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Flexible, Future-Ready Connectivity for Digital Businesses

Businesses are rapidly changing their approach to data, from how it is generated to how it is accessed, driving the need to support new devices and services. The increasing demand for data requires increasing network bandwidth, and as organizations continue to digitize and adapt to these growing IT workloads, data center and Wide Area Networks (WANs) are straining to keep pace.

These challenges stem from the prevalence of dynamic application environments, the increasing migration to cloud consumption models, the ubiquity of mobile devices, the exponential growth of 4K HD video, and the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT). Fortunately, organizations can meet this challenge while reducing costs and maximizing ROI-by leveraging a modern infrastructure solution that supports highperformance 10, 40, and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) traffic with built-in flexibility and investment protection.

Industry-Leading Module Architecture to Maximize Investment Protection

Brocade® SLX® 9850 Interface Modules deliver industry-leading port density, price, and performance for 10, 40, and 100 GbE. These modules are designed with a unique 1.5U form factor that optimizes port density and line module capabilities, and an innovative direct connection to the Brocade SLX 9850 switch fabric modules. This connection removes the need for a midplane in the system, maximizing system airflow and minimizing internal signal degradation. Combined with the Brocade SLX 9850 chassis architecture, the interface module design helps optimize port density, scale, and system performance while reducing system space, power, and cooling requirements. This extensible system architecture delivers a highly reliable, carrier-class routing platform with investment protection, enabling the Brocade SLX 9850 Router to support connectivity needs today and well into the future as bandwidth, device, and application workload requirements grow.

Each interface module features multiple leading merchant silicon-based packet processors for forwarding and an Intelbased X86 CPU for control functionality. Ultra-deep packet buffers provide HIGHLIGHTS Delivers industry-leading price and port density per blade Ensures predictable traffic behavior with ultra-deep packet buffers Maximizes investment protection with a unique 1.5U module design for higher density, routes, statistics, and policy scalability Meets diverse deployment needs with models that can support 10, 40, and 100 GbE and optimization for the data center core, spine, and superspine or MPLS 2 optimal handling of bursty traffic, enabling predictable traffic behavior for distributed application, video, wide area traffic, and more.

Ultra-High Density Data Center Core, Spine, Super-Spine, and Interconnect These modules far surpass the limitations of traditional network topologies and solutions. Such legacy infrastructure was not designed to support increasingly virtualized environments, the massive scale needed by modern data centers and interconnect providers, and the dynamic application, bandwidth, and service standards expected by customers and end users. Using the Brocade SLX 9850 and its ultra-high-density 10, 40, and 100 GbE interface modules deployed in flexible Brocade IP fabrics, organizations can easily scale and extend their data center networks to meet these requirements.