Brocade Communications Systems 4000 Hoja De Datos

Security is an increasing concern for today’s 
operators, and the Brocade NetIron XMR 
routers offer a powerful set of security 
mechanisms that allow operators to enhance 
both infrastructure security and subscriber 
security. The NetIron XMR routers feature 
highly scalable inbound and outbound 
ACLs, which allow operators to implement 
IPv4, IPv6, and Layer 2 security policies. 
These policies can be applied permanently 
or on demand without impacting normal 
operations. Receive ACLs further harden 
platform and infrastructure security, allowing 
operators to implement strict policies for 
controlling management traffic and control
traffic. To counter IP address spoofing used in
many forms of DoS attacks, the NetIron XMR 
routers offer hardware-based wire-speed 
Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF) for 
both edge applications (strict mode), and 
backbone applications (loose mode). uRPF 
allows the routers to check the packet’s 
source IP address against the routing table 
to ensure that the packet came from a valid, 
and expected, source network.

Using the Brocade NetIron XMR routers, 
operators can combine the benefits of
SONET/SDH long haul transport and the 
abundance of cost-effective capacity of 
Carrier Ethernet in many POPs. The routers 
offer a portfolio of native POS interfaces 
with speeds ranging from OC-12 (STM-4) 
to OC-192 (STM-64), allowing for native 
connectivity to SONET/SDH optical transport 
equipment or to existing POS routers with 
distances up to 80 km. Carrier Ethernet 
interfaces offer distances up to 80 km for 10-
GbE, and up to 150 km for GbE. In addition, 
the routers offer operators cost-effective 
10-GbE transport over OC-192 (STM-64) links 
using IEEE standard 10-GbE WAN PHY.

KEY FEATURES
Service provider-grade IPv4/IPv6/MPLS multi-service backbone routers
4-, 8-, 16-, and 32-slot systems for maximum deployment versatility
Terabit-scale architecture designed for massive 10-GbE and OC-192 scalability
Performance of competitor multi-chassis routers in a fraction of the rack space:

• Up to 2 billion pps routing performance with non-blocking  3.2 Tbps data capacity

Industry-leading port capacity for a single chassis router:

• 128 10 Gigabit Ethernet/640 Gigabit Ethernet ports
• 64 OC-192/256 OC-48 ports

Wire-speed dual stack IPv4/IPv6 routing
Wire-speed edge (PE) and core (P) Label Switching Routers
Industry-leading performance for MPLS services providing concurrent IP over 

MPLS, Virtual Leased Lines (VLLs), Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLSes), and 

BGP/MPLS VPNs at wire speed
High-performance, robust routing via Brocade Direct Routing (FDR) for complete 

programming of the Forwarding Information Base (FIB) in hardware
Full suite of unicast and multicast IPv4 and IPv6 routing protocols:

• Supported IPv4 protocols include RIP, OSPF, BGP-4, IS-IS, PIM-DM, PIM-SM/SSM, IGMP, 

BGP-MP for multicast, and MSDP

• Supported IPv6 protocols include RIPng, OSPFv3, IS-IS for IPv6, BGP-MP for IPv6 

(BGP4+), PIM-SM/SSM, and MLD

Comprehensive MPLS signaling and path calculation algorithms for both traffic

engineered and non-traffic engineered applications:

• OSPF-TE, IS-IS-TE, RSVP-TE, CSPF
•  LDP

Powerful Multi-VRF Routing supports virtual routing applications over  

non-MPLS backbones
Industry-leading scalability up to:*

• 10 million BGP routes
• 1 million IPv4 routes in hardware (FIB)
• 240,000 IPv6 routes in hardware (FIB)
• 2000 BGP peers per system
• 2,000 BGP/MPLS VPNs and up to 1 million VPN routes
• 32,000 VLLs per system
• 16,000 VPLSes and up to 1 million VPLS MAC addresses
• 4,094 VLANs and up to 2 million MAC addresses8-path Equal Cost Multipath (ECMP)

 

Superior high-availability design:

• Redundant management modules
• Redundant switch fabrics
• Redundant power supplies and cooling system
• Hitless Layer 3 and Layer 2 failover with OSPF and
• BGP graceful restart
• Hitless (in-service) software upgrades leveraging graceful restart