Manufacturer: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc
Manufacturer Part Number: BR-MLX-10GX20-X2
Manufacturer Website Address: http://www.brocade.com
Brand Name: Brocade
Product Name: MLX 20-PORT 10 GBE Module
Marketing Information: Flexible Scale and Wire-Speed Throughput with Uncompromised Feature Set
Networks today are straining to support unprecedented levels of traffic due to high-bandwidth demands for on-demand personalized content. Leading-edge services such as high-definition video streaming, mobile broadband, and cloud services have significantly altered network traffic behavior. Instead of localized flows with occasional bursts, traffic flows are more collaborative over geographical distances and last longer. These new traffic patterns not only consume enormous amounts of network capacity, but also add a greater degree of complexity to network operations. Additionally, as many organizations look to offer IT services via the cloud, the need for networks to be cloud-optimized and cloud-ready is pressing. As a result, today’s network planners are seeking solutions that provide the right mix of scalability, performance, and operational simplicity.
The Brocade ® MLX ® half-slot 20-port 10 GbE/1 GbE combo module for Brocade MLXe Core Routers delivers 40 to 400 Gbps of throughput per half-slot module without compromising the performance of featuressuch as Layer 2, IPv4, IPv6, Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), OpenFlow-based Software-Defined Networking (SDN), and MAC security (MACsec). The 10 GbE/1 GbE combo ports deliver flexibility and scalability by enabling up to 640 ports of wire-speed 10 GbE or 1 GbE in a single chassis. This high-density half-slot module also uses less infrastructure to deliver services by helping to collapse network architectures, vastly improving operational efficiency and helping to reduce costs. In addition, the Brocade MLX 20-port 10 GbE/1 GbE half-slot module comes in two versions, offering a flexible scale-as-you-grow model with hardware Forwarding Information Base (FIB) capacity options in an -M version for up to 512,000 IPv4 routes or 240,000 IPv6 routes, or an -X2 version for up to 2 million IPv4 routes and 800,000 IPv6 routes.
ENSURING DATA PRIVACY THROUGH HIGH-PERFORMANCE ENCRYPTION
Today’s organizations face a wide range of data privacy challenges, from cyber attacks and third-party snooping on private networks, to compliance and regulatory requirements. Ensuring data privacy throughout the network is therefore imperative as organizations seek to enable secure operations while increasing growth, productivity, and profitability. To address this, the Brocade MLX 20-port 10 GbE module supports IEEE 802.1AE MACsec, which provides 128-bit MAC layer encryption at wire speed. MACsec provides fast, low-latency, easy-to-deploy hop-by-hop encryption, which is ideal within the campus or data center network where the physical network is owned and there is a need to support unified communications and apply policy to traffic at the switch or router level. This allows for fine-grained management of the traffic while meeting security requirements for data-in-flight.
Product Type: Expansion Module
Packaged Quantity: 1
Technical Information
Application/Usage:
- Optical Network
- Data Networking
Media & Performance
Media Type Supported: Optical Fiber
Ethernet Technology: 10 Gigabit Ethernet
Network Technology: 10GBase-X
I/O Expansions
Number of Total Expansion Slots: 20
Expansion Slot Type:
- X2
- SFP+
- SFP (mini-GBIC)
Miscellaneous
Compatibility: Brocade MLXe Series Router Chassis:
- MLXe-4
- MLXe-8
- MLXe-16
- MLXe-32
