Allied Telesis, a global leader in connectivity solutions and intelligent networking tools, introduced its x530-28GSX full fiber switch, bringing flexibility and network optimization to the company’s x530 Series of multi-Gigabit switches.

Months in development, the x530-28GSX switch is a 24-port 100/1000X SFP stackable switch with 4 SFP+ ports and 2 fixed power supplies. It can aggregate a 24x1 Gigabit fiber link to a 4x10 Gigabit fiber link and up to 8 units can be stacked using Virtual Chassis Stacking (VCStack™) to build a 192 Gigabit fiber aggregator. The switch also supports copper connectivity via SFP/SFP+ ports allowing the maximum flexibility of both copper and fiber as required.

«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,» said Richard Lardner, Senior MarCom Director at Allied Telesis. «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.»