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Brocade FastIron SX Series

The Brocade FastIron SX Series of switches provides an industry-leading price/performance campus aggregation and core solution that offers a scalable, secure, low-latency, and fault-tolerant IP services infrastructure for 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) enterprise deployments. Organizations can leverage a high-performance, non-blocking architecture and an end-to-end high-availability design with redundant management modules, fans, load-sharing switch fabrics, and power supplies.

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Feature FastIron SX 800 FastIron SX 1600
Interface Slots 8 16
Backplane Switching Capacity 600 Gbps 1080 Gbps
Data Switching Capacity 464 Gbps 848 Gbps
Packet Forwarding Capacity 348 Mpps 636 Gbps
Management Redundancy Yes Yes
Switch Fabric Redundancy1 1+1 1+1
Management Processor 667 MHz 667 MHz
Memory Options 512 MB 512 MB
Height 10.4 in.
(6RU)		 24.5 in.
(14RU)
Maximum Port Density per Unit
100BaseFX 192 384
1000BaseT, 10/100/1000 Mbps (RJ-45)2 192 384
IEEE 802.3af Class 3 10/100/1000 Mbps 192 384
IEEE 802.3af Class 3 10/100/1000 Mbps with N+1 PoE Power Redundancy3 140 384
IEEE 802.3at 10/100/1000 Mbps 162 324
IEEE 802.3at 10/100/1000 Mbps with N+1 PoE Power Redundancy 81 244
1000BaseX Ports (SFP) 192 384
10GBaseX Ports (SFP+) 64 128
10GBaseX Ports (XFP) 20 36
Power Supply Redundancy
System Power N+1 N+2
PoE Power N+1 N+3
Power Supply Options AC/DC AC/DC

1 The two switch fabric modules in the FastIron SX 800 and FastIron SX 1600 operate in a load-sharing fashion. Upon failure of one of the switch modules, some system capacity will be lost. In this event, some traffic flows may experience reduced capacity through the remaining operational switch fabric during periods of high traffic loading.

2 FastIron SX-FI424C and SX-FI624C 1000BaseT modules are field-upgradable to PoE with a PoE daughter card.

3 Computation is based on the 2500 W, 220 VAC PoE power supply.

Brocade FastIron SX Series Resources

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Brocade FastIron® SX Series switches support continuous uptime in campus core/aggregation and campus edge networks through hitless failover and hitless in-service software upgrades—High Availability (HA) technologies that address the demand for increased network availability by reducing device downtime.

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This guide provides configuration information for features for FCX, FSX, FWS, FESX, and ICX 6610 devices running software release 07.3.00.

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This guide provides hardware installation procedures for the FastIron SX 800 (FSX 800) and FastIron SX 1600 (FSX 1600).

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This guide describes how to configure and manage the Brocade FastIron SX, FCX, and ICX 6610 switches using the Web management interface. Screen displays and step-by-step procedures are included.

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This document contains the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Management Information Base (MIB) objects that are supported on devices (except for EdgeIron, AccessIron, and IronPoint).

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West Carolina Tel expands services and increases revenue by delivering premium IPTV service and improves with Brocade and Microsoft solutions.

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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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Private school adds robust, high-performance Brocade IP network to support bandwidth-intensive multimedia educational applications, Voice over IP, and wireless network

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Using the intelligent PoE/PoE+ capabilities of the Brocade FastIron family can ensure last-minute power to critical devices while saving operating costs.

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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.