E1200 • E600 • E300 E-Series
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E-Series E1200 • E600 • E300 Best-in-Class Resiliency Massive Scalability 1,260 Gigabit Ethernet or 224 Ten Gigabit Ethernet ports per chassis Battle Tested, Full Function L2 Switching and L3 Routing •Patented multi-processor design delivers best-in-class resiliency and security Force10 Networks is the pioneer in resilient • Up to 1,260 Gigabit Ethernet ports or 224 Ten Gigabit Ethernet Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching and ports per chassis, enabling routing. The Force10 E-Series switch/routers unprecedented network provide best-in-class resiliency, unmatched scalability scalability, line-rate performance, and full L2 • Innovative Force10 ASICs and E-Series architecture deliver switching and L3 routing. Based on revolutionary non-blocking, line-rate forwarding system architecture that combines fully distributed with Access Control Lists (ACLs) hardware and modular software, the E-Series across all line cards •Fault-tolerance simplifies switch/routers ensure predictable application maintenance and maximizes performance, increase network availability, and system availability reduce operating costs. • Robust Force10 FTOS™ software delivers full functionality Layer 2 (L2) switching and Layer 3 (L3) routing for applications spanning the LAN, MAN, and WAN Scalable Performance To simplify network operation and maintenance, the E1200/E600/E300 allow hot-swap of all key components and share the same Switch Fabric Modules (SFMs) and FTOS software. In addition, the E1200 and E600 share common line cards and Route Processor Modules (RPMs). The Force10 E-Series sets a new standard E1200 for high-performance switch/routers with unmatched scalability to 1,260 Gigabit • 1.68 Tbps non-blocking switch fabric Ethernet or 224 Ten Gigabit Ethernet ports • 1/2 rack chassis (19" rack width) per chassis, consistent performance with • 1 billion packets per second ACLs on all ports, and full L2 switching and • 14 line card slots L3 routing. These groundbreaking products simplify network applications from Server/ • 1+1 redundant RPMs Cluster Consolidation, Grid Computing, • 8:1 redundant SFMs Campus backbones, next-generation Internet • 1+1 redundant DC Power Exchanges, and Metro Ethernet services. Entry Modules E600 The Force10 E-Series E1200/E600 provides 56.25 Gigabits per second per slot and the • 900 Gbps non-blocking switch fabric E300 delivers 25 Gigabits per second per slot. • 1/3 rack chassis (19" rack width) All deliver predictable line-rate performance • 500 million packets per second with any combination of features enabled, • 7 line card slots deterministic low latency and jitter, robust L2/L3 functionality, and the resiliency to • 1+1 redundant RPMs thwart Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. Built • 4:1 redundant SFMs upon the powerful and cost-effective E300 • 3+1 and 2+2 redundant AC power Force10 architecture, supplies • 400 Gbps non-blocking the E-Series sets the • 1+1 redundant DC Power switch fabric industry standard Entry Modules both for resiliency • 1/6 rack chassis and performance. (19" rack width) • 196 million packets per second • 6 line card slots • 1+1 redundant RPMs • 1:1 redundant SFMs • 3+1 and 2+2 redundant AC power supplies • 1+1 redundant DC Power Entry Modules Highest Ethernet Density Line-Rate Performance Full L2 Switching and L3 Routing The Force10 E-Series delivers unparalleled With three custom Force10 ASICs and advanced Force10 ASICs, E-Series architecture and Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet port Ternary Content Addressable Memory (TCAM) on FTOS software work in unison to give densities. The E1200/E600 support 90 Gigabit every line card, the Force10 E-Series provides robust L2 switching and L3 routing Ethernet ports or 16 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports line-rate, non-blocking forwarding performance functionality to the E-Series with the per line card slot and up to 14 and 7 line card across all ports, even with all features enabled scalability and security required for slots per chassis respectively. The E300 supports simultaneously. These features include: applications spanning the LAN, MAN, 48 Gigabit Ethernet ports or eight 10 Gigabit • Extended ACLs for packet filtering and and Internet-connected WAN. The Force10 Ethernet port per line card slot and up to six policy routing E-Series L2 and L3 features include: line card slots per chassis. • • Multi-field packet lookup and classification BGP, IS-IS, OSPF, and RIP routing protocols for QoS • Prefix-based distributed forwarding table • Packet metering and marking for rate on every line card limiting and policing • Forwarding table support for up to 512K • Congestion control using WRED and WFQ IPv4 and 32K IPv6 routes High Density Interfaces • 55 ms to 200 ms packet buffering per port Ports Per Chassis E300 E600 E1200 • VLAN Redundancy, Rapid Spanning Tree, VLAN Stacking High Density Gigabit Ethernet 288 630 1,260 Line-Rate Gigabit Ethernet 132 336 672 High Density 10 Gigabit Ethernet 48 112 224 Line-Rate 10 Gigabit Ethernet 12 28 56 Resiliency: The Force10 E-Series Architecture With the power of the E-Series architecture, the Force10 E-Series delivers breakthrough resiliency at performance levels never before realized. The Force10 E-Series architecture is the result of patented technological innovation in switch fabric, backplane, ASIC, and system control plane design. Separate System Control Plane Distributed ASIC-Based Forwarding Passive Copper Backplane The E-Series architecture includes distinct The Force10 ASICs, along with advanced The E-Series architecture’s reliable and cost-efficient data and control planes. The system control TCAMs on every line card, give absolutely backplane is the industry’s first high speed, non- plane is augmented with three processors predictable line-rate forwarding for every optical backplane to scale to 5 Tbps data rates on each Route Processor Module (RPM). packet regardless of the number, type, or in a single 1/2 rack E1200 switch/router chassis. The first processor handles Layer 2 control complexity of features enabled across the Unlike optical backplane interconnect systems or protocols, the second, Layer 3, and the chassis. Unlike low-performance, processor- active copper backplanes, the E-Series backplane third, management functions. This patented based forwarding architectures, there is no has no single point of failure and eliminates architecture allows faults to be contained “slow-path” or software-based forwarding costly electrical-optical-electrical conversions. while protecting other parts of the system. in the E-Series. The Force10 ASICs look up The resulting system simplicity afforded by the For example, it protects against spanning and act upon all information related to backplane means bulletproof reliability and tree loops and DoS attacks providing forwarding and applying policy to a packet minimum cost — available on all three platforms. unparalleled resiliency. before the entire packet is received, The massive backplane capacity of E-Series independent of table lengths, IP address chassis bought today also translates to enough Designed to meet the needs of Internet-scale prefix lengths, or packet size. This hardware bandwidth per slot (E1200 and E600) to support networks, the E-Series system control plane forwarding enables the E-Series to provide 100 GbE when that standard becomes available. supports millions of routing table entries, the deterministic low latency and jitter up to 512K IPv4 forwarding table entries, required by VoIP and streaming media Fault Tolerance and High Availability and thousands of ACLs on every line card. applications. The E-Series architecture supports redundancy, The RPM’s innovative control traffic rate availability, and serviceability features to limiting and filtering functionality empowers Non-Blocking 1.68 Tbps Switch Fabric maximize network uptime. All key systems in network administrators to suppress harmful The E-Series switch fabric provides non- the E-Series are redundant, including the RPMs, DoS attacks and prevent flooding of unwanted blocking connectivity along with advanced SFMs, and power. All memory systems are traffic onto the network. And dedicated queuing, multicast, and jumbo frame ECC/parity protected. System-wide environmental 100 Mbps switched paths from the RPMs support. The E1200/E600’s cost-effective N:1 monitoring and persistent configuration to every line card eliminate sluggish redundant switch fabric design reduces SFM synchronization enable FTOS to detect, report, forwarding table updates that could sparing costs while providing 56.25 Gigabits and correct faults with a minimum of system otherwise jeopardize network stability. per second of non-blocking bandwidth to interruption. In addition, serviceability features each line card slot. include hot-swap of all key components, cable management, and front-side access to all cabling and cards minimize mean time to repair. The Force10 E-Series Architecture The Force10 E-Series Architecture delivers line-rate performance, cost-effective scalability, and robust L2 switching and L3 routing: • Three CPU Route Processor delivers best-in-class resiliency and security • Scalable, non-blocking switch fabric enables the low latency and jitter critical for streaming media applications • High performance Force10 ASICs distribute packet forwarding, ACL processing, QoS, and buffering to every line card • Robust L2/L3 multiprocessor control plane with innovative control traffic filtering and rate limiting capabilities • Cost-effective, reliable — 100 Gigabit Ethernet ready — passive copper backplane