The Allied Telesis SwitchBlade® x908 industry leading modular switch incorporates eight highspeed 60Gbps expansion bays, delivering a new generation of high performance. The SwitchBlade x908 provides scalable and versatile switching solutions for today’s Enterprise networks. The highly configurable SwitchBlade x908 3RU modular switch combines an advanced IPv4 L3 feature set and comprehensive IPv6 routing features, with wire-speed IPv6 hardware capability, future proofing the network. Featuring dual hot-swap PSUs, an advanced QoS feature set,multicasting support, and LAN resiliency support, the SwitchBlade x908 also provides Service Provider capabilities such as a large L3 route table, and EPSR support. Stacking between two units is supported via fixed stacking connectors on the rear of the chassis, providing 160Gbps of stacking bandwidth. Stacking of more than two units is via expansion modules (XEMs) on the front panel. The SwitchBlade x908 incorporates the AlliedWare Plus™ Operating System, using an industry standard Command Line Interface (CLI), facilitating effortless manageability.