High-Density 10 GbE Fixed Switch for Campus Aggregation and Top-of-Rack Deployment
Today's campus environments are migrating to 10/40 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) as enterprises rapidly adopt applications such as high-definition video for collaboration and BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), which drive the need for resilient, high-bandwidth enterprise access networks. To meet these challenges, campus network solutions must provide a broad set of capabilities-including higher levels of performance, reliability, security, Quality of Service (QoS), and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). The advanced Layer 3 functionality on the Brocade® ICX® 6650 Switch has a rich campus feature set, making it the lead campus aggregation and small core switch among the Brocade ICX family of Ethernet switches for campus LAN environments. In addition to a rich Layer 3 feature set, the Brocade ICX 6650 also supports Multi-Chassis Trunking (MCT) and is an integral part of the Brocade HyperEdge® Architecture for campus LANs.
At the same time, data centers are also expanding as the demand for data andstorage continues to grow exponentially. Moreover, requirements such as application convergence, non-stop operation, scalability, high availability, and power efficiency are placing even greater demands on the network infrastructure.
Part of the Brocade ICX family of Ethernet switches for campus LAN and classic Ethernet data center environments, the Brocade ICX 6650 Switch is a 1U high- performance, high-availability, and high- density 10/40 GbE solution that meets the needs of business-sensitive campus deployments and High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments. With industry-leading price/performance and a low-latency, cut-through, non-blocking architecture, the Brocade ICX 6650 provides a cost-effective, robust solution for the most demanding deployments.
