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Today’s Enterprise network is critical to the ongoing operations
of the organization. Network administrators are concerned about
zero downtime on the network, securing the network from DoS
attacks, cyber-spying, and malicious users, and maintaining data
integrity and confidentiality, without adding excessive cost or
impacting performance. All this in a structure that allows for
graceful growth as the Enterprise grows.
The BigIron RX Series incorporates exceptional resiliency, security
and scalability in an architecture designed to scale from the edge to
the core to minimize TCO. The resilient design includes redundant
management modules, switch fabrics, fans and power supplies. This
hardware resiliency is enhanced with software resiliency including
hitless system failover, graceful restart, MRP, VSRP, and VRRP for
Layer 2 and Layer 3 resiliency. High priority voice and data traffic fly
through the chassis utilizing the high performance hardware-based
QoS features of the RX Series. Wire-speed security is maintained by
locking out unauthorized users with port security, by filtering
DoS and unauthorized traffic with ACLs, and by monitoring
traffic flows with sFlow. The BigIron RX Series allows you to
grow from just 24 ports of 10/100/1000 at the edge up to 1,536
ports of 10/100/1000 or 128 ports of 10-Gigabit Ethernet in the
core. BigIron RX Series provides one common architecture that
meets the demands of today’s, and tomorrow’s Enterprise network
needs with high performance, resiliency, security and scalability
with low TCO.
Applications
FOUNDRY ENTERPRISE INFRASTRUCTURE SOLUTIONS
FOUNDRY FOR ENTERPRISE AND APPLICATION HOSTING SOLUTIONS
Data centers are the core of business operations requiring high
density, high performance, high security and low latency switching to
ensure connectivity to mission critical applications.The increasing
value of the data center to business operations necessitates that data and
network integrity, confidentiality and security must be maintained
without impacting performance.
The BigIron RX Series addresses these needs by acting as the
gateway and switch fabric of the data center. The density of the
RX Series allows for growth from the smallest to the largest data
center. Port aggregation allows for high performance interconnects
up to 80 Gbps increasing the availability of the server farm.
Foundry’s hardware based IronShield
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security features protect
the server farm against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and provide
security for maintaining network integrity. The sFlow functionality
supplies the network access information required to track who has
accessed which server on the network as a means to provide network
usage audit trails. Utilizing Foundry’s wire-speed switching and
filtering to screen and direct traffic to the appropriate server and
block undesired traffic with minimal latency ensure the optimal
operation, security and integrity of the network and data center.
