Overview - Brocade Communications Systems ICX 7450 Deployment Manual

campus-due to the use of long-distance optical links-yet, the whole system can be managed as a single
entity.

Overview

The Brocade ICX 7450, Brocade ICX 7250, and Brocade ICX 7750 are high density 1RU switches that
can run switch or router code to provide full L2 and L3 functionality. They come in five different
hardware SKUs .
The Brocade ICX 7450 switch delivers the performance, flexibility, and scalability required for
enterprise Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) edge deployment. It offers market-leading stacking density with up to
12 switches (576 1 GbE and 48 10 GbE ports) per stack and combines chassis-level performance and
reliability with the flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and "pay as you grow" scalability of a stackable
solution .
The Brocade ICX 7750 is a 1U fixed form factor 10/40 GbE Ethernet switch delivering a chassis
experience for campus LAN aggregation and core. It offers market-leading port density and chassis-
level performance, availability, and scalability. The Brocade ICX 7750 Distributed Chassis stacking
technology enables scale-out networking.
The Brocade ICX 7250 switch delivers the performance, flexibility, and scalability required for
enterprise Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) edge deployment. It offers market leading stacking density with up to
12 switches (576 1GbE and 96 10GbE ports) per stack and combines chassis level performance and
reliability with the flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and "pay as you grow" scalability of a stackable solution.
Purpose of this document
This document provides technical architecture, configuration and deployment scenarios and use cases
for the Brocade ICX 7450 stacking, Brocade ICX 7250 stacking, and the Brocade ICX 7750 Distributed
Chassis stacking.
Audience
This document will be useful for network designers, engineers, network administrators, and support
personnel.
Document history
Date
11/03/2014
03/20/2015
04/07/2015
Brocade ICX 7450, Brocade ICX 7750, and Brocade ICX 7250 Stacking Deployment Guide
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Version
1.0
2.0
3.0
Overview
Description
Initial version
ICX 7450 4x10G stacking support for
Release 08.0.30 was added
Support for the ICX 7250 was added
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