Brocade ICX 6650 ICX6650-32-ADV Data Sheet
Product codes
ICX6650-32-ADV
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complete view of network capacity,
bandwidth consumption, utilization,
and overall health.
bandwidth consumption, utilization,
and overall health.
To overcome this challenge, the Brocade ICX
6650 utilizes sFlow, a unique solution that
helps simplify network management and
monitoring. By providing real-time visibility
into the network, sFlow helps organizations
effectively manage transactions flowing
throughout the network. This open
standards-based approach integrates with a
wide range of management, monitoring, and
trending utilities. For example, organizations
can use Brocade Network Advisor to
manage all Brocade data center Ethernet/IP
switches and routers, including Brocade
VDX
6650 utilizes sFlow, a unique solution that
helps simplify network management and
monitoring. By providing real-time visibility
into the network, sFlow helps organizations
effectively manage transactions flowing
throughout the network. This open
standards-based approach integrates with a
wide range of management, monitoring, and
trending utilities. For example, organizations
can use Brocade Network Advisor to
manage all Brocade data center Ethernet/IP
switches and routers, including Brocade
VDX
®
switches, Brocade ICX switches,
Brocade FCX Series switches, Brocade
ServerIron
ServerIron
®
ADX
®
Series application delivery
switches, and Brocade MLXe Core Routers.
The Brocade ICX 6650 also supports the
IEEE 802.1AB LLDP standard, enabling
organizations to build open, converged, and
advanced multivendor networks. LLDP
greatly simplifies and enhances network
management, asset management, and
network troubleshooting.
IEEE 802.1AB LLDP standard, enabling
organizations to build open, converged, and
advanced multivendor networks. LLDP
greatly simplifies and enhances network
management, asset management, and
network troubleshooting.
With the resulting insight, organizations can
quickly and accurately review overall data
center operations, identify hot spots, and
quickly diagnose and troubleshoot issues
before they develop into widespread
problems. The Brocade ICX 6650 also
provides accurate SNMP/RMON statistics
to Brocade Network Advisor, reducing the
administrative burden normally associated
with proactive network management,
design, and capacity planning.
quickly and accurately review overall data
center operations, identify hot spots, and
quickly diagnose and troubleshoot issues
before they develop into widespread
problems. The Brocade ICX 6650 also
provides accurate SNMP/RMON statistics
to Brocade Network Advisor, reducing the
administrative burden normally associated
with proactive network management,
design, and capacity planning.
PURPOSE-BUILT FEATURE SET
The Brocade ICX 6650 combines a wide
range of unique features to help
organizations overcome the most
challenging business requirements.
range of unique features to help
organizations overcome the most
challenging business requirements.
Industry-Leading Advanced Layer 2
and Layer 3 Features
To provide self-healing topologies in Layer 2
configurations, the Brocade ICX 6650
supports industry-standard Ethernet
protocols, including multiple varieties of STP
and link aggregation as well as optic-, link-,
and switch-level fault detection and
correction features. The advanced Layer 2
and Layer 3 feature set is leveraged from
Brocade FastIron switches that have been
field-proven in enterprise and data center
networks for more than a decade. With
rich Layer 3 features enabled, organizations
can utilize the Brocade ICX 6650 in
several environments.
configurations, the Brocade ICX 6650
supports industry-standard Ethernet
protocols, including multiple varieties of STP
and link aggregation as well as optic-, link-,
and switch-level fault detection and
correction features. The advanced Layer 2
and Layer 3 feature set is leveraged from
Brocade FastIron switches that have been
field-proven in enterprise and data center
networks for more than a decade. With
rich Layer 3 features enabled, organizations
can utilize the Brocade ICX 6650 in
several environments.
Data Protection through Robust
Security
Security is a critical requirement in today’s
data centers and branch offices, and the
Brocade ICX 6650 provides robust security
through a wide range of advanced features.
Organizations can use both regular
and extended Access Control Lists (ACLs)
to control access to and through data
center networks.
data centers and branch offices, and the
Brocade ICX 6650 provides robust security
through a wide range of advanced features.
Organizations can use both regular
and extended Access Control Lists (ACLs)
to control access to and through data
center networks.
Organizations can use control policies that
permit or deny traffic based on a wide
variety of identification characteristics—such
as source/destination MAC addresses,
source/destination IP addresses, TCP/UDP
ports/sockets, and well-known port
numbers—further protecting and restricting
network access. In addition, for maximum
security the Brocade ICX 6650 also
leverages 802.11x security, MAC
authentication, port MAC security, and MAC
filter enhancements.
permit or deny traffic based on a wide
variety of identification characteristics—such
as source/destination MAC addresses,
source/destination IP addresses, TCP/UDP
ports/sockets, and well-known port
numbers—further protecting and restricting
network access. In addition, for maximum
security the Brocade ICX 6650 also
leverages 802.11x security, MAC
authentication, port MAC security, and MAC
filter enhancements.
The Brocade ICX 6650 implements
hardware-based ACL, so security does not
adversely affect switching performance. In
addition, the Brocade ICX 6650 provides
hardware-based protection against
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks
(ICMP flood and TCP SYN) as well as
hardware-based ACL, so security does not
adversely affect switching performance. In
addition, the Brocade ICX 6650 provides
hardware-based protection against
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks
(ICMP flood and TCP SYN) as well as
hardware-based private VLAN attacks—with
no impact on CPU utilization. Also, BPDU
Guard and Root Guard prevent rogue
hijacking of the spanning tree root and
maintain a contention-free—and loop-free—
environment, especially during dynamic
network deployments.
no impact on CPU utilization. Also, BPDU
Guard and Root Guard prevent rogue
hijacking of the spanning tree root and
maintain a contention-free—and loop-free—
environment, especially during dynamic
network deployments.
Advanced QoS to Improve Data
Traffic Integrity
The Brocade ICX 6650 offers superior QoS
features designed to ensure high-reliability
services throughout the data center. It can
identify, mark, classify, reclassify, and
manage traffic based on specific criteria.
This enables organizations to classify
bandwidth-critical application traffic,
discriminating among various traffic flows
and enforcing bandwidth policies.
features designed to ensure high-reliability
services throughout the data center. It can
identify, mark, classify, reclassify, and
manage traffic based on specific criteria.
This enables organizations to classify
bandwidth-critical application traffic,
discriminating among various traffic flows
and enforcing bandwidth policies.
After the traffic is classified, organizations
have complete control over the method the
system uses to service the queues:
Weighted Round Robin (WRR), Strict Priority
(SP), or a mix of both. For granular control to
regulate bandwidth utilization, the Brocade
ICX 6650 can also perform ingress rate
limiting and egress rate shaping.
have complete control over the method the
system uses to service the queues:
Weighted Round Robin (WRR), Strict Priority
(SP), or a mix of both. For granular control to
regulate bandwidth utilization, the Brocade
ICX 6650 can also perform ingress rate
limiting and egress rate shaping.
Multicast-based Applications
The use of video, financial, and other
one-to-many applications requires support
for scalable multicast services. The Brocade
ICX 6650 supports IGMPv1/2/3, PIM-SM/
SSM/DM, MSDP, Anycast RP, and PIM
Snooping for optimized multicast
forwarding. In addition, the Brocade ICX
6650 provides storm-control features to
contain and intelligently switch rather than
broadcast multicast traffic.
one-to-many applications requires support
for scalable multicast services. The Brocade
ICX 6650 supports IGMPv1/2/3, PIM-SM/
SSM/DM, MSDP, Anycast RP, and PIM
Snooping for optimized multicast
forwarding. In addition, the Brocade ICX
6650 provides storm-control features to
contain and intelligently switch rather than
broadcast multicast traffic.
KEY SOLUTION AREAS
The Brocade ICX 6650 provides a high-
performance, cost-effective solution for
many types of campus and data center
environments, including 10 GbE aggregation
of campus access switches, Top-of-Rack
(ToR) server connectivity, iSCSI storage, and
HPC environments.
performance, cost-effective solution for
many types of campus and data center
environments, including 10 GbE aggregation
of campus access switches, Top-of-Rack
(ToR) server connectivity, iSCSI storage, and
HPC environments.