Extreme Networks BlackDiamond X8

BlackDiamond X8 is the network switch of DPC.

BlackDiamond X8

BlackDiamond X8

Occupies a third of a rack of DPC. The general capacity of the switching structure exceeds 20 Tbit / with (1.28 Tbit / with on each slot). About 768 ports of 10 Gbit by Ethernet and 192 ports of 40 Gbit Ethernet are supported. All ports work at the speed of a data transmission medium.

The delay at data transmission between ports does not exceed 3 microsec. The switch consumes 5 watts on one port 10G and supports 128 thousand virtual machines.

2014: Module BlackDiamond X8 of 100 Gbps

On April 8, 2014 Extreme Networks announced the output of the new module for the BlackDiamond X8 switch with support of 100 Gbps.

Description

Capacity in 2.56 Tbit / with on one module in the chassis of the BlackDIamond X8 switch allows not blocked switching on all four ports of the module of 100 Gbps. The high density of ports allows to reduce total ownership cost significantly.

Support of distances from 100 m to 10 km using optical SR10 or LR4 transceivers in CFP2 form factor; in the future, with the advent of optical ER4 transceivers, work at distance to 40 km is possible.

Advantages

• The high density of ports is 40 GbE and 10 GbE
• Convergent Ethernet factory with a full support of Data Center Bridging
• Supports 192 ports 40 GbE or 768 10 GbE of ports, occupies a third of a telecommunication rack;
• Performance of switching factory is more than 20 Tbps, with a duplex performance of 1.28 Tbps on the slot, fault tolerance of factory on scheme N+1
• Switching delay between ports of 2.3 microseconds
• Electricity consumption of 5.6 watts on port 10 Gigabit Ethernet
• 128.000 virtual machines (VMs), using the standard VEPA mode