Brocade Communications Systems Bigiron RX Series - Manual (Page 4)

aPPliCations
brocade enterprise infrastructure
solutions
today’s Enterprise network is critical to
the ongoing operations of the organization.
Network administrators are concerned about
zero downtime on the network, securing the
network from DoS attacks, cyber-spying, and
malicious users, and maintaining data integrity
and confidentiality, without adding excessive
cost or impacting performance. All this in a
structure that allows for graceful growth as
the Enterprise grows.
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,
and VRRP for Layer 2 and Layer 3 resiliency.
High priority voice and data traffic fly through
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,
by filtering doS and unauthorized traffic with
acLs, and by monitoring traffic flows with
sFlow. The BigIron RX Series allows you to
grow from just 24 ports of 10/100/ 1000 at
the edge up to 1,536 ports of 10/100/ 1000
or 128 ports of 10-Gigabit Ethernet in the
core. The BigIron RX Series provides one
common architecture that meets the demands
of today’s, and tomorrow’s Enterprise network
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,
confidentiality and security must be maintained
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
interconnects up to 80 Gbps increasing the
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
and filtering to screen and direct traffic to
the appropriate server and block undesired
traffic with minimal latency ensure the
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.
Enterprise infrastructure
solutions.
Figure 2.
Enterprise and application
hosting solutions.