Product Overview
Dell router overview
Dell routers provide high-performance routing to service providers, metro topologies, and Internet
Exchange Points, offering the following benefits:
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Router applications
Dell routers are commonly deployed in the following situations:
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Hardware features
This section describes the major hardware components of Dell routers.
PowerConnect B-MLXe routers
PowerConnect B-MLXe routers are available in the following models:
PowerConnect B-MLXe Hardware Installation Guide
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10 Gbps Ethernet ports that process both inbound and outbound user packets
IPv4 routing with a very large hardware-based forwarding table and powerful hardware-based
Access Control List (ACL) and rate limiting functions
IPv6 routing including hardware-based forwarding and dual-stack support
High availability (redundancy) of the following hot-swappable critical router components:
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Management modules
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Fans
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Power supplies
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Switch fabric modules
A management (10BaseT or 100BaseTX or 1000BaseTX Ethernet) port for connectivity to your
existing management network
Increased Ternary Content Addressable Memory (TCAM) on the interface modules to process
routing protocols
Increased processor Random Access Memory (RAM) on management and interface modules
supports larger default Media Access Control (MAC) address tables and the IP route tables
Layer 2 metro networks
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Layer 3 Virtual Private Network (VPN) service provider
networks supporting multi-VRFs and RFC 2547bis
MPLS Layer 2 VPN service provider networks supporting both Virtual Private LAN Service
(VPLS) and Virtual Leased Line (VLL)
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