Vitesse Semiconductor has launched its new Tiger (VSC7480) switch engine, which offers scalable Layer 3 routing and MPLS switching support.
Tiger is designed for scalable service and backhaul aggregation, cloud computing, video, smart-grid, IPTV, IP routing, optical line termination, and gateway applications.
Vitesse says Tiger combines advanced processing and switching features with packet processing flexibility, IP routing and VPN, service and forwarding table scalability, and carrier-class availability and reliability.
It includes a 100G bi-directional packet processing engine that supports IPv4/v6 L3 routing, MPLS switching, advanced multicasting and tunneling protocols.