Brocade ICX 7450, Brocade ICX 7750, and Brocade ICX 7250
Stacking
● Preface............................................................................................................................4
● Overview......................................................................................................................... 5
● Chapter 1: ICX7450........................................................................................................ 6
● Chapter 2: ICX7750 Stack............................................................................................ 37
● Chapter 3: ICX7250 Stack............................................................................................ 57
Preface
Today's campus networks are critical for business connectivity to customers, vendors, and partners
and to support the latest enterprise applications, cloud-based services, and mobile users' access to
the network. The campus networks of today and tomorrow should be flexible, easy to manage, and
cost-effective. The Effortless Network™ is the Brocade vision to meet these objectives; the Brocade
HyperEdge Architecture is the cornerstone for delivering on that vision.
Three key design principles drive the development of the Brocade HyperEdge Architecture for
modernizing and simplifying the network:
1. Consolidated management: Reduces unnecessary network layers to create large HyperEdge
management domains that eliminate individual switch touch points to ease maintenance time and
costs.
2. Shared network services: Allows premium and entry-level switches that share a common
HyperEdge management domain to share advanced L2/L3 services to achieve lower price per-port
functionality.
3. Scale-out networking:
Integrates high-performance fixed form factor switches to create a single logical device independent
of physical location by scaling ports when and where needed across the campus.
HyperEdge architecture implementation options: Brocade offers multiple implementation options to
achieve the benefits of the HyperEdge Architecture design principles
• The Mixed Stack design integrates premium and entry-level Brocade ICX switches that collapse
the network access and aggregation layers into a single HyperEdge domain that shares services
while reducing management touch points and network hops.
• The Distributed Chassis design integrates high-performance 10 GbE/40 GbE Brocade ICX
stackable switches that collapse the network aggregation and core layers into a single HyperEdge
domain with the density and reliability of large chassis switches at a fraction of the cost, while
putting ports where needed on the campus.
HyperEdge Distributed Chassis Design: The Distributed Chassis feature leverages the capability to
combine up to 12 Brocade ICX 7750 Switch units in a single logical switch spread across the campus.
This distributed chassis offers a level of flexibility, ease of deployment, and total cost of ownership
unmatched by traditional aggregation and small-core chassis solutions. Due to rapid technology
evolution and innovative development, Brocade is able to offer the first 10 GbE/40 GbE stackable
solution for the campus aggregation and core layers that delivers higher performance and port density
than a traditional mid-size chassis, while offering the same level of reliability and availability. Brocade
offers a truly distributed architecture, where all the components can be spread across the entire
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