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FEATURE BIGIRON RX-4 BIGIRON RX-8 BIGIRON RX-16 BIGIRON RX-32
I/O Module Slots 4 8 16 32
Switching capacity per system
Available data capacity 400 Gbps 800 Gbps 1.60 Tbps 3.2 Tbps
Total switch capacity 960 Gbps 1.92 Tbps 3.84 Tbps 5.12 Tbps
Packet forwarding capacity 286 Mpps 571 Mpps 1,142 Mpps 2.284 Mpps
per system
Max 10-GbE ports per system 16 32 64 128
Max 1-GbE ports per system 192 384 768 1,536
Height (inches/rack units) 7"/4RU 12.25"/7RU 24.5"/14RU 57.75"/33RU
Airflow Side-to-Side Side-to-Side Front-to-Back Front-to-Back
Power supply redundancy M+N M+N M+N M+N
(M = Number of supplies needed for fully loaded system and N = 1 to M supply redundancy)
t Flexible traffic policies supported with single rate and dual-rate
traffic policing with three color marking
t End to End QoS supported with hardware based honoring and
marking and congestion management
t Network Security ensured with line rate filtering, QoS
protections and traffic monitoring
t High-capacity 80 Gbps cross-module link aggregation supports
high-bandwidth inter-switch trunking
t High-availability design features redundant and hot-pluggable
hardware, hitless Layer 2 software upgrades and graceful BGP
and OSPF restart
t Advanced non-blocking Clos fabric features adaptive self-routing
with graceful system degradation in the event of two or more
module failures
t Embedded sFlow per port supports scalable hardware-based
traffic monitoring across all switch ports without impacting
performance
t System redundancy (switch, management and power) across
all BigIron RX chassis—BigIron RX-4, BigIron RX-8,
BigIron RX-16 and BigIron RX-32
t Interchangeable half-height line modules reduce sparing costs
and provide cost-effective modular growth (i.e., invest as needed)
t Compact chassis design supports very high-density single rack
configurations—up to 192 wire-speed 10-Gigabit Ethernet and
2,304 wire-speed Gigabit Ethernet in standard 7-foot Telco rack
t Scalable hardware-based IP routing to 512,000 IPv4 routes per
line module
t Powerful suite of unicast and multicast IPv4 and IPv6
protocol support
t Robust and scalable protocols for fast service restoration in
the event of equipment failure or topology change
t Advanced virtual output queue (VoQ) design eliminates head
of line blocking and provides scalable quality of service