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Indura™ Switch Delivers Reliability Through Innovative Heat Dissipation in Harsh Environments

Transition Networks recently announced the launch of its new industrial product platform, the Indura™. The Indura™ IND-3280 series of switches are among the first dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 Layer 2 industrial Ethernet switches compliant with international substation IEC 61850-3 and IEE 1613 Class 2 requirements. The Indura IND-3280™ is the first electrical substation switch, designed and engineered exclusively by Transition Networks for Smart Grid and electrical substation infrastructures and uses an innovative fanless passive cooling design to achieve exceptional thermal performance.

“Our engineering team created an exciting product design for the Indura™ platform. The Indura™ IND-3280 will be the first in a series of industrial switches designed to remain reliable in the harshest environments due to its innovative heat dissipation technology, rugged industrial design, and lifetime warranty,” stated Kevin Faulds, Director of Product Management at Transition Networks.

Click on the links below or contact your Transition Networks representative to learn more about this innovative new release.

Official Press Release

Indura™ Product Page

An option for when your available fiber infrastucture is exhausted and pulling in more fiber is no longer an economical or feasible solution.

Managers of today’s networks are being forced to address bandwidth constraints and bottlenecks more and more often. To meet these demands, most companies are relying on deploying fiber optics within their network. But what choice do you have if pulling in additional fiber cabling is not an option?

One option that has grown in popularity, is deploying Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM) technologies in order to increase available capacity on the existing fiber infrastructure. WDM is a technology which multiplexes multiple optical signals onto a single fiber by using different wavelengths, or colors of light. By utilizing WDM , network managers can realize a multiplication effect in their available fiber plant’s capacity.

The WDM Brochure highlights the three different WDM options that are  currently being deployed (BWDM, CWDM, and DWDM), provides a cost comparison between the three options, and provides an ordering guide for Transition’s CWDM offering.

Download WDM Technology Brochure

Ease of management, product reliability and a competitive price point  help secure TN as Videotron’s Metro-Ethernet access vendor of choice.

Videotron is one of the largest MSO/Service Providers in North America with a network spanning more than 56,000 kilometers and  nearly 2 million subscribers in Quebec and east of Ontario. Transition Networks was awarded the Metro-Ethernet access vendor of choice by Videotron and is now deployed in two of the most predominant access services offered today: Mobile Backhaul and Ethernet Business Services.

When asked why Transition was the vendor of choice for Videotron, Philippe Perron, Director of IP Networks Engineering Business Research and Development had this to say:

“There were three key criteria that seperated Transition Networks from the other competitors evaluated. We required a Metro-Ethernet delivery solution that was simple to provision and install, was attractively priced, and offered management capabilities that were comprehensive and provided a complete end-to-end solution. Transition Networks was #1 in each of these three areas.”

Videotron Case Study

SFBRM NID Datasheet

SBFFG NID Datasheet

New 24-port All Fiber Switch Supports 100/1000 Dual Speed SFPs and IPV6

Transition Networks Inc., the switching and conversion technology expert, today announced the release of a 24-port managed all fiber switch.  The SM24DPA offers Network Managers the ability to easily integrate fiber optics into their networks via (24) dual speed Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFPs) slots. A wide array of SFP optical transceivers are also available, offering a broad range of deployment options over multimode and/or single-mode fiber.

The SM24DPA is suitable for both Metro Ethernet and office applications and offers IT managers a better means to manage this device through useful functions such as Quality of Service (QoS), Spanning Tree, and Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP). The SM24DPA all fiber switch also supports enhanced network security features including: SSH, SSL, and TACACS+ which guarantee users protected and secure connections to the network.

Download SM24DPA Press Release

SM24DPA Data Sheet