The Leatherhead, Surrey-based UK arm of Westborough, Massachusetts-based Proteon International Inc has a high-end addition to its CNX family of bridge-router products for mixed local network and IBM Corp SNA environments. The CNX 600 is based on a second-generation RISC-based multiprocessor architecture, and is claimed to offer 100,000 packets per second performance. The product uses the company’s Transportable Software Architecture to support protocols including TCP/IP, Frame Relay, X25, SMDS and T1/E1. Open Shortest Path First and Multicast OSPF routing protocols are also supported. The CNX 600 incorporates Proteon’s Internetworking Traffic Management technology, which is claimed to guarantee secured bandwidth availability for critical SNA traffic in a mixed IBM and non-IBM network; the software is also claimed to enable users to control wide area network bandwidth allocation from a central site through protocol prioritisation and bandwidth reservation systems. Quad wide area network and local network boards support up to 20 Ethernet and Token Ring networks, as well as five FDDI networks. The product is also claimed to have enhanced diagnostic capabilities to manage enterprise-wide networks as well as an Integrated Boot Device, which uses Flash memory, a floppy drive for loading software upgrades and for data collection, and SNMP time-stamped event logging with a real time clock. Finally, an internal modem is included for remote diagnosis. Available now, the CNX 600 has a base price of UKP12,900, with an average configuration priced at UKP17,200.
