Brocade ICX 6650 with 40 10GbE SFP+ ports enabled. Includes two 250W AC power supplies and two fan units, exhaust airflow. Advanced S/W. No optics.

Leading-Edge Flexibility and Reliability
The Brocade ICX 6650 provides a highly flexible 10/40 GbE aggregation solution that offers the highest levels of reliability. It features 1/10 GbE for access and server connectivity and 10/40 GbE for uplink connectivity, along with Ports on Demand (PoD) licensing that allows organizations to buy only the port density they currently need and expand later through software enablement. No forklift hardware change will be needed in the future. In addition, the Brocade ICX 6650 supports redundant, hot-swappable AC or DC power supplies and fans, reversible airflow, and advanced software.

Superior ROI and Investment Protection
The Brocade ICX 6650 combines performance, availability, and scalability advantages with investment protection for existing LAN environments. It utilizes the same Brocade FastIron operating system used by other Brocade Ethernet/IP products. This helps ensure full forward and backward compatibility with the product family while simplifying software maintenance and field upgrades.

Moreover, the use of the same industry-standard Command Line Interface (CLI) eliminates the need for staff retraining. As a result, the Brocade ICX 6650 enables organizations to better leverage their current training, tools, devices, and processes.

Brocade also enables organizations to further maximize their investments by including advanced Layer 3 features and IPv6 routing.

Greener Campus and Data Centers networks with Lower TCO
As application data and storage requirements continue to rise exponentially, so does the demand for higher port density and bandwidth, along with the required amount of network devices and power consumption. Organizations seeking to reduce TCO need solutions that can provide higher scalability and density per rack unit, thereby reducing power consumption and heat dissipation.

The Brocade ICX 6650 addresses those needs with a state-of-the-art ASIC, reversible airflow, automatic fan-speed control, high-efficiency AC or DC power supplies, and power-efficient optics to ensure the most efficient use of power and cooling. For low-cost, low-latency, and low-energy-consuming (0.1 watts) cabling within and between the racks, the Brocade ICX 6650 supports SFP+ Direct Attach Copper (Twinax) cables at up to five meters. For switch-to-switch connectivity, the Brocade ICX 6650 supports low-power-consuming SFP+ and 40GBASE-SR4 QSFP+ optical transceivers. In high-port-density deployments, these features save significant operating costs.

Simplified, Standards-based Management
Deploying more switches in campus and data center infrastructures can increase overall network performance, but it also make it more challenging to have a complete view of network capacity, bandwidth consumption, utilization, and overall health.

To overcome this challenge, the Brocade ICX 6650 utilizes sFlow, a unique solution that helps simplify network management and monitoring. By providing real-time visibility into the network, sFlow helps organizations effectively manage transactions flowing throughout the network. This open standards-based approach integrates with a wide range of management, monitoring, and trending utilities. For example, organizations can use Brocade Network Advisor to manage all Brocade data center Ethernet/IP switches and routers, including Brocade VDX switches, Brocade ICX switches, Brocade FCX Series switches, Brocade ADX Series application delivery switches, and Brocade MLXe core routers.

The Brocade ICX 6650 also supports the IEEE 802.1AB LLDP standard, enabling organizations to build open, converged, and advanced multivendor networks. LLDP greatly simplifies and enhances network management, asset management, and network troubleshooting.

With the resulting visibility, organizations can quickly and accurately review overall data center operations, identify hot spots, and quickly diagnose and troubleshoot issues before they develop into widespread problems. The Brocade ICX 6650 also provides accurate SNMP/RMON statistics to Brocade Network Advisor, reducing the administrative burden normally associated with proactive network management, design, and capacity planning.

Unprecedented Feature Set in Its Class
The Brocade ICX 6650 combines a wide range of unique features to help organizations overcome the most challenging business requirements.

Industry-Leading Advanced Layer 2 and Layer 3 Features
To provide self-healing topologies in Layer 2 configurations, the Brocade ICX 6650 supports industry-standard Ethernet protocols, including multiple varieties of STP and link aggregation as well as optic-, link-, and switch-level fault detection and correction features. The advanced Layer 2 and Layer 3 feature set is leveraged from Brocade FastIron switches that have been field-proven in enterprise and data center networks for more than a decade. With rich Layer 3 features enabled, organizations can utilize the Brocade ICX 6650 in several environments.

Multicast-based Applications
The use of video, financial, and other plentiful applications requires support for scalable multicast services. The Brocade ICX 6650 supports IGMPv1/2/3, PIM-SM/SSM/DM, MSDP, Anycast RP, and PIM Snooping for optimized multicast forwarding. In addition, the Brocade ICX 6650 provides storm-control features to contain and intelligently switch, rather than broadcast, multicast traffic.

Data Protection through Robust Security
Security is a critical requirement in today?s data centers and branch offices, and the Brocade ICX 6650 provides robust security through a wide range of advanced features. Organizations can use both regular and extended Access Control Lists (ACLs) to control access to and through campus and data center networks.

Organizations can use control policies that permit or deny traffic based on a wide variety of identification characteristics?such as source/destination MAC addresses, source/destination IP addresses, TCP/UDP ports/sockets, and well-known port numbers?further protecting and restricting network access. In addition, for maximum security the Brocade ICX 6650 also leverages 802.11x security, MAC authentication, port MAC security, and MAC filter enhancements.

The Brocade ICX 6650 implements hardware-based ACL, so security does not adversely affect switching performance. In addition, the Brocade ICX 6650 provides hardware-based protection against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks (ICMP flood and TCP SYN), as well as hardware-based private VLAN attacks?with no impact on CPU utilization. Also, BPDU Guard and Root Guard prevent rogue hijacking of the spanning tree root and maintain a contention-free?and loop-free?environment, especially during dynamic network deployments.

Advanced QoS to Improve Data Traffic Integrity
The Brocade ICX 6650 offers superior QoS features designed to ensure high-reliability services throughout campus and data center networks. It can identify, mark, classify, reclassify, and manage traffic based on specific criteria. This enables organizations to classify bandwidth-critical application traffic, discriminating among various traffic flows and enforcing bandwidth policies.

After the traffic is classified, organizations have complete control over the method the system uses to service the queues: Weighted Round Robin (WRR), Strict Priority (SP), or a mix of both. For granular control to regulate bandwidth utilization, the Brocade ICX 6650 can also perform ingress rate limiting and egress rate shaping.