Brocade Communications Systems S3-1002483-03 manual Product Overview, Product overview

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Product Overview	1

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•Product overview	1
•Hardware features	2
•Supported software features	20

Product overview

The BigIron RX Series switch provides high-performance L2/3 switching for the Enterprise, large data centers, and grid computing topologies.

The BigIron RX Series switch provides the following benefits:

•240 Gbps full-duplex capacity per full slot and over 1.92 Terabit switching capacity for wire-speed, non-blocking switching and routing of up to 1.14 Bpps throughput capacity.

•Non-blocking 10 GbE and 1 GbE port density of up to 64 non-blocking 10 Gigabit Ethernet or 384 Gigabit Ethernet ports within a 16-slot chassis and up to 192 10 Gigabit Ethernet or 1,152 Gigabit Ethernet ports in a standard 7-foot Telco rack.

•Ultra-low latency routing of up to 512,000 IPv4 routes in hardware.

•Support for a comprehensive set of standards-based routing protocols including RIP, IS-IS, BGP4, and OSFP.

•Foundry Direct Routing (FDR) with rule-based ACLs provide wire-speed forwarding, filtering and accelerated convergence.

•End-to-end QoS delivery with Advanced Bandwidth Management (ABM) features.

•The High availability (redundancy) of the following BigIron RX Series critical components are:

-Redundant management modules with Hitless Management Failover (HMF)

-Redundant switch fabric elements

-Redundant fans

-Interface modules with hot-pleadable optics

-Hot-swappable power supplies

•80 Gbps of cross-module link aggregation based on 802.3ad for reliant bandwidth scalability between any two BigIron RX Series 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches.

•Built-in sFlow™ technology (RFC 3176) delivers scalable network monitoring, accounting and billing at 10 Gbps speed using Layer 2-7 per-port information, offering detailed capacity planning and security analysis solutions.

•A management (10/100/1000BaseTX Ethernet) port that can provide connectivity to your existing management network.

Brocade BigIron RX Series Hardware Installation Guide	1
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