GateD Switching

GateD® NGS | GateD® UNS

GateD® NGS

GateD® Next Generation Switch (NGS) software provides a comprehensive Ethernet control plane for enterprise class fixed-port, stackable, and chassis based switches.

GateD NGS is the most feature complete layer 2 (L2) control plane offering available, providing substantial benefits for creating of best-in-class managed enterprise switches.

Significant Features Include:

• A complete management framework
• Simplified hardware support for fastest time-to-market
• Comprehensive VLAN solution

NextHop's Dynamic Network Architecture (DNA) ensures portability, stability, and easy addition of advanced features, such as integrated layer-2–7 switching, and stackability. Pre-ported to Linux, GateD NGS reference designs are immediately available on a variety of Broadcom XGS platforms.

For the absolute in time to market and feature completeness, GateD NGS with NextHop DNA is pre-integrated with other software offerings from NextHop for out-of-the-box solutions.

GateD® UNS

NextHop UNS is the world’s first turnkey, enterprise-class software solution for unified switching. NextHop UNS enables network equipment manufacturers to accelerate time to market, and, more importantly, time to revenue for new switching products at significantly lower price points compared to existing, overlay solutions. Key features of NextHop UNS include:

• Integrated Ethernet/WLAN switching - Enabling truly unified networks, and eliminating the operational and capital expense of maintaining an overlay WLAN network;
• Simple, centralized management - Seamlessly integrates with enterprise-class management stations for both wireless and wired networking.; RF awareness and management and ability to manage all APs from a single user interface;
• Strong security - Enterprise-class security for wireless traffic;
• Large network scalability - Designed for carrier-class scalability, NextHop software is capable of meeting the needs of the most demanding enterprises, both today and into the future;
• Enterprise-wide mobility support - True mobility (voice, data and video), across APs, switches, and even across subnets; and fast roaming for future applications such as VoWLAN