Brocade Netiron CES and Brocade Netiron CER Devices Hardware ...

Product Overview
Introduction
Chapter
Network planners today have to expand and extend the range of services offered further into the
edge of the network. This requires extending the intelligence and high-touch processing capabilities
to the network edge— whether in a metro network, a campus network or in a data center. The
challenge at the edge of the network is compounded by the need to flexibly define and easily
manage customer services in an intuitive manner. Further, of many rollouts. Whether deployed
from a central office or from remote huts, space is an important constraint for such providers.
In order to meet these challenges, the Brocade NetIron Carrier Ethernet Switch (CES) 2000 Series
and Brocade NetIron Carrier Ethernet Router (CER) 2000 Series were purpose-built to offer flexible,
secure and advanced processing capabilities in a compact form factor. The Brocade NetIron CES
2000 and Brocade NetIron CER 2000 Series are compact 1 RU, multi-service edge or aggregation
devices with a powerful set of capabilities chosen to combine performance with rich functionality at
the edge of the network. The Brocade NetIron CES 2000 Series and Brocade NetIron CER 2000
Series devices offer network planners a rich set of high-performance IPv4, Classic Layer 2, Provider
Bridge (PB) and Provider Backbone Bridge (PBB) functionalities in the same device. With these
capabilities, a diverse set of applications ranging from metro edge networks, ISPs, data centers,
large enterprises, government networks, and education or research can be addressed with the
Brocade NetIron CES 2000 Series and Brocade NetIron CER 2000 Series.
This guide includes procedures for installing the hardware and configuring essential, basic
parameters such as permanent passwords and IP addresses. The basic software configuration
procedures show how to perform tasks using the CLI. This guide also includes instructions for
managing and maintaining the Brocade NetIron Carrier Ethernet Switch (CES) and Brocade NetIron
Carrier Ethernet Router (CER) hardware.
There are six flavors to the Brocade NetIron Carrier Ethernet Switch (CES) 2000 Series:
• Brocade NetIron CES 2024C — accommodates 24-port 10/100/1000 RJ45 model with 4
combination 100/1000 Hybrid Fiber (HF) ports and an optional field upgradeable 2x10G
uplink slot
• Brocade NetIron CES 2024F — accommodates 24-port 100/1000 Hybrid Fiber (HF) model with
4 combination 10/100/1000 RJ45 ports and an optional field upgradeable 2x10G XFP uplink
slot
• Brocade NetIron CES 2048C — accommodates 48-port 10/100/1000 RJ45 model with 4
combination 100/1000 Hybrid Fiber (HF) ports
• Brocade NetIron CES 2048CX — accommodates 48-port 10/100/1000 RJ45 model with
2x10G XFP uplink ports
• Brocade NetIron CES 2048F — accommodates 48-port 100/1000 Hybrid Fiber (HF) model
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