Brocade Communications Systems RX Series Switch User Manual


 
APPLICATIONS
Brocade Enterprise Infrastructure
Solutions
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the ongoing operations of the organization.
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zero downtime on the network, securing the
network from DoS attacks, cyber-spying, and
malicious users, and maintaining data integrity
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cost or impacting performance. All this in a
structure that allows for graceful growth as
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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,
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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,
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sFlow. The BigIron RX Series allows you to
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core. The BigIron RX Series provides one
common architecture that meets the demands
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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,
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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
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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
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the appropriate server and block undesired
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optimal operation, security and integrity
of the network and data center.
BigIron RX-16
BigIron RX-32
BigIron RX-32
10-GbE
1-GbE
1 and 10-GbE front end application servers
10-GbE data servers
Data Center Routing and
Switching Access
FastIron SuperX
BigIron RX-32
10/100/1000 Wiring Closet
BigIron RX-4
Fiber Distribution
10/100/1000 Aggregation
Fiber Distribution
10/100/1000 Aggregation
1-GbE 802.3AD
link aggregation
App
Servers
NAS
Cluster
Computing
1-GbE
10-GbE
Figure 1.
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solutions.
Figure 2.
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hosting solutions.