System integrator and provider of value added services Mistral Solutions, has made available the new GLX4000 series physical layer switch from Curtiss-Wright's family of LinkXchange products.
The product is aimed at providing a cost effective solution for connecting a set of high precision equipments to multiple systems that need to be monitored, tested or validated.
The GLX4000 is a non-blocking, crossbar switch that enables a wide variety of input signals to be connected to any of its 288 output ports and comes equipped with hot-swappable power supplies, fans and port cards.
Mistral claims that the system chassis can accommodate up to six hot-swappable 48-port interface blades configured to support SFP or Firewire (1394B) at speeds up to 4.25 Gb/s and can also be configured to accept direct Firewire connections at rates of upto 1600 Mb/s.
While testing different products for various parameters, manufacturers will find GLX4000 switches extensively useful. They can simply switch them to different measuring equipments connected through the GLX4000 switches.
Potential users of the switches could be electronic component manufacturers, electronic finished goods manufacturers, R&D laboratories with a centralized test and measurement facility connecting to various testing units and systems.
