3900 Series

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 or complex mesh switching architectures.

Applications

The ONPATH 3900 platform solves connectivity and monitoring challenges for a variety of high-performance applications:

• Cloud Networking
• Network Monitoring
• Test Automation
• Cyber Security
• Federal Networking

ONPATH’s patented 3-stage switching technology provides the industry’s most scalable and reliable switching system of up to 576 non-blocking and over 100,000 meshed 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.

Small

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 switch blade (S-Blade or G-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 scalability of 3900 series stretches from 16 to 576 ports of non-blocking connectivity without wasting ports on inter switch links leading to a flatter and 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 switching fabric in the same platform. The universal S-Blades provide any-to-any connectivity, while the integrated test access ports and broadcast functions allow non-intrusive 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-Blades support all photonic applications ranging from analog to digital with data rates up to 100Gbps and beyond. 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 UCS™ 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.

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

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

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