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B BI IG GIIR RON ON R RX-4, RX-8, RX-16, RX-32 X-4, RX-8, RX-16, RX-32
MODULAR LAYER 2/3 ETHERNET
SWITCH FAMILY
Overview
The role of data networks in our daily lives continues to expand and environments and Internet Exchanges and Internet Service
grow. Emerging needs such as application convergence, non-stop Providers (IXPs and ISPs) where non-blocking, high-density
operation, scalability and IPv6-readiness place new demands on the Ethernet switches are needed.
network. Modern network solut
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Product Highlights t Flexible traffic policies supported with single rate and dual-rate t System redundancy (switch, management and power) across traffic policing with three color marking all BigIron RX chassis—BigIron RX-4, BigIron RX-8, BigIron RX-16 and BigIron RX-32 t End to End QoS supported with hardware based honoring and marking and congestion management t Interchangeable half-height line modules reduce sparing costs and provide cost-effective modular growth (i.e., invest as ne
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Purpose-built Feature Set for Demanding Networks t Foundry Direct Routing (FDR)—The forwarding information INDUSTRY LEADING PERFORMANCE AND base (FIB) is downloaded to the hardware-based forwarding engine SCALABILITY on each line module. This memory can be pre-populated with The BigIron RX Series is the industry’s most powerful switch as many as 512,000 IPv4 and 64,000 IPv6 routes for wire-speed family, delivering up to 3.2 terabits per second data throughput routing performance. p
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t Per VLAN Spanning Tree (PVST)—Allows for control of STP COHESIVE, UNIFIED AND EASY-TO-USE on an individual VLAN basis for traffic engineering VLAN traffic NETWORK MANAGEMENT (i.e., load distribution) t Centralized network management—Foundry’s IronView Network Manager is a web-based, graphical interface tool that t Topology Groups—Dramatically improves Layer 2 control empowers network operators to seamlessly control software and protocol scalability by allowing a few instances of ST
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Applications FOUNDRY ENTERPRISE INFRASTRUCTURE SOLUTIONS Today’s Enterprise network is critical to the ongoing operations Layer 2 and Layer 3 resiliency. High priority voice and data traffic fly of the organization. Network administrators are concerned about through the chassis utilizing the high performance hardware-based zero downtime on the network, securing the network from DoS QoS features of the RX Series. Wire-speed security is maintained by attacks, cyber-spying, and malicious users,
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FOUNDRY FOR INTERNET EXCHANGE SOLUTIONS Internet Exchanges (IX) demand high-performance Layer 2 The BigIron RX Series excels in this environment. Offering topologies with high density Gigabit and 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports. high density 1-Gigabit and 10-Gigabit Ethernet together with These cross-roads of the Internet connect high-performance routers the resiliency features of the chassis make the BigIron RX Series from many Service Providers in peering relationships without an extremely cost e
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Technical Specifications General Protocols IEEE COMPLIANCE IPv6 Transitioning – RFC 791 IP – RFC 2893 Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts – 802.3ae 10-Gigabit Ethernet – RFC 792 ICMP and Routers – 802.3ab Gigabit Ethernet over Copper – RFC 793 TCP – RFC 3056 Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds – 802.3x Flow Control – RFC 783 TFTP – 802.3ad Link Aggregation NETWORK MANAGEMENT – RFC 826 ARP – 802.1Q VLAN Tagging – IronView Network Manager (INM) Web-based graphical – RFC 768 UDP – 802.1D Br
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BIGIRON RX SERIES SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS SYSTEM MAX @100 VAC @200 VAC @-48VDC Current Power Thermal Output Current Power Thermal Output Current Power Thermal Output Amps Watts BTU/HR Amps Watts BTU/HR Amps Watts BTU/HR BigIron RX-32 N/A N/A N/A 57 11,353 38,746 237 11,353 38,746 BigIron RX -16 49 4,905 16,741 24 4,905 16,741 102 4,905 16,741 BigIron RX- 8 24 2,417 8,249 12 2,417 8,249 50 2,417 8,249 BigIron RX-4 12 1,217 4,155 6 1,217 4,155 25 1,217 4,155 BIGIRON RX PHYSICAL SPECIFICAT
