BlueFire® Access Solutions and Enterprise Switching Solutions families include IP Routing, WAN access, and workgroup LAN, edge, and core switching products. The BlueFire solutions break conventional business barriers by providing reliability, survivability, security, high speed QoS and remote connectivity.

These competitively priced products offer network designers an excellent alternative that delivers the interoperability, functionality and reliability customers expect and demand. BlueFire Access Solutions address today’s business challenges by providing reliable and highly available communications to the branch office and mobile worker. With support for legacy technologies like Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and Packet Over SONET (POS) to advanced IP capabilities over Ethernet, xDSL, Frame Relay and T1, the BlueFire Access Solutions Family gives you all the right connections. At the central site, remote/branch office or at home, a broad range of capabilities allows network designers to build an infrastructure exactly suited to the company’s business needs.

BlueFire Enterprise Switching Solutions offer a wide variety of Layer 2 / Layer 3 switch capacities with scalable fabrics ranging from 8Gbps to 96Gbps (16Gbps through 192Gbps full-duplex, bi-directional), all supporting both 10/100 Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet. They can thus accommodate the business requirements of small workgroups, intermediate-to-large enterprises or corporate backbones.

When working within a NEON environment, the BlueFire Access Solutions and the BlueFire Enterprise Switching Solutions support Voice over IP and CCIS/FCCS for full-featured PBX-to-PBX and phone-to-phone internetworking.

With NEC's long history of networking and switching research and development, the BlueFire-based networking infrastructure offers excellent investment protection: BlueFire products are designed to be compatible with standards-based IP routing and switching, allowing them to confidently be implemented into existing networks.