Caspian Networks spokesperson Dallas Kachan said in an interview that the company put up the preview late last night. In its current configuration, the Apeiro system scales to 155 Tbps, and will scale infinitely beyond in subsequent releases. Apeiro has been designed to such high levels of availability that it doesn't offer a switch restart operation.
Additional specifics are available via the company's Web site .
Currently, though, the company isn't saying much else about the product, including specific performance specifications, Kachan said. Kachan said he could not provide a more-specific date for a full launch. He did say, though, that Caspian Networks' technology is currently in trials with an unidentified global peer-data service provider, and that the company is currently talking with other service providers to trial the technology. Plans for beta testing the product are slated to begin later this year, Kachan also said. In early April, Caspian replaced Rance with networking executive Bill Sickler, who was most recently president and CEO of publicly traded Gadzoox Networks, a manufacturer of storage network hubs and switches.