NetIron

By now you likely have heard of Brocade's MLXe series of modular switches. However, many of our customers already have MLX or XMR deployed and the idea of switching out their existing gear is about as exciting as upgrading to from the iPhone 4 to the 4S (Sorry, Steve Jobs!). Well, what some people don't know is that you can upgrade your existing MLX/XMR using the High speed switch fabric (HSF) upgrade kit.

If you don't have 3 minutes to watch Brocade's announcement, here's the gist: Brocade is BIG on the new release of their MLXe Service Provider router and for good reason. The MLXe chassis has twice the backplane throughput as the MLX/XMR (15.36Tb/s back plane, 960Gb/s per slot, with 32 x 100Gb ports or 256 10Gb/s ports at wire speed) and will support the almost unimaginable higher density 100 GbE card.