Foundry Networks manual Product Highlights, System Summary, Feature, BIGIRON RX-4, BIGIRON RX-8

Product Highlights

tSystem redundancy (switch, management and power) across all BigIron RX chassis—BigIron RX-4, BigIron RX-8, BigIron RX-16 and BigIron RX-32

tInterchangeable half-height line modules reduce sparing costs and provide cost-effective modular growth (i.e., invest as needed)

tCompact chassis design supports very high-density single rack configurations—up to 192 wire-speed 10-Gigabit Ethernet and 2,304 wire-speed Gigabit Ethernet in standard 7-foot Telco rack

tScalable hardware-based IP routing to 512,000 IPv4 routes per line module

tPowerful suite of unicast and multicast IPv4 and IPv6 protocol support

tRobust and scalable protocols for fast service restoration in the event of equipment failure or topology change

tAdvanced virtual output queue (VoQ) design eliminates head of line blocking and provides scalable quality of service

tFlexible traffic policies supported with single rate and dual-rate traffic policing with three color marking

tEnd to End QoS supported with hardware based honoring and marking and congestion management

tNetwork Security ensured with line rate filtering, QoS protections and traffic monitoring

tHigh-capacity 80 Gbps cross-module link aggregation supports high-bandwidth inter-switch trunking

tHigh-availability design features redundant and hot-pluggable hardware, hitless Layer 2 software upgrades and graceful BGP and OSPF restart

tAdvanced non-blocking Clos fabric features adaptive self-routing with graceful system degradation in the event of two or more module failures

tEmbedded sFlow per port supports scalable hardware-based traffic monitoring across all switch ports without impacting performance

System Summary

FEATURE	BIGIRON RX-4	BIGIRON RX-8	BIGIRON RX-16	BIGIRON RX-32
I/O Module Slots	4	8	16	32
Switching capacity per system
Available data capacity	400 Gbps	800 Gbps	1.60 Tbps	3.2 Tbps
Total switch capacity	960 Gbps	1.92 Tbps	3.84 Tbps	5.12 Tbps
Packet forwarding capacity	286 Mpps	571 Mpps	1,142 Mpps	2.284 Mpps
per system
Max 10-GbE ports per system	16	32	64	128
Max 1-GbE ports per system	192	384	768	1,536
Height (inches/rack units)	7"/4RU	12.25"/7RU	24.5"/14RU	57.75"/33RU
Airflow	Side-to-Side	Side-to-Side	Front-to-Back	Front-to-Back
Power supply redundancy	M+N	M+N	M+N	M+N

(M = Number of supplies needed for fully loaded system and N = 1 to M supply redundancy)

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