Extreme Networks Summit X480 Series Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch

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The highly scalable and versatile gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch for emerging Data Center and Carrier Ethernet networks.

The Summit X480 series switch is a versatile, high-end Ethernet switch for data center, enterprise aggregation, and Carrier Ethernet deployments. Summit X480 helps optimize application performance for a variety of network deployments with its rich features and high scalability.

Summit X480 provides high density for Gigabit Ethernet in a very small 1RU form factor for up to 48 ports in one system and 384 ports in a stacked system using backward compatible SummitStack^™or high-speed SummitStack128 running at 128 gigabit per second. Summit X480 also offers 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity for up to six ports in one system and 16 ports in a stacked system with the industry standard XFP interface.

For emerging demands from data, storage, voice, and data convergence, Summit X480 provides highly scalable Layer 2/3 switching and MPLS/H-VPLS by supporting up to 512K Layer 2 MAC addresses or 512K IPv4 Longest Prefix Match routing tables. Summit X480 enables data center, enterprise and Carrier Ethernet aggregation and core backbone deployment in AC-powered and DC-powered environments.

Summit X480 simplifies network operation with ExtremeXOS modular OS, available across Extreme Networks Ethernet switches. The ExtremeXOS operating system provides high availability and simplicity with one OS everywhere in the network.

High Performance Switching and Routing

Summit X480 is available in three different port configuration options: 24-port Gigabit Ethernet and 2-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet (Summit X480-24x), 48-port copper Gigabit Ethernet (Summit X480-48t), or 48-port fiber Gigabit Ethernet (Summit X480-48x). All ports run at non-blocking, wire-speed performance. Flexible configuration offered by using optional VIM2 modules which are: 4-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Module (VIM2-10G4X), 2-port SummitStack Module (VIM2-SummitStack) and 2-port SummitStack128 Module (VIM2-SummitStack128).

High Scalability in 1RU Compact Switch

Summit X480 supports highly scalable Layer 2 or Layer 3 networks, as well as highly secure networks. For larger Layer 2 network deployments, Summit X480 can support up to 512K MAC addresses. Similarly for larger Layer 3 routing environments, Summit X480 can support core routing class scalability for up to 512K IPv4 routing LPM entries in hardware.Intelligent Switching and MPLS support

Summit X480 supports intelligent Layer 2 switching, as well as Layer 3 IPv4/IPv6 routing at a very high scale. For Carrier Ethernet network deployment, Summit X480 supports MPLS LSP based Layer 3 forwarding and Hierarchical VPLS (H-VPLS) for transparent LAN services. With H-VPLS, transparent Layer 3 networks can be extended throughout the Layer 3 network cloud by using a VPLS tunnel between the regional transparent LAN services typically built by Provider Bridging (IEEE 802.1ad) technology.