency of IT investment becomes more important, the need for more cost-effective network equipment also rises.

In the context of such trends, Hitachi Cable developed the world's first 40 gigabit box switches, Apresia 15000-64XL-PSR and Apresia 15000-32XL-PSR.