Service Provider
Class NetIron Routers
FOUNDRY
Networks’ NetIron routers are designed to address the exploding
bandwidth and functionality requirements encountered by Service
Providers today. The latest addition to the NetIron Router
family is the NetIron IMR 640 based on the latest Terathon-M
network processor technology for intelligent, high performance
IPv4, IPv6, and MPLS service delivery. Based on the award
winning NetIron 40G technology, both platforms feature FOUNDRY
Direct Routing (FDR) technology offering a high end, highly
scalable routing solution aimed at addressing the ever growing
needs of many Service Providers including Internet Service
Providers (ISPs), Metro Service Providers (MSPs), Internet Data
Centers, Application Service Providers (ASPs), and Multi-Media
Content Providers.
The NetIron chassis routers, with the
addition of the NetIron IMR 640, offer up to 1.28
Terabits/second, and 480 Million packets per second (Mpps) in a
single system for IPv4, IPv6, and MPLS routing as well as Layer
2 switching.
The NetIron family offers multiple form
factors to address service provider needs from edge to core
applications. In addition to the NetIron IMR 640 and the NetIron
40G, the NetIron family includes the NetIron 400 4-slot,
NetIron800 8-slot, NetIron1500 15-slot designed to eliminate
performance bottlenecks with wire-speed IP routing for edge and
distribution layer deployments.
The NetIron family is designed for
unparalleled routing capacity, scalability, control, and
functionality. Powered by FOUNDRY’s IronWare operating system,
the NetIron routers offer feature rich solutions that include
support for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), wire speed ACLs,
hardware-based multicast, MPLS, traffic engineering, Virtual
Leased Lines (VLLs), Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLSes), and
BGP/MPLS VPNs. The chassis-based routers offer interfaces
including OC-3c, OC-12c, and OC-48c Packet over SONET/SDH, OC-3
ATM, and Gigabit to 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
