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THE GRF 400
25-50 words

The GRF™ 400 is a high-performance Layer-3 IP switch that combines switching with IP Forwarding Media cards to deliver up to 4 Gb/s of bandwidth for demanding Points of Presence and backbone networking environments. Its unsurpassed packet forwarding rate and support for industry-standard media types makes the GRF 400 the most complete solution for managing high-volume traffic.

THE GRF 400
50-75 words

The GRF™ 400 is a high-performance Layer-3 IP switch that combines switching with IP Forwarding Media cards to deliver up to 4 Gb/s of bandwidth for demanding Points of Presence and backbone networking environments. Its unsurpassed packet forwarding rate and support for industry-standard media types makes the GRF 400 the most complete solution for managing high-volume traffic.

In addition, the GRF 400 features:

  • Unsurpassed packet forwarding at rates up to 2.8 million packets per second
  • Support for industry-standard media types such as HSSI, 10/100Base-T, ATM OC-3c, IP/SONET OC-3c, ATM OC-12c, FDDI, CDDI and HIPPI
  • Hardware-assisted full route table lookups (up to 150,000 routes) in less than 2.5 microseconds
  • Full suite of routing protocols-multicast, BGP4 (Route reflections, MEDs, communities, DPAs, flat route dampening, confederations and NextHop-Self)
  • Reliable architecture - hot-swappable, redundant load-balancing power supplies and hot-swappable media cards

 

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