Extreme Networks Product Brief
Make Your Network Mobile
Summit X460 Series
Summit® X460 series switches—providing high availability, control
and simplified management of your network with ExtremeXOS®.
Features
• High availability to reduce or eliminate network outages
• Voice-grade SummitStack™ 40 Gbps, SummitStack-V80
80 Gbps high-speed stacking or SummitStack-V
longer distance stacking
• Flexible Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE-plus) to meet
the growing demand of converged network
applications
• Advanced Layer 2 – 3 switching with MPLS/H-VPLS
support
• Comprehensive security
• Threat detection and response instrumentation to
react to network intrusion with CLEAR-Flow Security
Rules Engine
• User policy, host integrity enforcement and
Identity Management
• Virtualized Data Center support: Direct Attach™ and
XNV™ (ExtremeXOS Network Virtualization)
• Ease of management
Target Applications
• Advanced edge switch for campus networks or core
switch for small networks
• Aggregation switch in a traditional three-tiered network
• Top-of-rack switch for data centers with optional
high-speed 80 Gbps cross-rack stacking at up to
100 meters
• Interconnect switch providing low latency connections
for High Performance Cluster Computing (HPCC)
• DSLAM aggregation, active Ethernet access or access
aggregation device in a Carrier Ethernet network
• Access or access aggregation switch in a business
E-Line or E-LAN over VPLS network
Extreme Networks® Summit X460 series switches
are based on ExtremeXOS, the revolutionary core-class
operating system. Whether deployed at the network
core or edge, or as an aggregation device, the
Summit X460 series benefits from the highly robust and
modular architecture of ExtremeXOS and provides high
levels of availability, resilience and simplified manage-
ment of your entire network.
As an edge switch offering optimum support for
converged applications, the Summit X460 series
provides low latency line-rate performance and supports
IEEE 802.3at standards-based PoE-plus. Summit X460
switches are highly flexible and scalable, making them
ideal aggregation switches or a top-of-rack switch
solution offering cross-rack stacking within data centers
and longer-reach stacking options among data centers.
Summit X460 switches are good choices for DSLAM or
CMTS aggregation or active Ethernet access.
The versatile Summit X460 series supports a full range
of Layer 2 – 4 features on each port. Each switch
supports optional 40 or 80 Gigabits per second (Gbps)
stacking modules and optional two-port 10 Gigabit
Ethernet in a compact 1RU format. The switches also
support the new SummitStack-V capability to utilize 10
GbE ports as stacking ports, enabling long-distance
stacking of up to 40 km. In addition, Summit X460
switches support optional dual, hot-swappable AC/DC
power supplies and a hot swappable fan tray to ensure
continuous network operation that is crucial to meeting
your business needs.
With the Summit X460 series, Extreme Networks
continues its tradition of simplifying network deploy-
ment through consistent use of common architecture,
delivering line-rate IPv6 capabilities for Gigabit Ethernet
LAN environments.
