IP/Ethernet - Service Provider

With over 10 years of experience building high-end networking equipment, and over 300 service provider customers worldwide, Brocade offers a comprehensive range of high-performance, cost-effective service provider products. From the edge to the core, Brocade routers and switches enable the creation of highly efficient, resilient, and high-capacity networks leveraging IPv4 and IPv6 routing, Metro Ethernet, MPLS, and MPLS VPN technologies.

Internet Routing Core
 
Brocade NetIron XMR Series
The Brocade NetIron XMR Series of Internet backbone routers provides unparalleled performance (up to 2 billion PPS) in a multi-terabit architecture. These routers offer highly scalable IPv4/IPv6 routing, fast BGP convergence, and advanced MPLS capabilities such as MPLS VPNs. They provide industry-leading wire-speed 10 GbE and POS port density, and are ideal for Internet backbones and service provider cores.
Provider Edge & Aggregation

Metro Access & Aggregation
 
Brocade NetIron CES 2000 Series
The Brocade NetIron CES 2000 Series of switches provides IP routing and advanced Carrier Ethernet capabilities, including Provider Backbone Bridging (PBB), in a compact form factor. Based upon the feature-rich Multi-Service IronWare software used on NetIron MLX routers, these 10 GbE-capable 1U switches offer deep buffers and are ideal for delivering Carrier Ethernet services at the network edge and for data center top-of-rack server access.

Power Edge & Aggregation 

Brocade NetIron CER 2000 Series
The Brocade NetIron CER 2000 Series is a family of compact 1U routers that are purpose-built for high-performance Ethernet edge routing and MPLS applications. These fixed-form routers can store a complete Internet table and support advanced MPLS features such as Traffic Engineering and VPLS. They are ideal for supporting a wide range of applications in Metro Ethernet, data center and campus networks.

Brocade NetIron MLX Series - Service Provider
The Brocade NetIron MLX Series of advanced routers provides industry-leading 10 GbE and 1 GbE port density, wire-speed performance, and a rich set of IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, VPLS, Multi-VRF, and Carrier Ethernet capabilities. These routers address the diverse needs of environments such as metro networks, transit/wholesale providers, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), hosting/co-location providers, and Internet Exchange Points (IXPs).