Overview:
The Brocade MLX Series of advanced routers delivers unprecedented scale and performance, high reliability, and cost-saving operational efficiency for the world’s most demanding service provider and enterprise networks. With OpenFlow support in true hybrid mode, the Brocade MLX Series delivers industry-leading 10 GbE and 100 GbE density for software-defined networks in conjunction with traditional routing, providing flexible flow control to respond to dynamic traffic patterns and address business needs.
Features & Benefits:
S4-, 8-, 16-, and 32-slot systems for maximum deployment versatility
Up to 9.5 billion packets per second routing performance with non-blocking 15.36 Tbps data capacity
Ideal for demanding, high-density environments:
- 64 100 GbE ports per system
- 128 40 GbE ports per system
- 768 10 GbE ports per system
- 1,536 1 GbE ports per system
Comprehensive, wire-speed, dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 routing support based on the Brocade Multi-Service IronWare OS:
- High-performance, robust routing using Forwarding Information Base (FIB) programming in hardware
- RIP/RIPng, OSPF/OSPFv3, IS-IS/IS-IS for IPv6, and BGP-4/BGP-MP for IPv6
- Secure Multi-VRF routing for supporting virtual routing applications over nonMPLS backbones
- VRRP and VRRP-E
- Connecting IPv6 islands over IPv4 MPLS using IPv6 Provider Edge (6PE) routers
- 6VPE enabling IPv6 multitenancy to the edge of the cloud
- 127-bit IPv6 interface addresses
Industry-leading scalability up to:*
- 10 million BGP routes
- 2.4 million IPv4 routes in hardware (FIB)
- 1.8 million IPv6 routes in hardware (FIB)
- 153,600 multicast routes
- 2,000 BGP peers per system
- 2,000 BGP/MPLS VPNs and up to 1 million VPN routes
- 48,000 VLLs per system
- 16,000 VPLS instances and up to 1 million VPLS MAC addresses and 64,000 RSVP-TE LSPs
- 4,094 VLANs and up to 2 million MAC addresses
- Large-scale Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP); up to 32 paths for unicast and multicast
