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Market-Leading Scalability and Performance
The X-Series delivers unrivalled high-performance, scalable routing
for enterprise networks. Supporting over 2.5 Tbps switching capacity
and over 1.5 million routes, it exceeds the requirements of the largest
enterprise networks. The system has been architected with excess
switching capacity to support future performance enhancements through
the addition of new IOMs.
Non-Stop High-Availability
The X-Series provides the industry’s leading high-availability architecture,
designed to assure enterprise business continuity.
• No Single Point of Failure
− Full redundancy of all common hardware elements
− Multiple power supplies and fan trays enable cooling and
power resiliency (each fan tray contains multiple fans; failure of a
single fan will not affect proper cooling and continuous operation)
− Completely separate control and forwarding planes with dedicated
bandwidth for management traffic
− Passive backplane
• Deterministic Quality of Service
− Virtual output queuing architecture guaranteeing QoS while
maintaining system performance for all traffic patterns and traffic
loads, eliminating the need for costly output buffering and head-of-
line blocking issues inherent in legacy network architectures
• Transparent Software Recovery
− Hitless software failover capable of providing seamless software
failure recovery without traffic interruption
− Standards-based logical Layer 2 and Layer 3 resiliency protocol
support, including meshed OSPF, VRRP, policy-based routing,
synchronized QoS, and security ACL states
21st Century Security Architecture
The X-Series has been built from the ground up to provide the world’s
most secure core and data center router.
• Secure Management
− Support for AAA and RADIUS provides network authentication,
secure management, and access control for network resources
− Secure Shell and Secure Copy provide secure administration and
management of the platform
− Support for the Enterasys policy management architecture;
powerful and flexible management capabilities are provided via
support for NMS Console, Policy Manager, Inventory Manager, and
Automated Security Manager
• Denial of Service Protection
− Separate control and data plane ensuring traffic isolation,
guaranteeing users access to manage the device even under severe
network load and/or malicious attack
− Capability to assign priority to control plane traffic and
automatically rate limit traffic based on pre-defined
threshold allowances
• High-Performance Secure Routing and Switching
− Secure switching capabilities include 802.1s multiple spanning,
Rapid Spanning Tree to provide network topology, stability, and
resiliency, 802.3ad Link Aggregation allowing cross module trunk
ports, a maximum number of trunk groups of up to 32, and up to
1024 configured VLANs enabling segregation of network traffic
− High-performance routing protocol support for RIP, OSPF, IS-IS,
and BGP-4 scaling to one million route table entries
− Policy-based routing provides enhanced control in the network
− Flexible network processing engine
Features
