The Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing - Subsystems SMS-682 SwitchBox II module provides twenty Gigabit Ethernet ports enclosed in a single slot rugged chassis. Embedded is the VME-682 FireBlade which provides wirespeed dual IPv4/v6, Layer 2, Layer 3, QoS, NAT, Security as well as many other switching/routing features.
Combined with an improved box design and lower cost connectors, the SMS-682 SwitchBox II enables the vision of Net-Centric operations ideally suited for building rugged Intra-Platform Networks (IPNs) for air, land, and sea vehicles. The SMS-682 SwitchBox II enables fast, reliable, and deterministic forwarding (switching and routing) of control and data packets with up to 20 wire-speed 10/100/1000-Mbps interfaces that can be used to connect multiple chassis, cards, or even processors with in platform networks. Using star, dual star, mesh and hybrid network topologies, the SMS-682 SwitchBox II provides a flexible cost effective solution that can be used to architect reliable backbone communications infrastructure for current and future networked platforms.
