Brocade Announces New Hardware and Software for Brocade MLXe Routers to Help Transition to the "New IP" - Seite 2

"Platform scalability is always high on our agenda. To deal with this scalability we are constantly looking for the newest and most powerful equipment. Brocade has been our trusted supplier of innovative hardware and software solutions for many years now and we are pleased to also select their newest feature for our platform," said Henk Steenman, CTO at AMS-IX. "The Brocade MLXe fits very nicely into the rest of our infrastructure, which features a multivendor network. It easily supports the bandwidth we need as the demands on our own network are evolving."

Brocade delivers a truly open and complete Software-Defined Networking (SDN) solution with the recently announced Brocade Vyatta® Controller and the Brocade MLXe, providing the flexibility of open SDN backed by the proven experience and support from a trusted partner. As a result, organizations can accelerate their software networking transformation with a dynamic, flexible framework for business modernization. The robust carrier-class architecture of the Brocade Vyatta Controller is fully tested with the OpenFlow 1.3 implementation in the Brocade MLXe carrier-class router, enabling complete SDN solutions optimized for the specific needs of service provider and data center networks.

"Networks today have much more demand put on them than ever before. In support of The New IP, we strive to help our customers modernize their networks with the most robust scalable, flexible, and open solutions possible," said Jason Nolet, vice president, Switching, Routing, and Analytics, Brocade. "The Brocade MLXe also provides a seamless transition to real-world SDN with support for OpenFlow 1.3 in the first implementation that provides interworking between legacy forwarding and new software-defined forwarding. This capability provides a logical path for network operators to integrate OpenFlow into existing networks."

New Supporting Elements:

• 20-port 10 GbE Interface Module with combo 10/1G support and MACsec encryption
• 2-port 100 GbE Interface Module with CFP2 interface
• Significant OpenFlow 1.3 features including SSL/TLS and Accounting with QoS, Group Table, and QinQ
• Unmatched SDN performance with full 12-tuple L2+L3+L4 matching for up to 128k flows with support for full 100G flow size
• First carrier-grade open solution for end-to-end multi- data center orchestration via OpenStack
• Advanced forwarding scale for up to 2 million IPv4 plus 800,000 IPv6 routes
• Agile programmable networks via Brocade VersaScale processor
• Industry-leading wire-speed scale-out performance with deep buffers and high port density

Brocade MLX Series