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Brocade MLX Series

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-port mode, the Brocade MLX Series delivers high-density 100 GbE, 40 GbE, and 10 GbE for software-defined networks in conjunction with traditional routing, providing flexible flow control to respond to dynamic traffic patterns and address business needs.

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IEEE Compliance

  • 802.3 CSMA/CD Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications
  • 802.3ab 1000BASE-T
  • 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet
  • 802.3u 100BASE-TX, 100BASE-T4, 100BASE-FX Fast Ethernet at 100 Mbps with Auto-Negotiation
  • 802.3x Flow Control
  • 802.3z 1000BASE-X Gigabit Ethernet over fiber optic at 1 Gbps
  • 802.3ad Link Aggregation
  • 802.3ah Ethernet in the First Mile
  • 802.1Q Virtual Bridged LANs
  • 802.1D MAC Bridges
  • 802.1w Rapid STP
  • 802.1s Multiple Spanning Trees
  • 802.1ad Provider Bridges; partial support: port-based and S-tagged service interface
  • 802.1ag Connectivity Fault Management (CFM)
  • 802.3ba 100 Gigabit Ethernet
  • 802.1ab Link Layer Discovery Protocol
  • 802.1ah Provider Backbone Bridging

ITU compliance

  • Y.1731 OAM functions and mechanisms for Ethernet-based networks
  • G.8032 Ethernet Ring Protection (ERP version 1 and 2)

RFC Compliance - BGPv4

  • RFC 4271 BGPv4
  • RFC 1745 OSPF Interactions
  • RFC 1997 Communities & Attributes
  • RFC 2439 Route Flap Dampening
  • RFC 2796 Route Reflection
  • RFC 1965 BGP4 Confederations
  • RFC 2842 Capability Advertisement
  • RFC 2918 Route Refresh Capability
  • RFC 1269 Managed Objects for BGP
  • RFC 2385 BGP Session Protection via TCP MD5
  • RFC 3682 Generalized TTL Security Mechanism, for eBGP Session Protection
  • RFC 4273 BGP-4 MIB
  • RFC 4893 BGP Support for Four-octet AS Number Space
  • RFC 4724 Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP

RFC Compliance - OSPF

  • RFC 2328 OSPF v2
  • RFC 3101 OSPF NSSA
  • RFC 1745 OSPF Interactions
  • RFC 1765 OSPF Database Overflow
  • RFC 1850 OSPF Traps
  • RFC 2328 OSPF v2
  • RFC 1850 OSPF v2 MIB
  • RFC 2370 OSPF Opaque LSA Option
  • RFC 3630 TE Extensions to OSPF v2
  • RFC 3623 Graceful OSPF Restart

RFC Compliance - IS-IS

  • RFC 1195 Routing in TCP/IP and Dual Environments
  • RFC 1142 OSI IS-IS Intra-domain Routing Protocol
  • RFC 2763 Dynamic Host Name Exchange
  • RFC 2966 Domain-wide Prefix Distribution
  • RFC 5120 IS-IS Multi-Topology Support

RFC Compliance - RIP

  • RFC 1058 RIP v1
  • RFC 2453 RIP v2
  • RFC 1812 RIP Requirements

RFC Compliance - IPv4 Multicast

  • RFC 1122 Host Extensions
  • RFC 1112 IGMP
  • RFC 2236 IGMP v2
  • RFC 3376 IGMP v3
  • RFC 3973 PIM-DM
  • RFC 4601 PIM-SM
  • RFC 2858 BGP-MP
  • RFC 3618 MSDP
  • RFC 3446 Anycast RP

RFC Compliance - General Protocols

  • RFC 791 IP
  • RFC 792 ICMP
  • RFC 793 TCP
  • RFC 1350 TFTP
  • RFC 826 ARP
  • RFC 768 UDP
  • RFC 894 IP over Ethernet
  • RFC 903 RARP
  • RFC 906 TFTP Bootstrap
  • RFC 1027 Proxy ARP
  • RFC 951 BootP
  • RFC 1122 Host Extensions for IP Multicasting
  • RFC 1256 IRDP
  • RFC 1519 CIDR
  • RFC 1542 BootP Extensions
  • RFC 1812 Requirements for IPv4 Routers
  • RFC 1541 and 1542 DHCP
  • RFC 2131 BootP/DHCP Helper
  • RFC 2338 VRRP
  • RFC 854 TELNET
  • RFC 1591 DNS (client)
  • RFC 5905 Network Time Protocol

RFC Compliance - QoS

  • RFC 2475 An Architecture for Differentiated Services
  • RFC 3246 An Expedited Forwarding PHB
  • RFC 2597 Assured Forwarding PHB Group
  • RFC 2698 A Two Rate Three Color Marker

RFC Compliance - Other

  • RFC 1354 IP Forwarding MIB
  • RFC 2665 Ethernet Interface MIB
  • RFC 1757 RMON Groups 1, 2, 3, 9
  • RFC 2068 HTTP
  • RFC 2043 SNTP
  • RFC 2138 RADIUS
  • RFC 3176 sFlow
  • RFC 2863 Interfaces Group MIB
  • Draft-ietf-tcpm-tcpsecure TCP Security
  • RFC 3074 Ingress Filtering for Multihomed Networks (uRPF)
  • RFC 2784 Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
  • draft-ietf-bfd-base Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
  • draft-ietf-bfd-v4v6-1hop BFD for IPv4 and IPv6 (Single Hop); for OSPFv2, OSPFv3, IS-IS
  • RFC 4741 NETCONF (partial)
  • RFC 4087 IP Tunnel MIB

RFC Compliance - IPv6 Core

  • RFC 2460 IPv6 Specification
  • RFC 2461 IPv6 Neighbor Discovery
  • RFC 2462 IPv6 Stateless Address Auto-Configuration
  • RFC 2463 ICMPv6
  • RFC 4291 IPv6 Addressing Architecture
  • RFC 3587 IPv6 Global Unicast Address Format
  • RFC 2375 IPv6 Multicast Address Assignments
  • RFC 2464 Transmission of IPv6 over Ethernet Networks
  • RFC 2711 IPv6 Router Alert Option
  • RFC 3596 DNS support
  • RFC 3315 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) for IPv6

RFC Compliance - IPv6 Routing

  • RFC 2080 RIPng for IPv6
  • RFC 2740 OSPFv3 for IPv6
  • draft-ietf-isis-ipv6 Routing IPv6 with IS-IS
  • RFC 2545 Use of BGP-MP for IPv6
  • RFC 6106 IPv6 Router Advertisement Options for DNS Configuration
  • RFC 4659 BGP-MPLS IP Virtual Private Network (VPN) Extension for IPv6 VPN

RFC Compliance - IPv6 Multicast

  • RFC 2710 Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6
  • RFC 3810 Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2 for IPv6
  • RFC 4604 IGMPv3 & MLDv2 for SSM
  • RFC 4607 Source-Specific Multicast for IP
  • RFC 4601 PIM-SM

RFC Compliance - IPv6 Transitioning

  • RFC 2893 Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers
  • RFC 3056 Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds
  • RFC 4659 Transporting IPv6 Layer 3 VRFs across IPv4/MPLS Backbones (6VPE)
  • RFC 4798 Connecting IPv6 Islands over IPv4 MPLS Using IPv6 Provider Edge

RFC Compliance - MPLS

  • RFC 3031 MPLS Architecture
  • RFC 3032 MPLS Label Stack Encoding
  • RFC 3036 LDP Specification
  • RFC 2205 RSVP v1 Functional Specification
  • RFC 2209 RSVP v1 Message Processing Rules
  • RFC 3209 RSVP-TE
  • RFC 3270 MPLS Support of Differentiated Services
  • RFC 4090 Fast Reroute Extensions to RSVP-TE for LSP Tunnels
  • RFC 3812 MPLS TE MIB
  • RFC 4875 Extensions to RSVP-TE for P2MP TE LSPs
  • RFC 5443 LDP IGP Synchronization
  • RFC 5712 MPLS Traffic Engineering Soft Preemption

RFC Compliance - L3VPN

  • RFC 2858 Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
  • RFC 3107 Carrying Label Information in BGP-4
  • RFC 4364 BGP/MPLS IP VPNs
  • draft-ietf-idr-bgp-ext-communities BGP Extended Communities Attribute
  • RFC 4576 Using LSA Options Bit to Prevent Looping in BGP/MPLS IP VPNs (DN Bit)
  • RFC 4577 OSPF as the PE/CE Protocol in BGP/MPLS IP VPNs
  • draft-ietf-idr-route-filter Cooperative Route Filtering Capability for BGP-4
  • RFC 4382 MPLS/BGP Layer 3 VPN MIB

RFC Compliance - Layer 2 VPN and PWE3

  • RFC 4664 Framework for Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks
  • RFC 4665 Service Requirements for Layer 2 Provider - Provisioned Virtual Private Networks
  • RFC 4762 VPLS Using LDP Signaling
  • draft-ietf-pwe3-arch PWE3 Architecture
  • RFC 4447 Pseudowire Setup and Maintenance using LDP
  • RFC 4448 Encapsulation Methods for Transport of Ethernet over MPLS Networks
  • RFC 5542 Definitions of Textual Conventions for Pseudowire (PW) Management
  • RFC 5601 Pseudowire (PW) Management Information Base

MEF Certification

  • MEF 9 Certified - Abstract Test Suite for Ethernet Services at the UNI
  • MEF 14 Certified - Abstract Test Suite for Traffic Management Phase 1

Network Management

  • Brocade Network Advisor Web-based Graphical User Interface (GUI)
  • Integrated industry-standard Command Line Interface (CLI)
  • sFlow (RFC 3176)
  • Telnet
  • SNMP v1, v2c, v3
  • SNMP MIB II
  • RMON
  • Support for automated configuration management using NETCONF

Element Security Options

  • AAA
  • RADIUS
  • Secure Shell (SSH v2)
  • Secure Copy (SCP v2)
  • HTTPs
  • TACACS/TACACS+
  • Username/Password (Challenge and Response)
  • Bi-level Access Mode (Standard and EXEC Level)
  • Protection against Denial of Service attacks, such as TCP SYN or Smurf Attacks

Environmental

  • Operating Temperature: 0 °C to 40 °C (32 °F to 104 °F)
  • Relative Humidity: 5% to 90%, @40 °C (104 °F), non-condensing
  • Operating Altitude: 6,600 ft (2,012 m)
  • Storage Temperature: -25 °C to 70 °C (-13 °F to 158 °F)
  • Storage Humidity: 95% maximum relative humidity, non-condensing
  • Storage Altitude: 15,000 ft (4,500 m) maximum

Safety Agency Approvals

  • CAN/CSA-C22.2 No. 60950-1-3
  • UL 60950-1
  • IEC 60950-1
  • EN 60950-1 Safety of Information Technology Equipment
  • EN 60825-1 Safety of Laser Products - Part 1: Equipment Classification, Requirements and User's Guide
  • EN 60825-2 Safety of Laser Products - Part 2: Safety of Optical Fibre Communication Systems

Electromagnetic Emission

  • ICES-003 Electromagnetic Emission
  • FCC Class A
  • EN 55022/CISPR-22 Class A/VCCI Class A
  • AS/NZS 55022
  • EN 61000-3-2 Power Line Harmonics
  • EN 61000-3-3 Voltage Fluctuation & Flicker
  • EN 61000-6-3 Emission Standard (Supersedes: EN 50081-1)

Immunity

  • EN 61000-6-1 Generic Immunity and Susceptibility (Supersedes: EN 50082-1)
  • EN 55024 Immunity Characteristics ( Supersedes:
  • EN 61000-4-2 ESD
  • EN 61000-4-3 Radiated, radio frequency, electromagnetic field
  • EN 61000-4-4 Electrical fast transient
  • EN 61000-4-5 Surge
  • EN 61000-4-6 Conducted disturbances induced by radio-frequency fields
  • EN 61000-4-8 Power frequency magnetic field
  • EN 61000-4-11 Voltage dips and sags)

Telco NEBS/ETSI

  • Designed to meet the following specifications (formal testing under way):
  • Telcordia GR-63-CORE NEBS Requirements: Physical Protection
  • Telcordia GR-1089-CORE EMC and Electrical Safety
  • Telcordia SR-3580 Level 3
  • ETSI ETS 300-019 Physical Protection
  • Part 1-1, Class 1.1, Partly Temperature Controlled Storage Locations
  • Part 1-2, Class 2.3, Public Transportation
  • Part 1-3, Class 3.1, Temperature Controlled Locations (Operational)
  • ETSI ETS 300-386 EMI/EMC

Power and Grounding

  • ETS 300 132-1 Equipment Requirements for AC Power Equipment Derived from DC Sources
  • ETS 300 132-2 Equipment Requirements for DC Powered Equipment
  • ETS 300 253 Facility Requirements

Physical Design and Mounting

  • 19-Inch rack mount supporting racks compliant with
  • ANSI/EIA-310-D
  • ETS 300 119
  • GR-63-CORE Seismic Zone 4
  • Tabletop

Environmental Regulatory Compliance

  • EU 2002/95/EC RoHS (with lead exemption)
  • EU 2002/96/EC WEEE

Network Equipment Building Standards (NEBS)

  • GR-1089-CORE NEBS EMC and Safety
  • GR-63 CORE: NEBS Physical Protection
  • SR-3580: NEBS Criteria Levels (Level 3)

ANATEL Approval Numbers*

  • BI-RX-04 1785-09-5661
  • BI-RX-08 1786-09-5661
  • BI-RX-16 1784-09-5661
  • BI-RX-32 1787-09-5661
  • NI-XMR-32 1787-09-5661

*Note: All certificates can be found at the Anatel Web site. For regulatory purposes, the Brocade MLX-4 and NetIron XMR 4000 are identified by model number BI-RX-4; the Brocade MLX-8 and NetIron XMR 8000 are identified by model number BI-RX-8; the Brocade MLX-16 and NetIron XMR 16000 are identified by model number BI-RX-16; and the Brocade MLX-32 and NetIron XMR 32000 are identified by model number BI-RX-32.

MLX Series Resources

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Abstract:

Provides a high level overview of the 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) WAN PHY defined in the IEEE 802.3ae standard.

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This document is designed for system administrators with a working knowledge of Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching and routing.

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This guide describes the debug commands for the Brocade MLX Series and Brocade NetIron XMR.

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This guide describes the Brocade MLX Series and Brocade NetIron XMR Series Routers. It provides procedures for installing the interface modules, power supplies, and other components of the router. It also includes some basic software installation and configuration information to get the routers up and running.

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This guide describes the software features and the CLI commands used to configure the Brocade MLX Series and Brocade NetIron Family devices.

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This document contains updates to the Multi-Service IronWare 05.4.xx product manuals.

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This document details instructions for upgrading Brocade MLX series and NetIron Family products.

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This document contains the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Management Information Base (MIB) objects that are supported on devices.

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This document describes how to install RJ45 and mRJ21 cables into the cable cinch.

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Brocade and Crossbeam offer a cost-efficient network security solution that consolidates data centers, enabling scalability while meeting growing performance demands.

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Brocade and Check Point deliver a cost-effective, scalable networking and security solution with application optimization, unmatched simplicity, and industry-leading performance.

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C.R. England increases network bandwidth and eliminates single points of failure by standardizing on Brocade for a scalable, high-performance network infrastructure.

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Government Employee’s Health Association (GEHA) redesigns network with Brocade Ethernet Fabric technology, simplifying management and increasing network scalability and flexibility.

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i3D.net leverages Brocade technology to deliver an exceptional online gaming experience over high-capacity, low-latency, cloud-based networks.

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Nikhef upgrades network by deploying Brocade MLX Series routers and Brocade FCX Series switches, improving security, bandwidth, and scalability.

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Leading cloud services provider meets growing demand for increased network performance and capacity with Brocade Ethernet fabrics.

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Cloud-based multichannel transaction service company leverages Brocade solutions to build a dynamic service delivery infrastructure to allow multichannel transactions in real time while reducing operational complexity

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Metro service provider SpringNet upgrades its Brocade network infrastructure to boost capacity, improve services delivery, and generate new revenue streams

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Leading research institution relies on Brocade to meet increased bandwidth demand from multimedia, research, and mobile applications.

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Veracity Networks leverages a highly scalable and reliable network from Brocade to increase its high-value commercial customer base while meeting voice, video, and data service demands of residential customers

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Service providers are looking for new ways to produce incremental revenue by providing Carrier-Grade Ethernet services, business VPNs, and Internet connectivity. Using a Layer 2 architecture at the very edge of a metro network provides a simple, low-cost solution. One such protocol that offers a solution is MRP. This document explains the operation and benefits of MRP

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Next-generation networks require an overall architecture evolving to accommodate new technologies that support the growing numbers of users, applications, and services. IPv6 is designed to be more robust, dramatically increase the pool of global IP addresses, simplify network administration, resolve security and mobility issues, and improve Quality of Service (QoS).

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Recently, there has been an increasing interest in deploying IPTV services among telecom operators who provide broadband access services to residential subscribers. This paper details the Brocade solution for delivering IPTV service in telco networks.

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An overview of Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) and Virtual Leased Line (VLL) and Brocade solutions for deploying them.

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Advanced routers and switches from Brocade enable highly scalable designs for the eventual convergence of voice and data infrastructure that can deliver new multimedia services.

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In order to truly align the enterprise infrastructure strategy with business requirements, organizations must be free to choose the solutions that best meet their unique needs and based upon open standards, not proprietary, closed systems.

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The Brocade MLXe multiservice IP/MPLS routers, part of the Brocade One network architecture, reflect the Brocade imperative of unmatched simplicity, optimized applications, non-stop networking, and investment protection in delivering customer solutions.

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The ability to transport Ethernet over different transport technologies raises the exciting proposition of Ethernet services not only in campus or metro networks but also at a global level.