Foundry Networks Inc., a San Jose, Calif.-based company that provides end-to-end
switching and routing, today announced additions to its NetIron service
provider product portfolio. The new products are designed to reduce the cost of infrastructure
for the delivery of the new generation of broadband Internet access and
VPN services while preserving investments in
existing SONET/SDH optical systems.
The NetIron IMR 640 is a
carrier-class provider edge and core router that provides a highly scalable
solution for the delivery of broadband IP, Ethernet and MPLS servicess. The NetIron 2404 is a modular,
high-density aggregation router for the customer edge, providing
aggregation and distribution of advanced Layer 2 and Layer 3
VPN services for multiple subscribers.
Featuring a low-latency, non-blocking distributed switch architecture,
wire-speed multi-service network processors and granular traffic management
controls, the NetIron IMR 640 is designed to appeal to Metro and regional service providers, Internet service providers,
large enterprises, universities and government organizations.
The NetIron IMR
640 supports a number of applications including provider core label switch routing where 10-Gigabit Ethernet offers a
cost-effective alternative to OC-192c/STM-64 Packet over SONET/SDH (POS),
provider edge label switch routing for MPLS VPN service creation and
aggregation, dual stack IPv4/IPv6 routing for routed IP services and Ethernet
switching for Metro and regional Layer 2 networks. The NetIron IMR 640
supports its full suite of wire-speed IP and VPN servicess.
"Ethernet, VPNs and converged IP network services are the growth services
of the future. Service providers must ready their networks to deliver these
services or risk losing this profitable business to alternative providers,"
said Bobby Johnson, Foundry's Chairman and CEO, in a statement. "Our NetIron multi-service routers present
an edge-to-core solution that is a fraction of the cost of current solutions
and will help to accelerate the deployment of this vital infrastructure."
The NetIron IMR 640 router is based on Foundry's Terathon system
architecture. This fourth generation architecture features a distributed
1.28 terabits per second switch fabric delivering 40 Gbps full-duplex
throughput per line module slot, programmable network processors and a
distributed multi-processor control plane.
The system supports up to eight
line modules, 1+1 redundant management modules and N+1 load-sharing AC (or DC)
power supply modules. The chassis is one-third of a rack tall and is designed to support
96 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports and 960 Gigabit Ethernet ports in a standard
seven-foot rack delivering the highest port density in its class.
Each line
module supports 40-Gbps full-duplex wire-speed forwarding of MPLS, routed IP
and switched Ethernet services. The NetIron IMR 640 offers a full suite of
advanced broadband services including dual stack IPv4/IPv6 routing, MPLS-based
Layer 3 VPN (per RFC 2547bis), MPLS-based Layer 2 VPN - Virtual Leased Line
(VLL) and Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS), and switched Ethernet services.
To interoperate with existing SONET/SDH transport networks, a 10-GbE port
can be configured with a 10-GbE WAN PHY pluggable XENPAK module for connecting
to an OC-192c/STM-64 port on dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) optical
systems, according to the company. The WAN PHY transceiver encapsulates Ethernet frames in SONET/SDH
frames at the OC-192/STM-64 rate.
The NetIron IMR 640 is designed for the service provider environment and
supports extensive scaling in key areas including the BGP routing information
base (RIB), the number of hardware-switched MPLS LSPs and IP routes, MAC
addresses, access control lists (ACL), traffic policers and more. The system
can support 500 BGP peers and 4 million BGP routes in its routing information
base. The actual packet forwarding is performed in hardware and is controlled
by pre-populated forwarding engines contained on each line module. This
design provides for very low latency and wire-speed performance of all packets
in a flow. As many as one million IP routes and MPLS labels are supported in
hardware system-wide. To provide security and
policy control, the NetIron IMR 640 features 64,000 input and 64,000 output
ACL clauses per 10-GbE port.
To support service level agreements, the
NetIron IMR 640 implements constrained shortest path
routing criteria for its traffic engineered (TE) MPLS tunnels. These criteria
include: bandwidth parameters, include/exclude administrative group, hop
count, path cost, least/most filled path, as well as explicit routing with
loose or strict nodes and hot standby secondary tunnels. Additionally, the
NetIron IMR 640 supports 4,096 inbound and 4,096 outbound dual-rate, three
color traffic policers per 10-GbE port providing fine-grained bandwidth
control per service flow.
NetIron 2404 Aggregation Router
The NetIron 2404 aggregation router is designed for the network edge,
providing a cost-effective solution for subscriber aggregation and provider
edge applications. The NetIron 2404 is a multi-service platform that delivers
routed IP, switched Ethernet and Layer 2 VPN (VPLS and VLL) services on all
ports. It features 24 10/100 Ethernet ports and four 1-Gigabit
Ethernet dual-media (copper and fiber) ports.
An expansion slot is available
for additional subscriber-facing or network-facing interfaces. Line modules
that can be configured in this expansion slot include ATM (2- and 4-port
OC-3c), POS (2-port OC-3c/OC-12c and OC-48c), Fast Ethernet fiber (24-port
100BaseFX), 1-Gigabit Ethernet (16-port copper, 8- and 16-port fiber) and
10-Gigabit Ethernet (1- and 2-port XENPAK). The 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports can
be configured with the 10-GbE WAN PHY for connecting to SONET/SDH ports on
DWDM systems.
To protect against service outage in the event of an equipment or link
failure, the NetIron 2404 features an optional redundant AC or DC power
supply, virtual routing redundancy protocol (VRRP), Metro Ring Protocol (MRP),
rapid spanning tree protocol, 802.3ad link aggregation and hot-standby label
switched paths (LSP) for MPLS LSP failover. The NetIron 2404 also supports a
full set of IP routing and MPLS traffic engineering protocols including
IS-IS, BGP-4, RIPv2 OSPF, OSPF-TE, RSVP-TE, LDP and Constrained Shortest Path
First (CSPF).
The NetIron 2404 is designed to be used
in a variety of topologies and configurations for the delivery of switched
Ethernet, Layer 2 VPN and routed IP services to Ethernet-attached customer
edge equipment.
Pricing and Availability U.S. List Int'l List Availability
NetIron IMR 640 System,
Common Equipment, DC Power $24,995 $27,495 March, 2005
NetIron IMR 640 System,
Common Equipment, AC Power $29,995 $32,995 March, 2005
NI IMR Module: Management Processor $7,495 $8,295 March, 2005
NI IMR Module: 4-port 10-GbE, XENPAK $34,995 $38,495 March, 2005
NI IMR Module: 2-port 10-GbE, XENPAK $24,995 $27,495 May, 2005
NI IMR Module: 40-port 1-GbE, SFP $34,995 $38,495 March, 2005
NI IMR Module: 20-port 1-GbE, SFP $24,995 $27,495 May, 2005
NI IMR Module: 10-port 1-GbE, SFP $17,995 $19,795 May, 2005
NI 400/800/1500 VM2 Processor Module
(NetIron 2404, 400, 800, 1500) $14,995 $16,495 May, 2005
NetIron 2404 (4-slot chassis,
one A/C power module, VM2, 24 ports
10/100, 4 ports combo GbE) $19,995 $21,995 May, 2005
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