Description

• Performance and scalability

  Today's business and networking applications continue to consume more bandwidth. A future-ready network needs to scale to support the growing and evolving demands of these environments. Enterprises will benefit from the systems' wire-speed switching architecture and its ability to support four RJ-45 or SFP Gigabit Ethernet Combo ports. The product features advanced QoS capabilities including low-latency switching, eight priority queues, ingress and egress rate limiting, weighted Round Robin (WRR), Strict Priority (SP), and a mix of SP and WRR scheduling methods.

• Ease of use: Plug and Play

  The FastIron WS series supports the IEEE 802.1AB LLDP and ANSI TIA 1057 LLDP-MED standards, enabling organizations to build open convergence, advanced multi-vendor networks. LLDP greatly simplifies and enhances network management, asset management, and network troubleshooting. For example, it enables discovery of accurate physical network topologies, including those with multiple VLANs where all subnets may not be known.

• Advanced multicast features

  FastIron WS switches support a rich set of Layer 2 multicast features that enable advanced multicast services delivery. Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) snooping for IGMP version 1, 2, and 3 is supported. Source-based multicast - a key requirement for IGMP v3 snooping - is a Layer 2 service feature. This provides improved bandwidth utilization and more secure multicast services delivery.

• Comprehensive enterprise-class edge security

  The Brocade IronWare operating software powers FastIron WS switches. This OS offers a rich set of Layer 2 switching services and Layer 3 routing functionality, an advanced security suite for network access control (NAC) and denial of service protection, and QoS. IronWare embedded security features include protection against Man-in-Middle and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks via dynamic ARP inspection, DHCP snooping, TCP SYN, and ICMP smurf attack prevention.

• Unified convergence

  IronWare advanced QoS controls include honoring, prioritizing, classifying, and marking Ethernet and IP traffic, enabling the switches to honor VoIP traffic using 802.1p priority and IP Type of Service and DiffServ Codepoints (TOS/DSCP).

• Lawful intercept

  Today's heightened security environment may require traffic intercept. The U.S. Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) compliance, for example, requires businesses be able to intercept and replicate data traffic directed to a particular user, subnet, port, etc. This compliance requirement is particularly essential with networks implementing IP phones.

• Secure network access

  FastIron WS supports IronShield 360°, a unique and powerful closed loop threat mitigation solution. IronShield 360° is a system-side security solution that uses best-of-breed intrusion detection systems to inspect sFlow traffic samples for possible network attacks. In response to a detected attack, IronView network manager can apply a security policy to the compromised port. This automated threat detection and mitigation stops network attacks in real time, without human intervention.

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