Enterprise Stackable Switch Delivers Premium Capabilities and Ultimate Flexibility

The Brocade® ICX® 7450 Switch delivers the performance, flexibility, and scalability required for enterprise Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) access deployment. It offers market-leading stacking density with up to 12 switches (576 1 GbE and 48 1/10 GbE ports) per stack and combines chassis-level performance and reliability with the flexibility, costeffectiveness, and "pay as you grow" scalability of a stackable solution. The mid-market stackable switch is one of the first in its class to offer 40 GbE uplinks, enabling enterprises to dramatically increase their network capacity while using their existing optical wire infrastructure. In addition, the Brocade ICX 7450 is the industry's first stackable switching solution to combine the performance and flexibility of network switching with the advantages of site-to-site IPsec VPN security to ensure end-to-end data integrity without the need for dedicated encryption appliances. The unique design of the Brocade ICX 7450 provides three modular slots, offering up to 12 1/10 GbE SFP/SFP+ ports, 12 10GBASE-T ports, or up to three 40 GbE QSFP+ ports for uplink or stacking. As a result, the Brocade ICX 7450 can easily deliver sufficient bandwidth between the edge and aggregation layers to support expanding video traffic, VDI adoption, and highspeed wireless 802.11ac deployment. Additionally, the Brocade ICX 7450 delivers high performance across all ports for flawless support of latency-sensitive applications. The Brocade ICX 7450 is an ideal network solution for campus network 1 GbE and 2.5 GbE access or small aggregation deployment with 10 GbE or 40 GbE uplinks to the core. The Brocade ICX 7450 also makes a very suitable data center Top-of-Rack (ToR) solution, delivering a mix of 1 GbE and 10 GbE server connectivity ports with 10 GbE or 40 GbE uplinks to the data center aggregation or core.

Scaling Out Ports as Demand

Grows The Brocade ICX 7450 is easy to deploy, manage, and integrate into both new and existing networks. Organizations can buy only what they need today, and easily scale out as demand grows and new technologies emerge. With three modular slots, the Brocade ICX 7450 enables organizations to grow their networks when necessary. Organizations can initially deploy 1 GbE or 10 GbE uplink ports and upgrade to 40 GbE ports ondemand with a new, high-speed module. The Brocade ICX 7450 also offers a lowcost entry point. By providing the flexibility of a stackable switch, the Brocade ICX 7450 saves organizations from having to invest in a costly chassis upfront and tie up valuable capital. Instead, they can buy a single Brocade ICX 7450 Switch to get started and add new Brocade ICX 7450 Switches to the stack as their business grows.


Integrating High-Performance IPsec Service

As organizations move to a hybrid cloud architecture with geographically dispersed business partners, concerns about security breaches are increasing. Many organizations seek to better meet compliance and protect their data in transit-whether across the Internet or the enterprise network. Brocade offers an industry-first stackable switching solution that delivers encryption from the wiring closet, providing a cost-effective way to ensure data security and integrity across the premises without needing to purchase dedicated encryption appliances. The Brocade ICX 7450 switch with the integrated IPsec VPN service module consolidates network switching and encryption to provide unprecedented VPN deployment flexibility and cost savings. By initiating an IPsec tunnel from the Brocade ICX 7450 for transporting selected traffic, organizations save the time and reduce the costs from having to install and manage encryption software on individual computers or deploy purposebuilt encryption appliances. The Brocade ICX 7450 Service Module provides hardware-based acceleration for IPsec VPNs using Advanced Encryption Standards (AES). It leverages programmable hardware technology to future-proof data protection, enabling more capabilities to be added as business needs evolve.


Brocade Campus Fabric Technology: Extending Options and Scalability

Brocade Campus Fabric technology, offered for Brocade ICX 7250*, 7450, and 7750 Switches, extends network options and scalability. It integrates premium Brocade ICX 7750, midrange Brocade ICX 7450, and entry-level Brocade ICX 7250 Switches, collapsing network access, aggregation, and core layers into a single logical switch. This logical device shares network services while reducing management touch points and network hops through a single-layer design spanning the entire campus network. These powerful deployments deliver equivalent or better functionality than large, rigid modular chassis systems, but with significantly lower costs and smaller carbon footprints. Brocade ICX switches support a distributed chassis deployment model that uses standards-based optics and cabling interface connections to help ensure maximum distance between campus switches-up to 10 km-and minimum cabling costs. This gives organizations the flexibility to deliver ports wherever they are needed on campus at a fraction of the cost.