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Today’s Enterprise network is critical to

the ongoing operations of the organization. Network administrators are concerned about zero downtime on the network, securing the network from DoS attacks, cyber-spying, and malicious users, and maintaining data integrity and confidentiality, without adding excessive cost or impacting performance. All this in a structure that allows for graceful growth as the Enterprise grows.

The BigIron RX Series incorporates exceptional resiliency, security and scalability in an architecture designed to scale from the edge to the core to minimize TCO. The resilient design includes redundant management modules, switch fabrics, fans and power supplies. This hardware resiliency is enhanced with software resiliency including hitless system failover, graceful restart, MRP, VSRP, and VRRP for Layer 2 and Layer 3 resiliency. High priority voice and data traffic fly through the chassis utilizing the high performance

hardware-based QoS features of the RX Series. Wire-speed security is maintained by locking out unauthorized users with port security, by filtering DoS and unauthorized traffic with ACLs, and by monitoring traffic flows with sFlow. The BigIron RX Series allows you to grow from just 24 ports of 10/100/ 1000 at the edge up to 1,536 ports of 10/100/ 1000 or 128 ports of 10-Gigabit Ethernet in the core. The BigIron RX Series provides one common architecture that meets the demands of today’s, and tomorrow’s Enterprise network needs with high performance, resiliency, security and scalability with low TCO.

Brocade for Enterprise and Application Hosting Solutions

Data centers are the core of business operations requiring high density, high performance, high security and low latency switching to ensure connectivity to mission critical applications. The increasing value of the data center to business operations necessitates that data and network integrity, confidentiality and security must be maintained without impacting performance.

The BigIron RX Series addresses these needs by acting as the gateway and switch fabric of the data center. The density of the RX Series allows for growth from the smallest to the largest data center. Port aggregation allows for high performance interconnects up to 80 Gbps increasing the availability of the server farm.

Brocade hardware based IronShield security features protect the server farm against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and provide security for maintaining network integrity. The sFlow functionality supplies the network access information required to track who has accessed which server on the network as a means to provide network usage audit trails. Utilizing Brocade wire-speed switching and filtering to screen and direct traffic to the appropriate server and block undesired traffic with minimal latency ensure the optimal operation, security and integrity

of the network and data center.

Figure 1.

Enterprise infrastructure solutions.

Figure 2.

Enterprise and application hosting solutions.

FastIron SuperX			BigIron RX-32
			1-GbE
10/100/1000 Wiring Closet			Cluster
			Computing
BigIron RX-4
			10-GbE
1-GbE 802.3AD			NAS
1-GbE 802.3AD
link aggregation			App
link aggregation

			Servers
Fiber Distribution			Fiber Distribution
10/100/1000 Aggregation			10/100/1000 Aggregation