NBase Communications Ltd, Yokmeam, Israel has announced MegaSwitch II, a 12-port switching device incorporating Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and Asynchronous Transfer Mode in one system. The company claims that at less than $1,000 per port, MegaSwitch I I is the first plug’n’play 10/100 Ethernet switch with full duplex and flow control on each port and Asynchronous Transfer Mode uplink corporate backbones. The MegaSwitch II offers eight standard 100Base-TX ports and dual high-speed network interf ace slots capable of providing four more 100Base-TX/FX ports. It features Simple Network Management Protocol, Spanning Tree and integrated RMON support, as well as auto-negotiation, which enables simple automatic connection of disparate devices supp orting different speeds. The switch is due to ship this month, but no pricing was given.
