ProCurve Networking by HP has introduced a set of Layer 3 and 4 LAN switches that feature wirespeed performance and integrated Gigabit Power over Ethernet (PoE). The ProCurve 5400 chassis family and ProCurve 3500 stackable family together scale across a range of 24 to 288 Gigabit ports with identical features, performance and lifetime warranty.
Both are based on the ProVision ASIC, the fourth generation of custom-designed ASICs from ProCurve that deliver intelligence and control to the edge of a network. The ProVision ASIC provides all the performance and functionality needed today and also provisions for future application needs.
The new switches enhance ProCurve’s Adaptive EDGE Architecture by delivering advanced functionality to the network edge to meet the evolving needs of security, mobility and convergence applications.
“Customers no longer have to compromise among functionality, performance or Power over Ethernet because ProCurve is delivering all three at a price customers are used to paying for any one of those capabilities,” says Wenceslao Lada, vice president and general manager for ProCurve Networking, EMEA. “Just as the ProCurve 4000 series in 1998 and the 5300 series in 2001 helped ProCurve become the industry’s number-two networking vendor, we expect the 5400 and 3500 series will fuel our continued industry leadership.”
ProCurve has also announced the ProCurve 4200 switch family, the ProCurve 6200 Switch, and a new media-flexible 10 Gigabit module for the ProCurve 8100 series.
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