MultiDyne ACI-2058 - Manual (Page 8)

A54-2058-000 4 A PCON , Inc.
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A PCON ’s ACI-2058 I NTELLA P ATCH physical layer switch enables intelligent, flexible control of
your test lab or enterprise network. The physical layer switch cross-connects copper and
optical cables, providing easy-to-use point-to-point, multicast, and loop connectivity across a
nonblocking, full line-rate switching matrix.
2.1. Features
The ACI-2058 offers the following features:
• Electronic physical layer switch with up to 288 ports and eighteen blades in an 11U
height
• Transparent electronic switching
• Compliant with 1, 2, and 4 GB Fibre Channel, 10 Gigabit Fibre Channel, 10/100/1000
and 10 Gigabit Ethernet, SONET OC-3, OC-12 and OC-48, T1/E1/J1, DS3/E3/STS-1,
and FDDI (blade-specific)
• Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP) transceiver module support
• Signal regeneration (blade-dependent)
• 10 Mbit to 10 Gbit/sec port data rate capability
• 1.26 Tb/sec switching capacity per chassis
• Connections from 1 meter to 10 Km (fiber optic) and up to 100 meters for copper
Ethernet (blade-specific; fiber optic varies by transceiver)
• Two LAN ports and two serial ports for remote software execution
• Windows † , Linux † , and Solaris † support for A PCON C ONTROL X GUI software
• Support for multi-user sessions
• Embedded web management software for drag-and-drop patching, SSL included
• Embedded Telnet command-line interface with SSH client support (uses A PCON C MD X
syntax)
• Embedded ASCII command set interface (backwards-compatible with custom scripts)
• Sixteen user-defined preset patching configurations
Each switch can control up to 288 independent fiber optic or copper ports, with the ability to
connect any port to any other port. All ports are fully bi-directional, offering complete
flexibility in determining where to connect host computers, targets, switch ports, or other
network devices. You can configure fiber optic or copper connections remotely to eliminate
manual manipulation of connections.
The ACI-2058 can be externally connected to any AC input voltage between 100 and 240
volts; three hot-swappable AC power supplies provide redundant power to the unit,
Chapter 2
Introduction
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