Pluris on the way

ATLANTA--Closing in on its target general availability date of the end of this month, Pluris this week demonstrated a 40 Gb/s connection between its core IP routers. The demo involved the use of four Pluris TeraPlex chassis configured as two separate routers.

Pluris also demonstrated its ability to perform transparent control card fail-over. That capability is unique to Pluris, according to Michelle McLean, director of strategic marketing at Pluris.

“If a router goes down, we use a second card to maintain the routes and adjacencies so the other routers aren’t even aware of a failure,” McLean said.

That essentially keeps the router up so the transfer of control happens without an interruption in traffic flow or route tables.

“The second card learns the routes and determines the adjacencies,” McLean said, noting that otherwise a router could be down for a few minutes before a re-route could take place. “Others don’t provide that protection,” she said.

Although Pluris expects to ship the TeraPlex at the end of this month, it will actually not ship with the control card fail over until around September.

Pluris is currently working with Global Crossing on product development and is in trials with Deutsche Telekom.
Liane LaBarba is Senior Editor at Telephony. She can be reached at labarba@airmail.net.