| Product overview |
Businesses continue to strive to be competitively superior and demand network infrastructures be resilient, secure, and do more with less. As requirements to protect, optimize, and grow the enterprise have extended from basic connectivity to a much higher level of intelligent service-based infrastructures, the network has evolved to provide an even greater value to the organizations. The Brocade FastIron SuperX family of PoE-ready switches provides a superior scalable foundation for better operational efficiency and faster response to business opportunities today and into the future.The FastIron SuperX family extends control from the network edge to the backbone with intelligent network services, including superior quality of service (QoS), predictable performance, advanced security, comprehensive management, and integrated resiliency. Additionally, the FastIron SuperX family offers compatibility in a common operating system, and a shared interface and power supply modules reduce the cost of ownership by minimizing operational expenses and improving return on investment (ROI).The FastIron SuperX family has an extensive feature set, making it well suited for real-time collaborative applications, IP telephony, IP video, e-learning, wireless LANs, and raising the organization's productivity. The FastIron SuperX family delivers wire-speed performance and ultra low latency, which are ideal for converged network applications such as VoIP and video conferencing. These platforms present the industry's most scalable and resilient PoE design, with a robust feature set to secure and simplify the deployment of an edge-to-core converged network. In addition, the FastIron SuperX family supports high-density 10 Gigabit Ethernet for enterprise backbone deployments.In addition, service providers will benefit from the power that IronWare operating system's networking intelligence offers, including advanced Layer 2 services, the Brocade Metro Ring Protocol (MRP) for rapid service restoration in ring-based topologies, VLAN stacking for tunneled VLAN services, and rich bandwidth management for controlling network utilization.The management modules utilize high-performance system processors with high-capacity memory for scalable networking up to a routing capacity of 1 million BGP routes and 20 BGP peers. |