BlackDiamond X8*
Product Presentation
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Agenda
1. Data Center Market Trends
2. Data Center Network Challenges
3. Introducing BlackDiamond® X8*
4. Summary
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The New Enterprise… A New Mobility
Inflection in 2012
Smartphones > PCs
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Cloud Services ($B)
16
500
14
400
12
Billions $
Global Unit Shipments (MM)
600
10
300
200
8
6
4
100
2
0
2009
2010E
Desktop PCs
2011E
2012E
Notebook PCs
2013E
0
Smartphones
2011
2012
2013
Cloud Services
(includes Netbooks)
Source: Katy Huberty, Ehud Gelblum, Morgan Stanley Research.
Data and Estimates as of 9/10
Source: 451 Group and Tier 1 Research
• Revenues from mobile apps, including from those designed for enterprise use, will
experience a compound annual growth rate of 60 percent during the next four years.
• By 2014 the market is expected to reach $35 billion.
• This year mobile application downloads will top 10.9 billion. That will reach 76.9 billion
over the next four years.
Source: IDC
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Data Residing in the Cloud Expected to Grow
Recent Network World End-User Survey
32%
27%
17%
12%
SaaS
11%
11%
Public Cloud
Currently
Q.
Private Cloud
Hybrid Cloud
In 18 Months
Approximately, how much of your organization’s data presently resides in the
public, private and hybrid clouds, and will in 18 months?
Source: Network World Cloud-Based Computing Research Study, November 2010
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17%
16%
Source: State of the Network Survey 2010. Network World. August 2010.
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Data Center Trends
• The New Computer
• Data Center Capacity, Not Server
Capacity, is the New Metric
• Consolidation
• High Computational Density
• Physical Location Consolidation
• Green
• Efficient Power Management
• Could Ready/Virtualization
• On Demand Provisioning
• Hardware Independence /
High Availability
• Location Independence
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Technology Trends
Servers
• Becoming faster with multi-core CPU
• VM explosion, 8-16 today  64-128
• Adding multiple 10G interfaces
• Converged 10G adapters
• VEPA enabled
Power
• 2-4W per 1Gig  10-30W per 10Gig
• Higher power/cooling cost
• Green initiative, premium cap and trade
• Need for efficient power management
Convergence
• Storage, HPC move to Ethernet
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Technology Requirements
Convergence
• Converged Ethernet switching fabric
Even Fewer Tiers
• Much higher non-blocking 10G/40G
Lower End-to-End Latency
• 10x capacity
More Virtualization Support
• Physical port  virtual port 
virtual policy/counter
Less Power
• Efficient PSUs
• Power management and monitoring
Ease of Management
• Same infrastructure, ExtremeXOS®,
feature consistency
All at Lower Cost
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The Next Generation Data Center
Introducing BlackDiamond X8*
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BlackDiamond X8
Unmatched Switching
Capability
BlackDiamond® X8*
• 20+ Tbps Switching Capacity
• 1.28 Tbps Bandwidth per Slot
• 192 x 40 GbE or 768 x 10 GbE
Superior Availability
• N+N Power GRID Redundancy
14.5 RU
• N+1 Switching, Power &
Fan Redundancy
Low Latency
• <3 µsec
Compact Physical Size
• 1/3 Rack
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BlackDiamond X8
Unmatched Virtualization
Support
BlackDiamond® X8*
• 128K Virtual Machines
• VPP
• Virtual Machine Lifecycle
Management
Zero-Touch Configuration
• NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, FCoE
14.5 RU
Storage Convergence
Sustainability Metrics
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5W per 10 GbE port
Front-to-back Cooling (FB)
Intelligent Power Management
Variable Fan Speed
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40 Gigabit Ethernet and Data Center Services
Powered end-to-end by ExtremeXOS®
single modular management infrastructure
24x40G Modules
6x40G Modules
4x40G Uplink
BlackDiamond X8*
Summit® X670*
Top-of-Rack
1G/10G Access
10G/40G Uplinks
Data Center Bridging
BlackDiamond® 8800
End-of-Row/Aggregation
1G/10G Access
10G/40G Uplinks
M-LAG
Direct Attach™ / VEPA
End-of-Row/Aggregation
10G Access/Aggregation
40G Aggregation
XNV™
OpenFlow*
ExtremeXOS®
* Future availability.
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With Intelligence Driven by Software
ExtremeXOS®
Availability and Intelligence
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High availability with hardened operating system and protocols
•
Intelligence to automate network operations
•
Proven track record and 10+ years experience in merchant silicon design
•
Ideal for Data Center networking where servers/apps dynamically provisioned
Moving from a Static Network to a Dynamic DC Network
Static
Dynamic
Traffic provisioning/monitoring
based on:
Traffic provisioning/monitoring
based on:
• Server IP Address
• VM or User Identity
• TCP/UDP Port Information
• Layer 7 Application Info
• Layer 4 QoS
• Layer 7 QoS
Manual Configuration
Automated Configuration
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BlackDiamond X8* Relative Positioning
A purpose-built data center chassis with high density, line rate 10/40 GbE for
virtualized data centers and high-performance compute cluster
Core/Metro/MBH
High-scale Routing
Data Center Core and Access,
High-scale Switching
BlackDiamond 8800
with 8900 series
modules
BlackDiamond X8
BlackDiamond® 8800
with 8900-xl series
modules
8900-xl series modules
8900 series modules
BlackDiamond X8
Application
Metro/Core
DC Core/Access
DC Core/Access
40 GbE
N/A
48-port, 16-port WS
192-port WS
10 GbE
64-port WS
196-port, 68-port WS
768-port WS
1 GbE
384-port WS
784-port, 656-port WS
384-port WS (with SFP)
L2 Scale
Up to 512K
Up to 128K
128K
L3 Scale
Up to 512K
Up to 16K
16K
MPLS
Yes on 1/10 GbE
Yes on 40 GbE
Yes
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BlackDiamond X8* Chassis Architecture
Physical Size
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19-inch rack size, 14.5RU, 30” depth
8 I/O slots – Horizontal
2 MM slots - Horizontal
4 Fabric slots – Rear Vertical
5 Fan trays – Rear Vertical
8 PSU slots
BlackDiamond® X8
30”
Performance
20+ Tbps switching capacity
1.28 Tbps bandwidth per slot
192 x 40 GbE or 768 x 10 GbE
Availability
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14.5 RU
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3+1 switching fabric, sustaining
24x40 GbE wire-speed with
960 Gbps/slot under 1 fabric failure
Dual redundant management module
4+1 fan-tray w/variable fan speed control
N+1 and N+N power redundancy
17.25”
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BlackDiamond® X8* Chassis
Front View
8 PSU Slots
Dual Management
Module Slots
8 I/O Module Slots
(Horizontal)
Rear View
With Fan Trays
Rear View
4 Fan Trays Removed
8 AC Power
Input Sockets
5 Fan Tray Slots
(Vertical)
4 Fabric
Module Slots
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High-Level Features and Scalability
Features
Specifications
Maximum Ports
Up to 192 40 GbE ports -or- up to 768 10 GbE ports
to 11.4 Billion Packets per second with 20.48 Terabit per second switching capacity, 1.28
Layer 2/3/4 Throughput Up
Terabit per second per slot capacity
Latency
Less than 3 micro second latency for L2 and L3 switching, port to port
Management Port
One 10/100/1000BASE-T RJ-45 port for out-of-band management
Console port
(1) RS-232 RJ45 console port
Power Supply
N+1 redundancy and N+N grid redundancy for AC and DC, ~5 watts per 10 GbE port
Fan/Cooling
Five removable and hot-swappable fan trays
Chassis Dimension
17.32” (W) x 25.4” (H) x 30.0” (D)
Layer 2 Switching
IEEE 802.D, IEEE 802.1W, IEEE 802.1S, EAPSv2, ESRP
IPv4/v6 Routing
Static, RIPv1, RIPv2, OSPFv2, OSPFv3, IS-IS, BGP4, BGP4+
VLANs
Up to 4,094 VLANs with Port, 802.1Q tag, Protocol, MAC-based VLAN
IP Multicast Routing
PIM-DM, PIM-SM, PIM-SSM, Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
ACL
Wire-speed ingress/egress ACL support
QoS
DCB Support
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Ingress metering per ACL
8 egress queues per port, 802.1p, Diffserv, ACL based, Strict Priority and WFQ with min/max
bandwidth control
Priority Flow Control (PFC), Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS), Data Center Bridging
eXchange (DCBX)
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BlackDiamond® X8* Modules
Modules (Front)
Description
Management Module
48-port 10 GbE SFP+ Module
24-port 40 GbE QSFP+ Module
12-port 40 GbE QSFP+ Module
Modules (Rear)
Description
1.28 Tbps Fabric Module
640 Gbps Fabric Module
Fan Tray
* Future availability.
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BlackDiamond® X Series* Optics Support
SFP/SFP+ Transceivers
48-port 10 GbE module
1000BASE-SX SFP
Yes
1000BASE-LX SFP
Yes
1000BASE-ZX SFP
Yes
1000BASE-LX100 SFP
Yes
10/100/1000BASE-T SFP
Yes
1000BX-D/U SFP
Yes
10GBASE-SR SFP+
Yes
10GBASE-LR SFP+
Yes
10GBASE-LRM SFP+
Yes
10GBASE-ER SFP+
Yes
10GBASE-CR SFP+ 1m – 10m
Up to 10 meters
QSFP+ Transceivers
24-port / 12-port 40 GbE module
QSFP+ passive copper cable
Yes, up to 3 meters
QSFP+ active fiber cable
Yes, up to 100 meters
40GBASE-SR4 QSFP+ optic
Yes
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Intelligent and Efficient Cooling System
Optimized air ventilation
• Energy efficient cooling
• Pure front to back, air-flow straight through
chassis
• Midplane-less design efficient cooling
• Separation of cold-hot aisle
• Variable fan speed control for lower power
Intelligently redundant cooling control
• 5 fan trays works in 4+1 mode
• 6 fans per fan tray works in 5+1 mode
• Automatic fabric module shutdown in case of
fan failure – I/O modules will stay up
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BlackDiamond® X8* Software License
Feature Packs can be applied to both license levels
Core License (Option)
BGP4/BGP4+, IS-IS for IPv4/v6,
OSPFv2/v3-full, MSDP, PIMDM/SM/SSM, EAPS-full-mode, etc.
Direct Attach™
Feature Pack
(Direct Attach & VEPA)
Advanced Edge (Base)
Includes all L2/L3 switching with
STP, LAG, M-LAG, EAPS-edgemode, XNV™, CLEAR-Flow, and
RIPv1/v2/ng for IPv4/v6 OFPFv2/v3
edge mode, VRRP, PBR, PIM-SMedge-mode, etc.
MPLS
Feature Pack
(MPLS, VPLS, H-VPLS)
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The Next Generation Data Center
BlackDiamond X8* Application
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Extreme Networks® Open Fabric – 40G Standards Based
Up to 4,608
10 GbE Servers
Up to 9,000
10 GbE Servers
<5 µsec
Latency
BlackDiamond® X8*
Summit® X670*
Data Center Bridging
M-LAG
Direct Attach™ / VEPA
XNV™
OpenFlow*
ExtremeXOS®
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Standard-Based Scalability
Powered by ExtremeXOS® Single Modular OS
Network in a (pair of) Boxes
Up to 768
10 GbE Connection
Up to 4,500
10 GbE Connection
Up to 9,000
10 GbE Connection
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ToR and EoR architecture
QSFP+ Breakout cable
QSFP+ Breakout cable
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QSFP+
Breakout
cable
40GBASE-SR4
QSFP+ optics
10GBASE-SR compatible
LC connector
MTP
40GBASESR4
QSFP+
40GbE
port
Up to 100-meter
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Extreme Networks® Data Center Network in a Box
BlackDiamond® X8* –
Data Center in a Box
• Single Tier Physical and
Logical Network
• Supports Up to 768 10 GbE Servers in
a Single Switch
• Supports 128,000 Virtual Machines in a
Single Switch
• Heterogeneous Hypervisor Integration
<3 µsec
Latency
• M-LAG Support for “Multi-path”
Capability
• VEPA Support – Moving Switching
Back to the Network
• Data Center Bridging for data and
storage integration
• XNV (ExtremeXOS® Network
Virtualization) for VM Mobility
Management
Data Center Bridging
M-LAG
Direct Attach™ / VEPA
XNV™
OpenFlow*
ExtremeXOS®
* Future availability.
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The Next Generation Data Center
BlackDiamond X8* Architecture
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High-Level Architecture
Highly Scalable Data Plane
• 20.48 Terabit switching capacity
• 1.28 Terabit per slot, 960 Gigabit per slot with 3+1 config
• 768-port wire speed 10 GbE, 192-port wire speed 40 GbE
• Midplane-less, high-performance mating system
High-Performance Control Plane
• Dual Core, 2GHz Intel i7 main processor
• High-speed control plane, multi-gigabit path to all I/O
Fully Redundant Design
• Dual management module with hitless failover
• 3+1 fabric redundancy to sustain 960 Gbps (1.92 Tbps bidirectional)
capacity per slot under one fabric failure
• N+1 and N+1 power grid redundancy
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Direct Connect Data Path for Ultimate Performance
True Future-Proof Chassis Architecture: No Mid-Data Plane Design
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The Next Generation Data Center
BlackDiamond X8* Summary
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BlackDiamond® X* Summary
Industry’s highest-density 40 GbE and 10 GbE switch
• For enterprise core and cloud-based data centers
192 wire speed 40 Gigabit Ethernet or 768 10 Gigabit Ethernet
ports in one third of a rack
• 576 40 Gigabit Ethernet or 2,304 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports per rack
More than 20 terabit switching capacity with bidirectional 1.28
terabit per second switching bandwidth per slot
• With N+1 lossless switching fabric design
Lowest power consumption at 5 watts per 10 Gigabit Ethernet
• With pure front-to-back data center optimized cooling and high
efficiency, digital power supplies
All powered by ExtremeXOS® modular operating system
• For high availability and intelligent/automated data center networking
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Product Roadmap
This product roadmap represents Extreme Networks® current product direction.
All product releases will be on a when-and-if available basis.
Actual feature development and timing of releases will be at the sole discretion
of Extreme Networks. Not all features are supported on all platforms.
Presentation of the product roadmap does not create a commitment by
Extreme Networks to deliver a specific feature.
Contents of this roadmap are subject to change without notice.
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