Mountain View, California-headquartered Allied Telesyn International has unveiled a hybrid Asynchronous Transfer Mode-Ethernet workgroup switch – the CentreCom 4016. It supports 16 10Base-T Ethernet ports, each of which can provide a dedicated 10Mbps connection to desktops or servers and an Asynchronous Mode port that operates at 155Mbps full duplex. It is also said to feature a modular Asynchronous Mode User-to-Network Interface that is UNI 3.0-compliant and supports Synchronous Optical Network OC-3c and Synchronous Digital Hierarchy STM-1 multimode fibre connections. On the management side, the switch supports 64 virtual local area networks and over 2,000 Ethernet Media Access Controls. Moreover, via its connection management software, more than 1,000 switched virtual circuits can be created, the firm added. In addition, Telnet and Simple Network Management Protocol are incorporated, enabling users to manage networks remotely from a terminal or workstation running HP OpenView, SunNet Manager or NetView. The switch is out now; no pricing details yet. Meantime the name of the company’s AT-3724TR 24-port Ethernet switch was inadvertently garbled as AT-424TR in CI No 2,634.
