PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the production availability of its digital crosspoint switch integrated circuit (IC), which is designed for very high bandwidth networking systems used in the Metro core. The crosspoint switch IC adds to Agilent's line-up of switching products for storage and networking applications, including an 8-port, 4x InfiniBand switch IC. The Agilent HDMP-3268 non-blocking crosspoint switch IC is a 68-by-68 port device designed to route data in high-performance core network equipment, such as optical cross-connects, add-drop multiplexers, backplane interconnects for large Fibre Channel and ATM switches, and scalable optical switch fabrics. Each data channel supports speeds up to 3.2 Gb/s, providing total throughput of over 200 Gb/s. The crosspoint switch, combined with Agilent's 12-channel parallel optics modules (HFBR-712BP transmitter and HFBR-722BP receiver), comprise Agilent's full data-path solution for switch fabrics up to 2,048 by 2,048 in size. "Agilent's low jitter crosspoint switch IC simplifies the design of high-capacity switch fabrics via direct coupling to additional crosspoint switches," said Martin Scott, vice president and general manager of Agilent's Storage and Networking Division. "Equipment manufacturers also appreciate the system flexibility our switch IC provides through its easy interfacing to the backplane or parallel optics transceivers." Agilent Technologies Inc.