Application Overview
Matrix™ X Secure Core Router
High-Performance, Next-Generation Enterprise Routers
• Industry’s highest capacity enterprise-class Terabit switch router — Architected to 2.56 Tbps switching capacity — 640 Gbps I/O module throughput • Market-leading port density and performance — Supports 64 ports of single-stream 10-Gigabit Ethernet and 512 ports of Gigabit Ethernet in a single system • Assured network availability and continuity — No single point of failure in system or hardware architecture — Separate control and forwarding planes ensure non-stop failover — Provides 24x7 operations with “hitless software upgrade” • In–depth QoS for reliable application performance — Virtual Output Queuing provides guarantee QoS — Supports missioncritical end-user applications and highpriority, low-latency convergence applications • Key component of Secure Networks — Multiple Classes of Service combined with policy and traffic shaping mitigate DoS attacks and other threats
Extending Secure Networks to the Network Core Offering unrivalled performance, capacity and functionality, the Matrix X extends Enterasys’ security leadership to the critical aggregation point at the network core. Designed to support multiple applications and services—including converged voice/video/data—the Matrix X’ unique architecture combines groundbreaking Terabit capacities, carrier-class high availability and embedded security features to form the industry’s most powerful and secure core router. The Matrix X is an ideal solution for the backbone in a campus environment, enterprise data centers and emerging Grid computing applications. Enterprise Core Backbone Infrastructures & Campus LAN Connectivity Bandwidth-intensive applications such as streaming video, voice over IP, e-commerce, virtual training, and others have become the new tools for achieving business goals. Speeds at the desktop continually increase and greater numbers of users rely on enterprise networks to access information. As a result, enterprises require additional bandwidth at the network backbone to handle traffic from a large number of users taking advantage of these high-bandwidth applications, or to provide high-performance, low-latency access to networked resources worldwide. The burden to handle this task falls on modular, multilayer, high-performance switch routing solutions, providing aggregation from distribution and facilitating segmentation and routing of traffic between buildings, floors and/or departments.
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Key Requirements for Core Backbone • High switching capacity and port density to support multiple bandwidthintensive applications across the campus • More granular management of traffic flows to ensure reliable performance of latency-sensitive VoIP and other converged applications • Enhanced threat detection to mitigate crippling DDoS attacks and other risks • No single point of failure to ensure maximum availability and business continuity
The Matrix X provides high-density 10 GbE interfaces and supports a wide array of optics to provide long- and short-haul connectivity. Single stream wire-speed 10-Gigabit Ethernet connectivity provides a lower-latency experience to the user, enabling high-quality information to be transmitted without problems, such as large lag times or packet loss. Also, the additional available bandwidth compensates for the bursty nature of data in enterprise applications, lessening the user’s experience of uneven network access. Failure of the network core will impact far more users and services than anywhere else on the infrastructure. Matrix X provides next-generation core security features enabling assured network continuity. No single point of failure in system or hardware architecture is complemented via the distributed nature of the control and data forwarding planes. Always-on availability is enhanced still further with the unique high-availability system management assuring non-stop failovers and adding to system uptime by providing a mechanism for hitless software upgrades.
Campus A
10 Gbps
10 Gbps
10 Gbps
Campus B
Campus C
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Key Requirements for Data Center • Carrier-class throughput to support the “engine room” of corporate communications (voice, e-mail, web) • Pinpoint control to prioritize critical traffic and applications over nonessential network activity • Enhanced QoS capabilities to deliver converged applications on time and as expected • High-availability architecture to protect corporate assets from security threats, delays or outages
Enterprise Data Centers Today’s enterprises implement data centers with stringent performance and service requirements. With technology evolving at an ever-increasing rate, low-powered 10/100 servers are being replaced by high-performance Gigabit and even 10-Gigabit devices. Data centers require greater and greater server density to meet the ever-increasing needs of the organization, while at the same time, in a bid to increase returns on investment and decrease total cost of ownership, enterprises are consolidating servers in fewer co-located data centers. Key components of any data center infrastructure include high-port density (especially for Gigabit Ethernet), secure high availability ensuring a 24x7 operation, plus flexible and powerful QoS capabilities. The Matrix X has the highest line-rate Gigabit and 10-Gigabit Ethernet densities in the industry, cost-effectively addressing data center and server consolidation requirements. The data center is the heart of corporate enterprise infrastructures, and it is crucial that security and continuity are not compromised for performance. The Matrix X has the embedded intelligence to assure that critical traffic and applications are transported with preference over non-mission-critical activity when security or business events impact the total network. Additionally, the Matrix X high-availability system management framework protects and guarantees the mission-critical nature of data center applications, improving business productivity. The Matrix X’ unique QoS capabilities provide organizations with the scalability and control to react to the always-changing demands of enterprise applications and priorities. Support for over 8,000 queues per system enables the highest level of granularity in terms of shaping and prioritizing application traffic within a data center environment.
10 GbE Server Farm
Data Center
Trunked 10 GbE Connections
Content Servers
Content Servers
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Key Requirements for Grid Computing • High-performance information processing • Support for a “virtual supercomputer” interconnecting many high-performance CPUs • Multiple Gigabit Ethernet and 10-Gigabit Ethernet connections between computer systems • Superior throughput, traffic classification and core security features
Cluster and Grid Computing The last decade has seen a substantial increase in commodity computer and network performance, mainly as a result of faster hardware and more sophisticated software. Nevertheless, there are still problems in the fields of science, engineering, and business, which cannot be effectively dealt with using the current generation of supercomputers. In fact, due to their size and complexity, these problems are often very numerically and/or data intensive and consequently require a variety of heterogeneous resources that are not available on a single machine. A number of organizations have conducted experimental studies on the cooperative use of geographically distributed resources unified to act as a single powerful computer. This new approach is most commonly known as peer-to-peer or Grid computing. Many applications can benefit from the Grid infrastructure, including collaborative engineering, data exploration, high-throughput computing, and distributed supercomputing. Grid and cluster computing architectures are based around the creation of enormous “virtual supercomputers” requiring massive amounts of CPU cycles. The Matrix X provides the non-blocking, raw throughput performance and high-availability architecture required to implement this type of infrastructure. Capable of routing and switching all front-panel ports at wire-speed concurrently, the Matrix X’ switching capacity of 2.56 Tbps and 640 Gbps of I/O module throughput provides unsurpassed performance characteristics. Network continuity is once again a critical element within this type of environment. The Matrix X’ carrier-class high-availability services ensure a 24x7 operation.
400 Linux CPUs
1000Base-TX Ethernet
10GBase-SR Ethernet Enterasys Matrix X16
Enterasys Matrix N7
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