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No single point of failure based on unique hardware and software
mechanisms, such as separate control and forwarding planes, provides
carrier-class availability at enterprise prices.
X-Series for High-Performance Grid and
Cluster Computing
High-performance grid and cluster computing is an emerging computing
model that is moving out of the research and development arena and into
the enterprise. Many applications can benefit from the grid infrastructure,
including collaborative engineering, data exploration, high-throughput
computing, and distributed supercomputing. Grid and cluster computing
architectures provide the ability to perform higher throughput computing
and are based around the creation of enormous “virtual supercomputers”
requiring massive amounts of CPU cycles.
The X-Series is the ideal solution for this type of environment, providing
the non-blocking, raw throughput performance, and high-availability
architecture required to implement this type of infrastructure. Capable
of routing and switching at wire speed, the X-Series switching capacity
of 2.56 Tbps and 640 Gbps of I/O module throughput provides
unsurpassed performance characteristics. The X-Series provides massive
capacity and network continuity, and is once again a critical element
within this type of environment. The X-Series carrier-class, high-
availability services contribute to a 24x7 operation.
High-Performance Processors
IEEE Compliance
• 802.1D Switching
• 802.1Q Virtual LANs
• 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree
• 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree
• 802.3 Gigabit Ethernet
• 802.3ad Link Aggregation
• 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet
• 802.3x Flow Control
• Diff Serv
• Equal Cost Multi Path RFC Compliance
• GVRP
RFC Compliance
General
• Policy-Based Routing
• RFC 768 UDP
• RFC 783 TFTP
• RFC 791 IP
• RFC 792 ICMP
• RFC 793 TCP
• RFC 826 ARP
• RFC 894 IP over Ethernet
• RFC 951 BootP
• RFC 1027 Proxy ARP
• RFC 1122 Internet Host Requirements
• RFC 1191 Path MTU Discovery
• RFC 1519 CIDR
• RFC 1542 BootP Extensions
• RFC 1812 General Routing
• RFC 1981 IPv6 MTU Path Discovery
• RFC 2131/2132 DHCP/DHCP Relay
• RFC 2460 IPv6 Specification
• RFC 2464 IPv6 over Ethernet
• RFC 3587 IPv6 Global Address Format
• RFC 3596 IPv6 DNS Extensions
• RFC 4291 IPv6 Addressing Architecture
• RFC 4443 ICMPv6
• RFC 4861 IPv6 Neighbor Discovery
• RFC 4862 IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
• Route Redistribution
Unicast Routing
• IPv6 Static Routing
• RFC 1058/2453 RIPv1/v2
• RFC 1195 IS-IS
• RFC 1587 OSPF NSSA
• RFC 1745 OSPF Interactions
• RFC 1771 BGP-4
• RFC 1812 RIP Requirements
• RFC 1850 OSPF Traps
• RFC 1997 Communities & Attributes
• RFC 2082 RIP v2 MD5 Authentication
• RFC 2154 OSPF MD5
• RFC 2328 OSPF v2
• RFC 2370 OSPF Opaque LSA Option
• RFC 2385 BGP MD5
• RFC 2439 Route Flap Dampening
• RFC 2796 Route Reflection
• RFC 2858 Multi-Protocol Extensions for BGP4
• RFC 3065 Confederations
• RFC 3623 OSPF Graceful Restart
• RFC 3847 IS-IS Graceful Restart
Standards and Protocols
