Dell PowerConnect B-RX8 Installation Guide - Page 13

Product Overview Chapter 1 In this chapter •Product overview 1 •Hardware features 2 •Supported software features 23 Product overview The BigIron RX Series switch provides high-performance L2/3 switching for the Enterprise, large data centers, and grid computing topologies. The BigIron RX Series switch provides the following benefits: • 240 Gbps full-duplex capacity per full slot and over 1.92 Terabit switching capacity for wire-speed, non-blocking switching and routing of up to 1.14 Bpps throughput capacity. • Non-blocking 10 GbE and 1 GbE port density of up to 64 non-blocking 10 Gigabit Ethernet or 384 Gigabit Ethernet ports within a 16-slot chassis and up to 192 10 Gigabit Ethernet or 1,152 Gigabit Ethernet ports in a standard 7-foot Telco rack. • Ultra-low latency routing of up to 512,000 IPv4 routes in hardware. • Support for a comprehensive set of standards-based routing protocols including RIP, IS-IS, BGP4, and OSFP. • Foundry Direct Routing (FDR) with rule-based ACLs provide wire-speed forwarding, filtering and accelerated convergence. • End-to-end QoS delivery with Advanced Bandwidth Management (ABM) features. • The High availability (redundancy) of the following BigIron RX Series critical components are: • Redundant management modules with Hitless Management Failover (HMF) • Redundant switch fabric elements • Redundant fans • Interface modules with hot-pleadable optics • Hot-swappable power supplies • 80 Gbps of cross-module link aggregation based on 802.3ad for reliant bandwidth scalability between any two BigIron RX Series 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches. • Built-in sFlow™ technology (RFC 3176) delivers scalable network monitoring, accounting and billing at 10 Gbps speed using Layer 2-7 per-port information, offering detailed capacity planning and security analysis solutions. • A management (10/100/1000BaseTX Ethernet) port that can provide connectivity to your existing management network. BigIron RX Installation Guide 1 53-1001811-01