Brocade NetIron CER 2000 Series Hardware Guide (Supporting R05.6.00) - Manual (Page 11)

Brocade NetIron CES 2000 Series and NetIron CER 2000 Series Hardware Installation Guide 1
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Product Overview
Introduction
Network planners today have to expand and extend the range of services offered further into the
edge of the network. This requires extending the intelligence and high-touch processing capabilities
to the network edge— whether in a metro network, a campus network or in a data center. The
challenge at the edge of the network is compounded by the need to flexibly define and easily
manage customer services in an intuitive manner. Further, of many rollouts. Whether deployed
from a central office or from remote huts, space is an important constraint for such providers.
In order to meet these challenges, the NetIron Carrier Ethernet Switch (CES) 2000 Series and
NetIron Carrier Ethernet Router (CER) 2000 Series were purpose-built to offer flexible, secure and
advanced processing capabilities in a compact form factor. The Brocade NetIron CES 2000 Series
2000 and NetIron CER 2000 Series 2000 Series are compact 1 RU, multi-service edge or
aggregation devices with a powerful set of capabilities chosen to combine performance with rich
functionality at the edge of the network. The Brocade NetIron CES 2000 Series 2000 Series and
NetIron CER 2000 Series 2000 Series devices offer network planners a rich set of
high-performance IPv4, Classic Layer 2, Provider Bridge (PB) and Provider Backbone Bridge (PBB)
functionalities in the same device. With these capabilities, a diverse set of applications ranging
from metro edge networks, ISPs, data centers, large enterprises, government networks, and
education or research can be addressed with the Brocade NetIron CES 2000 Series 2000 Series
and NetIron CER 2000 Series 2000 Series.
This guide includes procedures for installing the hardware and configuring essential, basic
parameters such as permanent passwords and IP addresses. The basic software configuration
procedures show how to perform tasks using the CLI. This guide also includes instructions for
managing and maintaining the NetIron Carrier Ethernet Switch (CES) and NetIron Carrier Ethernet
Router (CER) hardware.
There are eight flavors to the NetIron Carrier Ethernet Switch (CES) 2000 Series:
• Brocade NetIron CES 2000 Series 2024C-4X — accommodates 24-port 10/100/1000 RJ45
model with 4 combination 100/1000 Hybrid Fiber (HF) ports and 4x10G SFP+ uplinks
• Brocade NetIron CES 2000 Series 2024F-4X — accommodates 24-port 100/1000 Hybrid Fiber
(HF) model with 4 combination 10/100/1000 RJ45 ports and 4x10G SFP+ uplinks
• Brocade NetIron CES 2000 Series 2024C — accommodates 24-port 10/100/1000 RJ45
model with 4 combination 100/1000 Hybrid Fiber (HF) ports and an optional field upgradeable
2x10G uplink slot
• Brocade NetIron CES 2000 Series 2024F — accommodates 24-port 100/1000 Hybrid Fiber
(HF) model with 4 combination 10/100/1000 RJ45 ports and an optional field upgradeable
2x10G XFP uplink slot
• Brocade NetIron CES 2000 Series 2048C — accommodates 48-port 10/100/1000 RJ45
model with 4 combination 100/1000 Hybrid Fiber (HF) ports
• Brocade NetIron CES 2000 Series 2048CX — accommodates 48-port 10/100/1000 RJ45
model with 2x10G XFP uplink ports