Allied Telesis Adds Full Fiber Switch to x530 Series

Allied Telesis recently launched its x530-28GSX full fiber switch to the company’s x530 Series of multi-Gigabit switches. The x530-28GSX is a 24-port 100/1000X SFP stackable switch with 4 SFP+ ports and 2 fixed power supplies. The device can aggregate a 24x1 Gigabit fiber link to a 4x10 Gigabit fiber link and a maximum of 8 units can be stacked using Virtual Chassis Stacking (VCStack) to make a 192 Gigabit fiber aggregator. The switch is also flexible in its ability to support not only fiber, but copper connectivity via SFP/SFP+ ports.

Todd Trenasty, Vice President Sales America at Allied Telesis stated, “Businesses and organizations need to meet the rapidly changing demand put on networks by applications such as artificial intelligence, 5G backhaul and edge computing. The x530-28GSX enables the addition of bandwidth using either copper or fiber at either 1 or 10Gb/s, and because of its high resiliency, this capacity increase works very well for numerous large site markets such as education campuses, FTTx deployments, utilities, and city-wide metro networks.”

He went on to say, “Furthermore, with the flexibility to provide over 200 fiber ports within a small, stacked footprint, they can be used in dense fiber only networks such as defence and CNI (Critical National Infrastructure), coupling this with our Active Fiber Monitoring technology helps to reduce the chances of a cyber-attack on the attached passive infrastructure.”

Features of the x530 Series include increased network capacity, network automation, device and network management, resiliency, reliability, and security. The x530 Series is also environmentally friendly and can be used in Smart Buildings.