BlackDiamond 10808 Series
Designed from the ground up for 10 Gigabit Ethernet, BlackDiamond 10808 incorporates advanced technology in the areas of security, availability and scalable performance.
BlackDiamond 10808 hardware supports a wide array of protocols. In addition, BlackDiamond 10808 incorporates programmable ASIC technology. This programmability helps ensure that the platform will support emerging protocols without costly hardware upgrades—thus offering you investment protection.
Even more importantly, BlackDiamond 10808 is designed to help meet tomorrow’s needs as well as today's. Extensibility is the key to building intelligent core networks that can adapt and respond to changing requirements over time; this is where BlackDiamond 10808 truly stands out.
Security
BlackDiamond 10808 can deliver a high level of security to Ethernet core networking. BlackDiamond 10808 complements the perimeter firewalls by protecting the "soft interior" of the network that often goes unprotected. Utilizing the industry’s most advanced CLEAR-Flow Security Rules Engine, BlackDiamond 10808 can be programmed to automatically detect and mitigate security threats. This is achieved through:
- Threat detection and response with CLEAR-Flow Security Rules Engine
- Layer 3 virtual switching
- Hardened network infrastructure
Voice-Class Availability
A high-performance network connection, whether used to connect PCs and IP telephones at the access layer or to interconnect servers in a cluster, is only useful if it is also highly available. BlackDiamond 10808 allows every active component (including the operating system) to be upgraded without taking the switch out of service. BlackDiamond 10808 also utilizes the industry-leading ExtremeXOS™ modular operating system to raise the availability of the switch.Network level resiliency protocols are also added to increase the availability of the network.
This is achieved through:
- Redundant hardware design
- Modular operating system for non-stop operation with ExtremeXOS Operating System (OS)
- High availability network using Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching (EAPS)
Scalable Performance
Offering industry-leading 10 gigabit and Gigabit Ethernet port density, BlackDiamond 10808 scales to meet the immediate requirements and anticipates future requirements of very demanding IPv4 and IPv6 environments. This is achieved through:
- System scalability with large table sizes, port capacity
- Quality of Service (QoS) and multicast performance providing application scalability
- Scalable management through extensibility
The BlackDiamond 10808 switch has ten slots, two of which provide control- and data-plane resiliency with redundant management and switching module (MSM-1/1XL). Eight I/0 slots can be used for a mix of I/O modules.
- BlackDiamond 10808 MSM-1 Mgmt Module : Switch Fabric and Management
- BlackDiamond 10808 MSM-1XL Mgmt Module : Switch Fabric and management module with higher scale operation
- BlackDiamond 10808 G60X: 60 port gigabit card Fiber
- BlackDiamond 10808 G20X: 20 Port gigabit card Fiber
- BlackDiamond 10808 G60T: 60 port gigabit card Copper
- BlackDiamond 10808 10G6X: 6 port 10 gigabit module
- BlackDiamond 10808 10G2X: 2 port 10 gigabit module
- BlackDiamond 10808 10G2H: Combination module 2 x10 Gigabit Ethernet + 20x 1 Gigabit Ethernet + 20 x1 Gigabit Ethernet
Enterprise Core
BlackDiamond 10808 provides the medium to large enterprise with an ideal core switch solution that can satisfy complete network needs. CLEAR-Flow Security Rules Engine and Layer 3 Virtual Switching capability of the BlackDiamond 10808 is critical for core security.
Enterprise Data Center
The heartbeat of any organization is in the data center. A data center is a centralized secure facility used for housing a large amount of electronic equipment, typically computers and network infrastructure. Architecturally, a next generation data center relies on virtualized pools of resources that can be combined to support a variety of applications. BlackDiamond 10808 with its VR capabilities provides another dimension to the virtualization of resources for the next-generation data center.
Metro Core and Distribution
Metro Ethernet networks are typically composed of three device types—Customer Edge, Provider Edge and Provider Aggregation. Not all networks will use all three devices. For example, an IPTV network may be deployed using only a provider aggregation switch at a provider point of presence. BlackDiamond 10808 is ideally suited for either provider aggregation or point of presence within metro Ethernet networks.
Internet Exchanges
An Internet Exchange Point (IXP) that allows different Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to exchange Internet traffic between their autonomous systems by means of mutual peering agreements. IXPs are typically used by ISPs to reduce dependency on their respective upstream providers; furthermore, they are used to increase efficiency and fault-tolerance. BlackDiamond 10808 can address the need for high-performance and fault-tolerance connectivity required for IXPs using gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet as the interconnect technology, with resiliency technologies such as EAPS.
High Performance Cluster Computing
High Performance Cluster Computing (HPCC) consists of hundreds or thousands of servers working cooperatively to solve large computational problems. With the use of relatively inexpensive and compact 1RU servers, a significant amount of processing power can be cost-effectively packed into a relatively small footprint. BlackDiamond 10808 can address the need for high-performance and cost-effective connectivity required for HPCC using gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet as the interconnect technology.
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