Extreme Networks ExtremeRouting SLX 9640 Router

Key Features and Benefits:

• Adaptable Internet-scale routing platform
  The ExtremeRouting SLX 9640 is designed to cost-effectively deliver the scale and performance needed to address the explosive growth in network bandwidth, devices, and services - today and well into the future. This flexible platform, powered by Extreme SLX-OS, provides carrier-class advanced features that leverage proven Extreme routing, MPLS, Carrier Ethernet, and VXLAN overlay technology currently deployed in the most demanding service provider, data center, and enterprise networks. And it is all delivered through space- and power-efficient forwarding hardware. The flexible architecture is designed for optimal operations, supporting diverse deployment options - such as Internet border, collapsed border routing and data center interconnect, and network packet broker aggregation deployments - that require deep buffering for lossless forwarding, advanced MPLS, Carrier Ethernet features or VXLAN network virtualization overlays, and greater bandwidth. In addition, the SLX 9640 helps address the increasing agility and analytics needs of digital organizations with innovative network automation and visibility, capabilities enabled through Extreme Workflow Composer with turnkey automation suites and the Extreme SLX Insight Architecture.
• Flexible border routing with Internet route scale, ultra-deep buffers, MPLS, and EVPN
  The SLX 9640 is the industry's most powerful compact deep buffer Internet border router, providing a costefficient solution that is purpose-built for the most demanding service provider and enterprise data centers and MAN/WAN applications. The robust system architecture - supported by SLX-OS and a versatile feature set including IPv4, IPv6, MPLS/VPLS, and OpenFlow forwarding - combines with Carrier Ethernet 2.0 and OAM capabilities to provide deployment flexibility. This enables the SLX 9640 to scale from the data center border to data center interconnect and MAN/WAN environments while supporting the route and policy scale of demanding peering and network packet broker aggregation needs. Designed with state-of-the-art network processor technology, the SLX 9640 has a switch fabric capacity of up to 900 Gbps in a 1U form factor. Advanced hardware with fine-grained QoS support enables full-duplex, highspeed performance for any mix of IPv4, IPv6, and MPLS/ VPLS services. SLX 9640 hardware supports flexible port configurations with 24 ports of dual mode 10 GbE/1 GbE and 12 ports of dual mode 100 GbE/40 GbE. In addition, each 100 GbE port can support 4 ports of 25 GbE via breakout, while each 40 GbE port can support 4 ports of 10 GbE via breakout. This approach provides financial and operational flexibility for diverse business and service deployment needs.
• Modular, virtualized operating system
  The SLX 9640 runs SLX-OS, a fully virtualized Linux-based operating system that delivers process-level resiliency and fault isolation. SLX-OS supports advanced routing, MPLS, and Carrier Ethernet 2.0 features. It is highly programmable with support for REST and NETCONF, enabling full network lifecycle automation with Extreme Workflow Composer and turnkey automation suites. In addition, SLX-OS is based on Ubuntu Linux, which offers all the advantages of open source and access to commonly used Linux tools. SLX-OS runs in a virtualized environment over a KVM hypervisor, with the operating system compartmentalized and abstracted from the underlying hardware. The core operating system functions for the SLX 9640 are hosted in the system VM. This approach provides clean failure domain isolation for the switch operating system while leveraging the x86 ecosystem - thereby removing single vendor lock-in for system tools development and delivery. In addition, it supports a guest VM, which is an open KVM environment for running third-party and customized monitoring, troubleshooting, and analytics applications.
• Extreme management center for insights, visibility and control
  The SLX family of switches and routers, including SLX 9640 can be managed by Extreme Management Center (XMC). XMC includes a suite of applications, empowering administrators to deliver a superior quality experience to end users through a single pane of glass and a common set of tools to provision, manage and troubleshoot the network. It works across wired and wireless networks, from the edge to the data center and private cloud. XMC provides a consolidated view of users, devices and applications for wired and wireless networks - from data center to edge. A granular view of users, devices and applications with an easy to understand dashboard enables efficient inventory and network topology management. XMC also provides ecosystem integration, includes off the box integrations with major enterprise data center virtual environments such as VMWare, OpenStack and Nutanix to provide VM visibility and enforce security settings.