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Brocade NetIron XMR Series

The Brocade NetIron XMR Series of routers provides unparalleled performance in a multi-terabit architecture. The routers offer highly scalable IPv4/IPv6 routing and advanced MPLS capabilities while providing industry-leading wire-speed 100 GbE and 10 GbE density–ideal for Internet backbones and service provider cores. By enabling higher network performance and scalability with the best price/performance, the NetIron XMR helps service providers transform their businesses with high-value cloud services.

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  • Service provider-grade IPv4/IPv6/MPLS multi-service backbone routers
  • 4-, 8-, 16-, and 32-slot systems for maximum deployment versatility
  • Terabit-scale architecture designed for massive 10 Gigabit Ethernet and OC-192 scalability
  • Performance of competitor multi-chassis routers in a fraction of the rack space
    • Up to 2 billion pps routing performance with non-blocking 3.2 Tbps data capacity
  • Industry-leading port capacity for a single chassis router
    • 16 100 Gigabit Ethernet / 256 10 Gigabit Ethernet / 768 Gigabit Ethernet ports
    • 64 OC-192 / 256 OC-48 ports
  • Wire-speed dual stack IPv4/IPv6 routing
  • Wire-speed edge (PE) and core (P) Label Switching Routers
  • Industry-leading performance for MPLS services providing concurrent IP over MPLS, Virtual Leased Lines (VLLs), Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLSes), BGP/MPLS VPNs, Multi-VRF, and routing over VPLS at wire-speed
  • High-performance, robust routing via Brocade Direct Routing for complete programming of the Forwarding Information Base (FIB) in hardware
  • Full suite of unicast and multicast IPv4 and IPv6 routing protocols
    • Supported IPv4 protocols include RIP, OSPF, BGP-4, IS-IS, PIM-DM, PIM-SM/SSM, IGMP, BGP-MP for multicast, and MSDP
    • Supported IPv6 protocols include RIPng, OSPFv3, IS-IS for IPv6, BGP-MP for IPv6 (BGP4+), PIM-SSM, MLD, and IPv6 Non-Stop Routing (NSR)
  • Comprehensive MPLS signaling and path calculation algorithms for both traffic engineered and non-traffic engineered applications
    • OSPF-TE, IS-IS/TE, RSVP-TE, CSPF
    • LDP
  • Powerful Multi-VRF Routing supports virtual routing applications over non-MPLS backbones
  • Industry-leading scalability up to1
    • 10 million BGP routes and up to 500 BGP peers
    • 1 million IPv4 routes in hardware (FIB)
    • 240,000 IPv6 routes in hardware (FIB)
    • 2,000 BGP/MPLS VPNs and up to 1 million VPN routes
    • 16,000 VPLSes and up to 1 million VPLS MAC addresses
    • 4,094 VLANs and up to 2 million MAC addresses
  • Superior high-availability design
    • Redundant management modules
    • Redundant switch fabrics
    • Redundant power supplies and cooling system
    • Hitless Layer 3 and Layer 2 failover with OSPF and BGP graceful restart
    • Hitless (in-service) software upgrades leveraging graceful restart
  • Rapid link/node failure detection with advanced traffic protection
    • BFD for rapid detection of neighbor / adjacency failure
    • Brocade UDLD and IEEE LFS for fast detection of link problems
    • MPLS FRR and Hot Standby paths for traffic protection
  • Distributed, scalable, wire-speed tunneling for IPv4 over GRE, and IPv6 over IPv4
  • Industry leading 320 Gbps link aggregation capability for aggregating up to 32 10GbE/OC-192 links in provider backbones
  • Advanced QoS
  • Hierarchical Quality of Service (H-QoS) for 8×10 GbE (M and X) modules
    • Eight distinct priority levels
    • Weighted Random Early Discard (WRED) support for congestion management and precedence dropping (tunable via configuration)
    • Support for hybrid queue servicing disciplines: Strict Priority + Weighted Fair Queuing
  • State-of-the-art policy enforcement and monitoring for enforcing SLAs and implementing security policies
    • Two rate three color traffic policers
    • Traffic policer accounting
    • Layer 3 and Layer 2 ACLs
    • Granular ACL accounting
    • Hardware-based packet filtering
    • Hardware-based policy based routing (PBR)
    • Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF)
    • Receive ACLs
    • Extensive sFlow Layer 2-7 traffic monitoring for IPv4, IPv6 and MPLS services
  • Combine both Carrier Ethernet and powerful Packet over SONET/SDH
    • MEF 9 and MEF 14 certified for offering Carrier Ethernet services
    • Flexible set of POS interfaces with carrier class timing offering internal stratum 3, loop, line, and BITS timing support

Software-Defined Networking:

  • Support for OpenFlow v1.0

1 Scalability limits dependent on configured system parameters, system profile selected, and routing database complexity.

Brocade NetIron XMR Series

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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 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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A leading service provider with one of the world's largest Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) achieves global network growth while delivering quality services and protecting existing investments

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Provides a high-level overview of the 10 Gigabit Ethernet WAN PHY defined in the IEEE 802.3ah standard; also explains how the 10GE WAN PHY interacts with SONET OC-192 networks and highlights its differences and advantages when compared to OC-192c POS and 10GE LAN PHY.

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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.