Extreme Networks announces ubiquitous accessibility of BlackDiamond X8 modular switch for information centres
Thursday, 23 Feb 2012 10:44
SYDNEY, Feb 23, 2012. Extreme Networks currently announced ubiquitous accessibility of a BlackDiamond® X8 modular Ethernet switch, featuring a latest ExtremeXOS® 15.1 release, enabling cloud scale networks with a top density, ultra-low latency and high appetite efficiency.
Extreme Networks Open Fabric design for a information centre is a breakthrough resolution that enables interoperable information centre fabrics and leverages a ExtremeXOS handling complement to support Software Defined Networking (SDN) and OpenFlow that helps revoke operational complexity compared with provisioning and device configuration.
The BlackDiamond X8 expands Extreme Networks cloud and information centre switch while delivering a lowest latency (2.3 µs), top firmness (768 10 gigabit Ethernet ports in a third of a rack) and lowest energy (5.6 watts per port) in eccentric tests conducted by a Lippis Report in Oct 2011 . The BlackDiamond X8 has also been lab-tested by 10 business globally, including Elisa Links of Finland, Microsoft and a Wellcome Sanger Trust of Cambridge, UK.
“Cloud infrastructure is pushing a large call of information centre consolidation,” pronounced Jon Oltsik, principal researcher for a Enterprise Strategy Group. “With a BlackDiamond X8, Extreme Networks is well-positioned to support this converging by an open fabric and switching architecture. The BlackDiamond X8 switch can broach low latency, high firmness and clever power-efficiency for a information centre.”
“Extreme Networks Open Fabric design resolution allows business to build a top firmness networks and conduct a largest information centres on an open platform,” pronounced Shehzad Merchant, clamp boss of record during Extreme Networks. “The BlackDiamond X8 was purpose-built to assistance revoke a complexity of virtualised networks and broach scalability for a cloud and has already delivered record violation opening formula in a 2011 Lippis Report.”
New Hardware to Support Cloud Data Centres
The BlackDiamond X8 can support 192 40-GbE ports during handle speed or 768, 10-GbE ports during handle speed. For enterprises that wish to mobilize their focus workloads and Virtual Machines (VMs) in a information centre, a BlackDiamond X8 provides unmatched 1.28 Tbps bandwidth per container or 20+ Tbps ability per switch. A singular shelve of 3 BlackDiamond X8s can reinstate from to 2 to 18 racks of other network switches, obscure energy costs adult to 50 per cent by shortening a series of inclination and pardon profitable space for some-more server and storage racks inside a information centre.
The BlackDiamond X8 also includes storage joining technologies such as Data Centre Bridging (DCB) to capacitate LAN-SAN joining for iSCSI, NFS, CIFS as good as FCoE with upheld FSB capability. Power and cooling facilities embody intelligent energy government for new ports, front-to-back cooling and non-static fan speed, permitting larger energy efficiency. Designed for high availability, a BlackDiamond X8 includes 1+1 Management; and N+1 Fabric, energy and fan; N+N Power Grid; and multi-chassis clustering regulating M-LAG.
The BlackDiamond X8 is powered by time-tested, modular ExtremeXOS® handling complement with volatile and intelligent virtualization features, The BlackDiamond X8 has a ability to switch adult to 128,000 practical machines(VMs) during handle speed, and automatically quit Virtual Port Profiles (VPPs) with XNV™ (ExtremeXOS® Network Virtualization). Automated pattern and provisioning serve minister to morality of deployment and operation.
About Extreme Networks
Extreme Networks is a marketplace personality in high opening Ethernet switching for cloud, information centre and mobile networks. Based in Santa Clara, CA, Extreme Networks has some-more than 6,000 business in some-more than 50 countries.
Extreme Networks’ distributors in Australia and New Zealand are Brightstar and Networld Systems (Distribution Central).
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