Enterprise Stackable Switch Delivers Premium Capabilities and Ultimate Flexibility

The Brocade ICX 7450 Switch delivers the performance, flexibility, and scalability required for enterprise Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) access deployment. It offers market-leading stacking density with up to 12 switches (576 1 GbE and 48 1/10 GbE ports) per stack and combines chassis-level performance and reliability with the flexibility, costeffectiveness, and “pay as you grow” scalability of a stackable solution. The mid-market stackable switch is one of the first in its class to offer 40 GbE uplinks, enabling enterprises to dramatically increase their network capacity while using their existing optical wire infrastructure. In addition, the Brocade ICX 7450 is the industry’s first stackable switching solution to combine the performance and flexibility of network switching with the advantages of site-to-site IPsec VPN security to ensure end-to-end data integrity without the need for dedicated encryption appliances.

Highlights:

• Offers ultimate flexibility and “pay as you grow” scalability in a modular design with three expansion slots for a choice of 1 GbE, 10 GbE, or 40 GbE uplinks, and a service module
• Supports next-generation 802.11ac Wave 2 wireless enterprise access points with 2.5 GbE ports
• Delivers market-leading stacking scalability of up to 12 switches per stack, 960 Gbps of aggregated stacking bandwidth, and long-distance stacking to enable single point management
• Provides OpenFlow support in true hybrid port mode, enabling a gradual transition to Software-Defined Networking (SDN) without disruption
• Offers Power over HDBaseT (PoH), to power video surveillance and video conferencing equipment, VDI terminals, and HD displays
• Meets compliance and data confidentiality requirements across corporate networks and cloud deployments by extending IPsec VPN to the wiring closet

The unique design of the Brocade ICX 7450 provides three modular slots, offering up to 12 1/10 GbE SFP/SFP+ ports, 12 10GBASE-T ports, or up to three 40 GbE QSFP+ ports for uplink or stacking. As a result, the Brocade ICX 7450 can easily deliver sufficient bandwidth between the edge and aggregation layers to support expanding video traffic, VDI adoption, and highspeed wireless 802.11ac deployment. Additionally, the Brocade ICX 7450 delivers high performance across all ports for flawless support of latency-sensitive applications.

The Brocade ICX 7450 is an ideal network solution for campus network 1 GbE and 2.5 GbE access or small aggregation deployment with 10 GbE or 40 GbE uplinks to the core. The Brocade ICX 7450 also makes a very suitable data center Top-of-Rack (ToR) solution, delivering a mix of 1 GbE and 10 GbE server connectivity ports with 10 GbE or 40 GbE uplinks to the data center aggregation or core.