blackdiamond x8* product presentation

© 2011 Extreme Networks, Inc. All rights reserved.

BlackDiamond X8* Product Presentation

* Future availability.

© 2011 Extreme Networks, Inc. All rights reserved.2

Agenda

1. Data Center Market Trends2. Data Center Network Challenges3. Introducing BlackDiamond® X8*4. Summary



The New Enterprise… A New Mobility

Source: Katy Huberty, Ehud Gelblum, Morgan Stanley Research. Data and Estimates as of 9/10

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Desktop PCs Notebook PCs(includes Netbooks)

Smartphones

Source: 451 Group and Tier 1 Research

• Revenues from mobile apps, including from those designed for enterprise use, will experience a compound annual growth rate of 60 percent during the next four years.

• By 2014 the market is expected to reach $35 billion.• This year mobile application downloads will top 10.9 billion. That will reach 76.9 billion

over the next four years.

Inflection in 2012Smartphones > PCs

2011 2012 20130

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Cloud Services

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Source: IDC


Data Residing in the Cloud Expected to Grow

SaaS Public Cloud Private Cloud Hybrid Cloud

12%11%

27%

11%

17%16%

32%

17%

Currently In 18 Months

Q. Approximately, how much of your organization’s data presently resides in the public, private and hybrid clouds, and will in 18 months?

Source: Network World Cloud-Based Computing Research Study, November 2010

Recent Network World End-User Survey

Source: State of the Network Survey 2010. Network World. August 2010.


Data Center Trends

The New Computer• Data Center Capacity, Not Server

Capacity, is the New Metric

Consolidation• High Computational Density• Physical Location Consolidation

Green• Efficient Power Management

Could Ready/Virtualization• On Demand Provisioning• Hardware Independence /

High Availability• Location Independence


Technology Trends

Servers• Becoming faster with multi-core CPU• VM explosion, 8-16 today 64-128• Adding multiple 10G interfaces • Converged 10G adapters• VEPA enabled

Power• 2-4W per 1Gig 10-30W per 10Gig• Higher power/cooling cost• Green initiative, premium cap and trade• Need for efficient power management

Convergence• Storage, HPC move to Ethernet


Technology RequirementsConvergence

• Converged Ethernet switching fabric

Even Fewer Tiers• Much higher non-blocking 10G/40G

Lower End-to-End Latency• 10x capacity

More Virtualization Support• Physical port virtual port virtual

policy/counter

Less Power• Efficient PSUs• Power management and monitoring

Ease of Management• Same infrastructure, ExtremeXOS®,

feature consistency

All at Lower Cost


Introducing BlackDiamond X8*The Next Generation Data Center



BlackDiamond X8

Unmatched Switching Capability

• 20+ Tbps Switching Capacity• 1.28 Tbps Bandwidth per Slot• 192 x 40 GbE or 768 x 10 GbE

Superior Availability• N+1 Switching, Power &

Fan Redundancy• N+N Power GRID Redundancy

Low Latency• <3 µsec

Compact Physical Size• 1/3 Rack

BlackDiamond® X8*

14.5 RU



BlackDiamond X8

Unmatched Virtualization Support

• 128K Virtual Machines• VPP• Virtual Machine Lifecycle

Management

Zero-Touch Configuration

Storage Convergence• NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, FCoE

Sustainability Metrics• 5W per 10 GbE port• Front-to-back Cooling (FB)• Intelligent Power Management• Variable Fan Speed

BlackDiamond® X8*

14.5 RU



Summit® X670* BlackDiamond® 8800

BlackDiamond X8*

Top-of-Rack1G/10G Access10G/40G Uplinks

End-of-Row/Aggregation1G/10G Access10G/40G Uplinks

End-of-Row/Aggregation10G Access/Aggregation40G Aggregation

Powered end-to-end by ExtremeXOS® single modular management infrastructure

4x40G Uplink

6x40G Modules

24x40G Modules

ExtremeXOS®

Data Center Bridging M-LAG Direct Attach™ / VEPA XNV™ OpenFlow*


40 Gigabit Ethernet and Data Center Services


With Intelligence Driven by SoftwareExtremeXOS®

Availability and Intelligence• High availability with hardened operating system and protocols

• Intelligence to automate network operations

• Proven track record and 10+ years experience in merchant silicon design

• Ideal for Data Center networking where servers/apps dynamically provisioned

Moving from a Static Network to a Dynamic DC Network

Static Dynamic

Traffic provisioning/monitoring based on:• Server IP Address• TCP/UDP Port Information• Layer 4 QoS

Manual Configuration

Traffic provisioning/monitoring based on:• VM or User Identity• Layer 7 Application Info• Layer 7 QoS

Automated Configuration


BlackDiamond X8* Relative PositioningA purpose-built data center chassis with high density, line rate 10/40 GbE for

virtualized data centers and high-performance compute cluster

8900-xl series modules 8900 series modules BlackDiamond X8Application Metro/Core DC Core/Access DC Core/Access40 GbE N/A 48-port, 16-port WS 192-port WS10 GbE 64-port WS 196-port, 68-port WS 768-port WS1 GbE 384-port WS 784-port, 656-port WS 384-port WS (with SFP)L2 Scale Up to 512K Up to 128K 128KL3 Scale Up to 512K Up to 16K 16KMPLS Yes on 1/10 GbE Yes on 40 GbE Yes

Data Center Core and Access, High-scale Switching

Core/Metro/MBHHigh-scale Routing

BlackDiamond® 8800 with 8900-xl series

modules

BlackDiamond 8800 with 8900 series

modules

BlackDiamond X8



BlackDiamond X8* Chassis ArchitecturePhysical Size

• 19-inch rack size, 14.5RU, 30” depth• 8 I/O slots – Horizontal• 2 MM slots - Horizontal• 4 Fabric slots – Rear Vertical• 5 Fan trays – Rear Vertical • 8 PSU slots

Performance• 20+ Tbps switching capacity• 1.28 Tbps bandwidth per slot• 192 x 40 GbE or 768 x 10 GbE

Availability• 3+1 switching fabric, sustaining

24x40 GbE wire-speed with 960 Gbps/slot under 1 fabric failure

• Dual redundant management module• 4+1 fan-tray w/variable fan speed control• N+1 and N+N power redundancy

BlackDiamond® X8

14.5 RU

30”

17.25”* Future availability.


BlackDiamond® X8* Chassis

8 I/O Module Slots(Horizontal)

8 PSU Slots

Dual Management Module Slots

5 Fan Tray Slots(Vertical)

8 AC Power Input Sockets

4 Fabric Module Slots

Front View

Rear ViewWith Fan Trays

Rear View4 Fan Trays Removed



High-Level Features and Scalability


Features Specifications

Maximum Ports Up to 192 40 GbE ports -or- up to 768 10 GbE ports

Layer 2/3/4 Throughput Up to 11.4 Billion Packets per second with 20.48 Terabit per second switching capacity, 1.28 Terabit per second per slot capacity

Latency Less than 3 micro second latency for L2 and L3 switching, port to port

Management Port One 10/100/1000BASE-T RJ-45 port for out-of-band management

Console port (1) RS-232 RJ45 console port

Power Supply N+1 redundancy and N+N grid redundancy for AC and DC, ~5 watts per 10 GbE port

Fan/Cooling Five removable and hot-swappable fan trays

Chassis Dimension 17.32” (W) x 25.4” (H) x 30.0” (D)

Layer 2 Switching IEEE 802.D, IEEE 802.1W, IEEE 802.1S, EAPSv2, ESRP

IPv4/v6 Routing Static, RIPv1, RIPv2, OSPFv2, OSPFv3, IS-IS, BGP4, BGP4+

VLANs Up to 4,094 VLANs with Port, 802.1Q tag, Protocol, MAC-based VLAN

IP Multicast Routing PIM-DM, PIM-SM, PIM-SSM, Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)

ACL Wire-speed ingress/egress ACL support

QoSIngress metering per ACL8 egress queues per port, 802.1p, Diffserv, ACL based, Strict Priority and WFQ with min/max bandwidth control

DCB Support Priority Flow Control (PFC), Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS), Data Center Bridging eXchange (DCBX)


BlackDiamond® X8* ModulesModules (Front) Description

Management Module

48-port 10 GbE SFP+ Module

24-port 40 GbE QSFP+ Module

12-port 40 GbE QSFP+ Module

Modules (Rear) Description

1.28 Tbps Fabric Module

640 Gbps Fabric Module

Fan Tray



BlackDiamond® X Series* Optics SupportSFP/SFP+ Transceivers 48-port 10 GbE module

1000BASE-SX SFP Yes

1000BASE-LX SFP Yes

1000BASE-ZX SFP Yes

1000BASE-LX100 SFP Yes

10/100/1000BASE-T SFP Yes

1000BX-D/U SFP Yes

10GBASE-SR SFP+ Yes

10GBASE-LR SFP+ Yes

10GBASE-LRM SFP+ Yes

10GBASE-ER SFP+ Yes

10GBASE-CR SFP+ 1m – 10m Up to 10 meters

QSFP+ Transceivers 24-port / 12-port 40 GbE module

QSFP+ passive copper cable Yes, up to 3 meters

QSFP+ active fiber cable Yes, up to 100 meters

40GBASE-SR4 QSFP+ optic Yes



Optimized air ventilation• Energy efficient cooling • Pure front to back, air-flow straight through

chassis • Midplane-less design efficient cooling• Separation of cold-hot aisle• Variable fan speed control for lower power

Intelligently redundant cooling control• 5 fan trays works in 4+1 mode• 6 fans per fan tray works in 5+1 mode• Automatic fabric module shutdown in case of

fan failure – I/O modules will stay up

Intelligent and Efficient Cooling System


BlackDiamond® X8* Software LicenseFeature Packs can be applied to both license levels

Advanced Edge (Base)

Core License (Option)

Includes all L2/L3 switching with STP, LAG, M-LAG, EAPS-edge-mode, XNV™, CLEAR-Flow, and RIPv1/v2/ng for IPv4/v6 OFPFv2/v3 edge mode, VRRP, PBR, PIM-SM-edge-mode, etc.

BGP4/BGP4+, IS-IS for IPv4/v6, OSPFv2/v3-full, MSDP, PIM-DM/SM/SSM, EAPS-full-mode, etc.

Direct Attach™Feature Pack

(Direct Attach & VEPA)

MPLS Feature Pack

(MPLS, VPLS, H-VPLS)



BlackDiamond X8* ApplicationThe Next Generation Data Center



Extreme Networks® Open Fabric – 40G Standards Based

Up to 4,608 10 GbE Servers

Up to 9,00010 GbE Servers

BlackDiamond® X8*

Summit® X670*

<5 µsec Latency

ExtremeXOS®




Standard-Based Scalability

Powered by ExtremeXOS® Single Modular OS

Network in a (pair of) Boxes


Up to 4,500 10 GbE Connection

Up to 9,00010 GbE Connection

Up to 76810 GbE Connection

Data Center Scale


ToR and EoR architecture

QSFP+ B

reakout cable

QSFP+ B

reakout cable

QSFP+ Breakout cable

40GBASE-SR4 QSFP+ optics

40GBASE-SR4

QSFP+

40GbE port

MTP

Up to 100-meter

10GBASE-SR compatibleLC connector


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Extreme Networks® Data Center Network in a Box

• Single Tier Physical and Logical Network

• Supports Up to 768 10 GbE Servers in a Single Switch

• Supports 128,000 Virtual Machines in a Single Switch

• Heterogeneous Hypervisor Integration

• M-LAG Support for “Multi-path” Capability

• VEPA Support – Moving Switching Back to the Network

• Data Center Bridging for data and storage integration

• XNV (ExtremeXOS® Network Virtualization) for VM Mobility Management

BlackDiamond® X8* – Data Center in a Box

<3 µsec Latency

ExtremeXOS®




BlackDiamond X8* ArchitectureThe Next Generation Data Center



High-Level Architecture

Highly Scalable Data Plane• 20.48 Terabit switching capacity• 1.28 Terabit per slot, 960 Gigabit per slot with 3+1 config• 768-port wire speed 10 GbE, 192-port wire speed 40 GbE• Midplane-less, high-performance mating system

High-Performance Control Plane• Dual Core, 2GHz Intel i7 main processor• High-speed control plane, multi-gigabit path to all I/O

Fully Redundant Design• Dual management module with hitless failover• 3+1 fabric redundancy to sustain 960 Gbps (1.92 Tbps bidirectional)

capacity per slot under one fabric failure• N+1 and N+1 power grid redundancy


Direct Connect Data Path for Ultimate PerformanceTrue Future-Proof Chassis Architecture: No Mid-Data Plane Design


BlackDiamond X8* SummaryThe Next Generation Data Center



BlackDiamond® X* Summary

Industry’s highest-density 40 GbE and 10 GbE switch• For enterprise core and cloud-based data centers

192 wire speed 40 Gigabit Ethernet or 768 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports in one third of a rack

• 576 40 Gigabit Ethernet or 2,304 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports per rack

More than 20 terabit switching capacity with bidirectional 1.28 terabit per second switching bandwidth per slot

• With N+1 lossless switching fabric design

Lowest power consumption at 5 watts per 10 Gigabit Ethernet • With pure front-to-back data center optimized cooling and high efficiency,

digital power supplies

All powered by ExtremeXOS® modular operating system• For high availability and intelligent/automated data center networking



Product Roadmap

This product roadmap represents Extreme Networks® current product direction. All product releases will be on a when-and-if available basis.

Actual feature development and timing of releases will be at the sole discretion of Extreme Networks. Not all features are supported on all platforms.

Presentation of the product roadmap does not create a commitment by Extreme Networks to deliver a specific feature.

Contents of this roadmap are subject to change without notice.

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