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Customer Profile
• Medium sized businesses and large enterprises
that want a high-performance, high-speed LAN
switch that offers guaranteed 24/7 network
availability, fail-safe stackability, high-speed
uplinks and redundant power for
mission-critical applications.
• Medium and large single-site or multi-site
enterprises
• Businesses that employ sophisticated network
configurations for data communications
• Buyers who demand quick, non-disruptive
installation looking for a high performance
solution
Defining needs
• Are you looking for a reliable solution that
will support your business needs now and
in the future?
• Is your network critical to your business success?
• Are you looking to future proof your
network investment?
• Do your users require a high performance
solution to increase productivity?
• Does your network support many applications
and users critical to the business success?
Typical Applications
• High-density desktop switching
• Fail-safe, high-performance network
requirements (24/7 operations)
• Maximum flexibility for future growth and
changing businesses
• Provides advanced traffic management and high
levels of resilience making it ideal for rapidly
growing networks in demanding environments
Key Points
• Resilience: The BayStack 450 are designed
with a fail-safe cascade stacking architecture.
Each switch unit has a full copy of the stack’s
configuration so that, if one unit should fail,
application connectivity is not affected.
Each Gigabit uplink on the BayStack 450 is
equipped with two different physical fibre
connectors so that if one should fail, traffic can be
immediately switched to the other. MultiLink
Trunking allows ports to be aggregated for higher
bandwidth and redundancy. If one port fails, the
others take the load seamlessly. Load balancing
and fail-over protection safeguard important
connections to servers and other switches.
• Scalability: Up to 8 BayStack 450s can be stacked
to achieve 224 ports. The 410 and 450 can be
stacked together for greater flexibility.
• Performance: Hardware switching allows the
BayStack 450 to achieve a peak throughput of
3 million packets per second. Ports can be
aggregated to provide a high-bandwidth link of
800Mbps capacity (10/100 ports or 100BASE-FX
ports) or 8 Gbps (Gigabit uplink ports on the 450).
Standards-based priority queuing enables
delay-sensitive traffic such as voice or video, to
be prioritised.
• Simple network set-up: All ports automatically
detect and support the speed and mode of the
connected device.
Baystack 450 Switch 11
BayStack 450 Switch
Overview
BayStack 450 Switches are stackable Ethernet switches featuring fail-safe stackability, flexible choices
for high-speed uplinks, and advanced software features. They are designed to provide high-density,
high-performance switching for enterprise wiring closets, and to provide fail-safe scalability and advanced
traffic management for rapidly growing networks in demanding environments.