Product overview, Chapter 1 – Brocade BigIron RX Series Hardware Reference Manual User Manual
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Product Overview
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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:
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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.
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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.
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Ultra-low latency routing of up to 512,000 IPv4 routes in hardware.
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Support for a comprehensive set of standards-based routing protocols including RIP, IS-IS,
BGP4, and OSFP.
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Foundry Direct Routing (FDR) with rule-based ACLs provide wire-speed forwarding, filtering and
accelerated convergence.
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End-to-end QoS delivery with Advanced Bandwidth Management (ABM) features.
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The High availability (redundancy) of the following BigIron RX Series critical components are:
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Redundant management modules with Hitless Management Failover (HMF)
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Redundant switch fabric elements
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Redundant fans
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Interface modules with hot-pleadable optics
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Hot-swappable power supplies
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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.
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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.
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A management (10/100/1000BaseTX Ethernet) port that can provide connectivity to your
existing management network.