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Carrier Ethernet
Service providers are rapidly adopting Carrier Ethernet services around the globe thanks to compelling capabilities such as standardized service definitions as well as improved scalability, reliability, QoS, and manageability. Brocade carrier-grade infrastructure allows providers to build highly scalable networks to deliver residential and business services, while helping them maintain price-performance leadership and investment protection in the face of increased bandwidth requirements.
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Internet Exchange Points
Brocade solutions for Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) uniquely provide industry-leading density with wire-speed performance at low latency for any packet size, consuming less power and dissipating less heat than comparable solutions. The Brocade MLX Series is a powerful solution for IXPs, which explains why the largest Internet Exchanges utilize Brocade solutions to power their rapidly expanding businesses.
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Internet Service Providers
Brocade offers a complete range of routing products for Internet Service Providers (ISPs), ranging from compact fix-form Brocade NetIron CER 2000 Series routers to high-performance Brocade MLX Series routers. Comprehensive IPv4 unicast and multicast routing protocols support many high-performance routing scenarios, and Brocade also offers the most complete IPv6 solutions to meet growing and future demands.
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Mobile Backhaul
With rising demand for mobile broadband services due to the ever-increasing proliferation of smart mobile communications devices, operators are seeing a sharp increase in bandwidth requirements. Brocade offers a mobile backhaul solution to keep pace with this demand by helping operators migrate to new packet backhaul networks that offer increased capacity at lower cost, while providing the necessary service, reliability, and quality of experience.
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Triple Play/IPTV
Video is rapidly creating new data traffic and exceeding the bandwidth that service providers are able to support. Service providers that want to offer triple-play and IPTV services need to build reliable aggregation networks that can deliver advanced services now and in the future. The Brocade MLX Series and NetIron CES 2000 Series routers are ideal for this type of environment because of their low-latency and high-port density design.
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Application Delivery Solution
The Brocade ServerIron ADX Series of carrier-grade application delivery switches enables service providers to scale network performance, differentiate service offerings, and deliver always-on application availability–without compromising on reliability. Purpose-built on a scalable, distributed architecture, the Brocade ADX Series combines advanced IPv4 and IPv6 load balancing features, an open application scripting engine, an extensible XML API, and application security to provide maximum service delivery.
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Service providers are rapidly adopting Carrier Ethernet services around the globe thanks to compelling capabilities such as standardized service definitions as well as improved scalability, reliability, QoS, and manageability. Brocade carrier-grade infrastructure allows providers to build highly scalable networks to deliver residential and business services, while helping them maintain price-performance leadership and investment protection in the face of increased bandwidth requirements.
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Internet Exchange Points
Brocade solutions for Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) uniquely provide industry-leading density with wire-speed performance at low latency for any packet size, consuming less power and dissipating less heat than comparable solutions. The Brocade MLX Series is a powerful solution for IXPs, which explains why the largest Internet Exchanges utilize Brocade solutions to power their rapidly expanding businesses.
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Internet Service Providers
Brocade offers a complete range of routing products for Internet Service Providers (ISPs), ranging from compact fix-form Brocade NetIron CER 2000 Series routers to high-performance Brocade MLX Series routers. Comprehensive IPv4 unicast and multicast routing protocols support many high-performance routing scenarios, and Brocade also offers the most complete IPv6 solutions to meet growing and future demands.
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Mobile Backhaul
With rising demand for mobile broadband services due to the ever-increasing proliferation of smart mobile communications devices, operators are seeing a sharp increase in bandwidth requirements. Brocade offers a mobile backhaul solution to keep pace with this demand by helping operators migrate to new packet backhaul networks that offer increased capacity at lower cost, while providing the necessary service, reliability, and quality of experience.
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Triple Play/IPTV
Video is rapidly creating new data traffic and exceeding the bandwidth that service providers are able to support. Service providers that want to offer triple-play and IPTV services need to build reliable aggregation networks that can deliver advanced services now and in the future. The Brocade MLX Series and NetIron CES 2000 Series routers are ideal for this type of environment because of their low-latency and high-port density design.
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Application Delivery Solution
The Brocade ServerIron ADX Series of carrier-grade application delivery switches enables service providers to scale network performance, differentiate service offerings, and deliver always-on application availability–without compromising on reliability. Purpose-built on a scalable, distributed architecture, the Brocade ADX Series combines advanced IPv4 and IPv6 load balancing features, an open application scripting engine, an extensible XML API, and application security to provide maximum service delivery.
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Brocade 6910 Ethernet Access Switch (855.5 KB)
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Brocade MLX Series Routers (1.2 MB)
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Brocade NetIron CES 2000 Series (1.3 MB)
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Brocade NetIron XMR 4000, 8000, 16000, 32000 (1002.6 KB)
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Brocade Premier And Premier-Plus Support – Service Provider (618.5 KB)
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Brocade ServerIron ADX Series 1000, 4000, and 10000 Switches (2.7 MB)
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Choosing the Best Open Standards Network Strategy (646.6 KB)
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Leveraging the Benefits of Provider Backbone Bridges (888.7 KB)
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Multi-Service IronWare Operating System overview (268.2 KB)
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Next-Generation Wireless Backhaul Solutions (224.1 KB)
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Offering Scalable Layer 2 Services with VPLS and VLL (278.3 KB)
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What is Carrier Grade Ethernet? (769.6 KB)
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Describes a joint Brocade-Occam Networks solution for lowering costs in provider networks while providing turn-key services to generate new revenue opportunities with a Brocade multiplay solution.
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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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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 Provider Backbone Bridges standard, IEEE 802.1ah, was developed to address the limitations of the Provider Bridges standard, IEEE 802.1ad, and to add additional capabilities sought by service providers.
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Many services, such as mobile Internet and mobile TV, require high bandwidth, and current backhaul infrastructures are not optimized to handle this traffic. 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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An overview of Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) and Virtual Leased Line (VLL) and Brocade solutions for deploying them.
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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.