3900 Series

ONPATH Key Advantages

The ONPATH 3900 series is a family of highly flexible, scalable and dense physical layer switching systems, designed to accommodate a variety of high-performance connectivity and monitoring applications. Designed to be highly scalable and future proof, the platform helps network managers conserve time, increase utilization, and save money compared to manual patching, static TAPs, SPAN ports, or complex mesh switching architectures.

ONPATH’s patented 3-stage switching technology provides the industry’s most scalable and reliable switching system of up to 576 non-blocking ports. The HorizON management and monitoring software offers the highest security and integrated diagnostics to simplify connectivity management with point-and-click provisioning and full remote control of the ONPATH 3900 system.

Scalable

The 3900 series of switches is available in 1, 3, and 12 slot compact form factors and is the highest density connectivity and monitoring solution available offering savings in rack space, power, and cooling. Each ONPATH Layer 1 switch blade (S-Blade) supports an industry leading 48 ports of connectivity and/or monitoring per rack unit, while the optical switch blade (O-Blade) supports 96 fully non-blocking ports in 2 rack units. The Layers 2-4 packet switching blade (P-Blade) supports up to 48 ports of 1/10Gbps Ethernet and 4 ports of 40Gbps Ethernet for packet switching, filtering, and aggregation.The scalability of the 3900 series stretches from 16 to 576 ports of non-blocking connectivity without wasting ports on inter switch links. This results in a flatter, simpler network. Mesh networking of multiple 3900 and 2900 systems provides scalability of over 100,000 ports.

Flexible

The ONPATH 3900 family supports a hybrid electrical and all-optical non-blocking switching fabric and a hybrid Layer 1 and Layers 2-4 packet switching fabric in the same platform. The universal S-Blade provides any-to-any connectivity, while the
integrated test access ports and multicast functions allow nonintrusive, low-latency monitoring and one-to-many connectivity. Ports within the same blade can support Ethernet as well as Fibre Channel applications across a wide range of data rates from 1Gbps to 10Gbps. The all-optical O-Blade supports all photonic applications ranging from analog to digital with data rates up to 100Gbps and beyond. The packet switching P-Blade provides advanced traffic flow filtering, aggregation, multicast, port level statistics, and threshold alarming, adding intelligence and optimization to your connectivity and monitoring applications. ONPATH 3903 and 3912 systems are designed with a fully redundant architecture, including hot-swappable, field replaceable parts for the industry’s highest availability.

Future Proof

The modular architecture of the 3900 enables a “pay as you grow” model for the ultimate in flexibility and scalability. Each of the systems is designed to support the full capacity needed per application or site. All blades are interchangeable across any switch in the family providing investment protection as needs scale with increased connectivity and monitoring. In addition, as network speeds increase from low speeds to high speeds, the same infrastructure scales up to all current and future Ethernet and Fibre Channel speeds via simple software settings, without additional hardware costs.

3900 Interfaces Supported:

• Moves, adds, or changes
• Planning or troubleshooting
• Record keeping

• Data center equipment
• Test or monitoring tools
• Personnel productivity

• Capital expense
• Operating expense
• Power, space, and cooling