New bandwidth-intensive services, such as video on demand (VOD), IPTV, multimedia streaming and P2P applications, increase customer expectations and infrastructure requirements. Business and residential customers alike require higher levels of bandwidth, network reliability and service predictability at lower prices. Deploying infrastructure that offers hitless software upgrades and seamless growth without forklift chassis upgrades ensures minimal network downtime and investment protection.
To accommodate new services and traffic growth, Equinix, NTT-ME and True deployed the Force10 E-Series family of switch/routers to expand their network capacity. The E-Series 3-CPU architecture delivers industry-best resiliency and embedded security, providing the tools to enforce differentiable Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and prevent catastrophic failure. The E-Series delivers both switching and routing at line-rate Gigabit and 10 Gigabit throughput regardless of traffic type or enabled features. The E-Series supports packet over SONET / SDH and is 100 GbE ready, ensuring growth without network disruption.
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How The E-Series Supports Each Application
IP Transit Carriers
- Hitless Layer 2 (L2) and Layer 3 (L3) failover and software upgrades ensure support of stringent SLAs and provide service differentiation
- BGP scalability to peering levels, supporting hundreds of peers and millions of prefixes
- Deep buffering and congestion management technology ensures maximum network efficiency
- Scalable LAG up to 16 members and 255 groups and ECMP up to 16 paths with a unique 5-tuple IP hashing algorithm for even traffic distribution
- Hot-lock ACLs enforce robust security policies without leaking packets when editing
Broadband Networks
- Integrated L2 access and aggregation coupled with a robust L3 core to scale the network simplify the 'three layer' network topology
- Hitless L2 and L3 failover and software upgrades ensure support of stringent SLAs and provide service differentiation
- Scalable LAG up to 16 members and 255 groups and ECMP up to 16 paths with a unique 5-tuple IP hashing algorithm for even traffic distribution
Internet Exchanges
- Resilient 10 Gigabit Ethernet connections within and between exchange points leverage scalable link aggregation to accommodate ever increasing customer demands
- Hitless L2 and L3 failover ensures support of stringent SLAs and enables service differentiation
- Scalable LAG up to 16 members and 255 groups and ECMP up to 16 paths with a unique 5-tuple IP hashing algorithm for even traffic distribution
- Distributed sFlow implementation enables traffic sampling at 10 Gigabit rates on all ports
Colos / Internet Data Centers
- Scalable LAG up to 16 members and 255 groups and ECMP up to 16 paths with a unique 5-tuple IP hashing algorithm for even traffic distribution
- Congestion management through buffering and a line-rate, non-blocking architecture
- More than 1,200 Gigabit Ethernet ports in a single chassis reduces capital and operational costs
- High port density coupled with system resiliency leads to simpler topologies by collapsing access / aggregation / core layers
When the topology is all Ethernet
- High availability through zero packet loss hitless failover E-Series architecture
- Minimize cluster downtime through standards-based Layer-2 and Layer-3 resiliency protocols (802.1D/s/w, 802.3ad, ECMP)
- Simplify through density, all four I/O functions built around E-Series core, maximum scalability per chassis, longer product life cycles
- Lowest TCO through leveraging one technology, simplifying management, troubleshooting, sparing & training
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New bandwidth-intensive services, such as video on demand (VOD), IPTV, multimedia streaming and P2P applications, increase customer expectations and infrastructure requirements. Business and residential customers alike require higher levels of bandwidth, network reliability and service predictability at lower prices. Deploying infrastructure that offers hitless software upgrades and seamless growth without forklift chassis upgrades ensures minimal network downtime and investment protection.