Short Take: Bay rechristens switching products

Bay Networks has renamed three significant switching products in its infrastructure hardware arsenal. Current gigabit-speed gear acquired via Rapid City Communications known as the f-series and Bay's own Switch Node will be rechristened the Accelar line. The company is positioning the gear as routing switches, an emerging type of hardware that handles typical LAN traffic as well as IP-based data at speeds normally associated with high-performance routers.