Foundry Networks BIGIRON RX-32, BIGIRON RX-8, BIGIRON RX-4, BIGIRON RX-76, BIGIRON RX-16 Brochure & Specs

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Overview

The role of data networks in our daily lives continues to expand and
grow. Emerging needs such as application convergence, non-stop
operation, scalability and IPv6-readiness place new demands on the
network. Modern network solutions must be assessed across a wider
set of attributes than earlier generation equipment. In particular,
the network must be evaluated on merits that include performance,
reliability, scalability, quality of service, security and total cost of
ownership (TCO).

The BigIron RX Series of Layer 2/3 Ethernet switches excels in
all of these areas, enabling network designers to deploy an Ethernet
infrastructure that addresses today’s requirements with a scalable
architecture designed to support network growth and evolution.
BigIron RX Series incorporates the latest advances in switch
architecture, system resilience, quality of service and switch security
in a family of modular chassis setting leading industry benchmarks
for price-performance, scalability and TCO.

Available in four chassis models, the BigIron RX Series allows
network designers to standardize on a single product family for
aggregation and backbone switching. In addition to its enterprise
role, the BigIron RX Series, with its high-density and compact
design, is an ideal IP solution for high-performance computing

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MODULAR LAYER 2/3 ETHERNET

SWITCH FAMILY

environments and Internet Exchanges and Internet Service
Providers (IXPs and ISPs) where non-blocking, high-density
Ethernet switches are needed.

All four BigIron RX systems are designed for non-stop operation,
supporting 1:1 management module redundancy, N+1 switch
module redundancy, M+N power module redundancy and N+1
fan redundancy. Additionally, BigIron RX Series supports hitless
Layer 2 software upgrades and graceful restart routing for fast
convergence in the event of a management module failure.

At the heart of the BigIron RX architecture is an adaptive self­routing Clos switch fabric with a virtual output queue (VOQ)
design. This non-blocking architecture is optimized for maximum
throughput and low latency for all size packets. Scalable to over
two billion packets per second, the BigIron RX Series is the most
powerful Ethernet switch family in the industry. This advanced
and scalable design ensures the reliable deliver of all IP-based voice,
video and data applications.

The BigIron RX switches ship with field-proven IronWare
networking software and IronShield security, embedded sFlow
per port, advanced Ethernet switching, IPv4/IPv6 routing and
multilayer security services. BigIron RX Series enables a user to
deploy a reliable, secure and scalable networking solution today that
is ready to accommodate tomorrow’s applications and technologies.

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Product Highlights

t System redundancy (switch, management and power) across

all BigIron RX chassis—BigIron RX-4, BigIron RX-8,
BigIron RX-16 and BigIron RX-32

t Interchangeable half-height line modules reduce sparing costs

and provide cost-effective modular growth (i.e., invest as needed)

t Compact chassis design supports very high-density single rack

configurations—up to 192 wire-speed 10-Gigabit Ethernet and
2,304 wire-speed Gigabit Ethernet in standard 7-foot Telco rack

t Scalable hardware-based IP routing to 512,000 IPv4 routes per

line module

t Powerful suite of unicast and multicast IPv4 and IPv6

protocol support

t Robust and scalable protocols for fast service restoration in

the event of equipment failure or topology change

t Advanced virtual output queue (VoQ) design eliminates head

of line blocking and provides scalable quality of service

t Flexible traffic policies supported with single rate and dual-rate

traffic policing with three color marking

t End to End QoS supported with hardware based honoring and

marking and congestion management

t Network Security ensured with line rate filtering, QoS

protections and traffic monitoring

t High-capacity 80 Gbps cross-module link aggregation supports

high-bandwidth inter-switch trunking

t High-availability design features redundant and hot-pluggable

hardware, hitless Layer 2 software upgrades and graceful BGP
and OSPF restart

t Advanced non-blocking Clos fabric features adaptive self-routing

with graceful system degradation in the event of two or more
module failures

t Embedded sFlow per port supports scalable hardware-based

traffic monitoring across all switch ports without impacting
performance

System Summary

FEATURE BIGIRON RX-4 BIGIRON RX-8 BIGIRON RX-16 BIGIRON RX-32

I/O Module Slots 4 8 16 32

Switching capacity per system

Available data capacity 400 Gbps 800 Gbps 1.60 Tbps 3.2 Tbps

Total switch capacity 960 Gbps 1.92 Tbps 3.84 Tbps 5.12 Tbps

Packet forwarding capacity 286 Mpps 571 Mpps 1,142 Mpps 2.284 Mpps

per system

Max 10-GbE ports per system 16 32 64 128

Max 1-GbE ports per system 192 384 768 1,536

Height (inches/rack units) 7"/4RU 12.25"/7RU 24.5"/14RU 57.75"/33RU

Airflow Side-to-Side Side-to-Side Front-to-Back Front-to-Back

Power supply redundancy M+N M+N M+N M+N

(M = Number of supplies needed for fully loaded system and N = 1 to M supply redundancy)

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Purpose-built Feature Set for Demanding Networks

INDUSTRY LEADING PERFORMANCE AND
SCALABILITY

The BigIron RX Series is the industry’s most powerful switch
family, delivering up to 3.2 terabits per second data throughput
per system.

HIGH-AVAILABILITY DESIGN

Redundant and resilient design ensures high availability operation
for demanding environments.

t Redundant, hot-swappable components provide non-stop

service delivery

– Management module: Systems configured with dual
management modules with sub-second detection and fail-over

– Switch Fabric Element Redundancy: Systems configured
with a redundant switch fabric module support millisecond
fail-over performance

– Hitless Management Failover (HMF): Stateful failover
ensures that the forwarding engines on the line modules are
not impacted by a management failover. This capability enables
non-stop packet forwarding in the event of a management
module failover.

– Redundant Power Supplies: All three chassis support M+N
power module redundancy for AC and DC power configurations.

t Distributed Forwarding Architecture—Advanced network

processors, high-performance CPU and high-speed memory
on each interface module provide for a scalable high-performance
architecture

t IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation up to eight links—Scalable,

cross-module trunking provides for resilient high-capacity
connections between switches.

t Resilient Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols provide fast service

restoration in event of link or equipment failures

– Metro Ring Protocol optimized for ring topologies,
IEEE 802.1s and 802.1w for general Layer 2 topologies,
VSRP for redundant switch configurations and VRRP/
VRRP-E for redundant router configurations, ECMP
for routed backbones

ROBUST LAYER 3 FEATURE SET

Foundry’s IronWare software suite includes scalable EGP and
IGP routing protocols.

t BGPv4—Scalable to 4 million routes, 500 peers and 14,000

attributes with MR2 management module

t OSPF—Scalable to over 400,000 routes

t Foundry Direct Routing (FDR)—The forwarding information

base (FIB) is downloaded to the hardware-based forwarding engine
on each line module. This memory can be pre-populated with
as many as 512,000 IPv4 and 64,000 IPv6 routes for wire-speed
routing performance.

t Policy-based Routing (PBR)—Support customizable routing

policies using access control lists (ACLs). This feature can be
used to balance network usage by controlling the network paths
for different traffic flows.

t Comprehensive multicast feature set—Provides hardware-

based support for a number of multicast protocols including
MSDP, PIM-SM (Sparse Mode) and PIM-DM (Dense Mode),
allowing network managers to efficiently deploy next-generation
multicast applications

t VRRP and VRRPE (Enhanced VRRP)—Enables the BigIron

RX to operate as a backup router to other network routers. In
the event of a router failure, the BigIron RX will automatically
and seamlessly perform the tasks of the failed router.

INDUSTRY LEADING LAYER 2 FEATURES

To provide self-healing topologies in Layer 2 configurations,
the BigIron RX supports industry standard Ethernet protocols
including Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), Rapid Spanning Tree
(RSTP), per VLAN STP (PVST) and per VLAN group STP
(PVGST). The BigIron RX also supports Foundry’s Metro
Ring Protocol (MRP) for sub-second service restoration in ring
topologies. Additionally, the BigIron RX supports multi-instance
spanning tree, VLAN topology grouping and VLAN tunneling
for advanced Layer 2 service configurations.

t Metro Ring Protocol (MRP)—An alternative to Spanning

Tree Protocol, MRP provides sub-second fault detection and
fail-over for Ethernet ring topologies. MRP works in conjunction
with VSRP and 802.3ad based link aggregation to provide
bandwidth scalability and SONET-like resilience.

t Virtual Switch Redundancy Protocol (VSRP)—Supports

sub-second fault detection and fail-over for mesh topologies
in which redundant switches provide back-up operation for
one another

t Single-instance STP—Provides a single instance of STP to run

on all port-based VLANs within a single device, interoperable
with others that are 802.1d compliant

t Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol based on IEEE 802.1w—

Dramatically improves the spanning tree convergence time to
sub-second by automatically renegotiating port roles in case of a
link failure without relying on timers

t IS-IS—Support for Level 1 and Level 2, includes 25,000 routes

and 512 adjacencies

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t Per VLAN Spanning Tree (PVST)—Allows for control of STP

on an individual VLAN basis for traffic engineering VLAN traffic
(i.e., load distribution)

t Topology Groups—Dramatically improves Layer 2 control

protocol scalability by allowing a few instances of STP, RSTP,
MRP, or VSRP to control large groups of VLANs

t Super Aggregated VLANs (SAVs)—Allows transparent

tunneling of multiple VLANs through a single backbone VLAN

t PIM and IGMP Snooping—Offers efficient handling of

multicast traffic in Layer 2 topologies by identifying ports that
request a multicast stream and forwarding the stream only
on these ports. This dramatically improves the performance
of multicast applications, allowing for many more streams to
be transiting the network.

COHESIVE, UNIFIED AND EASY-TO-USE
NETWORK MANAGEMENT

t Centralized network management—Foundry’s IronView

Network Manager is a web-based, graphical interface tool that
empowers network operators to seamlessly control software and
configuration updates

t Command Line Interface (CLI)—Industry-standard

configuration interface, consistent and common throughout
all Foundry’s products

t Web interface—Provides easy-to-use Graphical User Interface

(GUI) for system configuration from standard Web browsers

t sFlow (RFC 3176)—Provides scalable, wire-speed network

monitoring and accounting with no impact on network
performance

ADVANCED QUALITY OF SERVICE

t Advanced QoS—Allows administrators to enforce QoS policies

based on port, VLAN, source MAC, ACL rules, 802.1p priority,
Type of Service (ToS), DiffServ settings or Rate Limiting status

t Very low latency across all packet sizes—Consistent low

latency for strict priority applications such as voice over IP, high
performance computing and video over IP

t Configurable combinations of queuing disciplines and

congestion control policies—Combinations of Strict Priority

(SP) and Weighted Fair Queuing (WFQ) provide flexibility for
network administrators. In the event of egress port congestion,
traffic policies can be configured for tail drop or weighted
random early detection (WRED) operation.

t Advanced Bandwidth Management—Allows intelligent

bandwidth management using hardware based enforcement of
Committed Information Rate (CIR) with Excess Burst control
capabilities and seamless integration with other advanced QoS
features including priority marking and honoring.

IRONSHIELD™ SECURITY

t Wire-speed extended Layer 2, Layer 3 & 4 Access Control

Lists (ACL)—Control packet forwarding and restricts access

to the system management interface, while providing wire-speed
switching and routing:

– Extensible ACL Implementation for Layer 3 & 4
Information: Identifies traffic based on source or destination
IP address, IP protocol type, TCP or UDP port, IP precedence
or ToS values

– Flexible ACL Implementation for Layer 2 Information:
Identifies traffic based on source or destination MAC address,
Ethernet type, VLAN-ID values and 802.1p values

– ACL scalability: Support for up to 8,000 ACLs

– Ease of administration: Identify an ACL by name or
number, or add a comment line for ease of administration

– Secure Shell and Secure Copy: Provides secure access to the
administration and management interface over the network

t Protection against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks—Prevents

or minimizes network downtime from malicious users by limiting
TCP SYN and ICMP traffic and protects against broadcast storms

t User authentication—Authentication with AAA, 802.1x,

RADIUS, TACACS, and TACACS+ prevents unauthorized
network access

t MAC Port Security—Controls the MAC addresses allowed

per port

t sFlow (RFC 3176)—Provides cost-effective, scalable, wire-

speed network monitoring to detect unusual network activity

t SNMPv3—Secured SNMP management with authentication

and privacy services

t BGP-Guard—Complements MD5 security for BGP sessions

to protect against session disruption by restricting the number
of hops the BGP session can traverse

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Applications

FOUNDRY ENTERPRISE INFRASTRUCTURE SOLUTIONS

Today’s Enterprise network is critical to the ongoing operations
of the organization. Network administrators are concerned about
zero downtime on the network, securing the network from DoS
attacks, cyber-spying, and malicious users, and maintaining data
integrity and confidentiality, without adding excessive cost or
impacting performance. All this in a structure that allows for
graceful growth as the Enterprise grows.

The BigIron RX Series incorporates exceptional resiliency, security
and scalability in an architecture designed to scale from the edge to
the core to minimize TCO. The resilient design includes redundant
management modules, switch fabrics, fans and power supplies. This
hardware resiliency is enhanced with software resiliency including
hitless system failover, graceful restart, MRP, VSRP, and VRRP for

Layer 2 and Layer 3 resiliency. High priority voice and data traffic fly
through the chassis utilizing the high performance hardware-based
QoS features of the RX Series. Wire-speed security is maintained by
locking out unauthorized users with port security, by filtering
DoS and unauthorized traffic with ACLs, and by monitoring
traffic flows with sFlow. The BigIron RX Series allows you to
grow from just 24 ports of 10/100/1000 at the edge up to 1,536
ports of 10/100/1000 or 128 ports of 10-Gigabit Ethernet in the
core. BigIron RX Series provides one common architecture that
meets the demands of today’s, and tomorrow’s Enterprise network
needs with high performance, resiliency, security and scalability
with low TCO.

FOUNDRY FOR ENTERPRISE AND APPLICATION HOSTING SOLUTIONS

Data centers are the core of business operations requiring high
density, high performance, high security and low latency switching to
ensure connectivity to mission critical applications.The increasing
value of the data center to business operations necessitates that data and
network integrity, confidentiality and security must be maintained
without impacting performance.

The BigIron RX Series addresses these needs by acting as the
gateway and switch fabric of the data center. The density of the
RX Series allows for growth from the smallest to the largest data
center. Port aggregation allows for high performance interconnects
up to 80 Gbps increasing the availability of the server farm.

Foundry’s hardware based IronShield™ security features protect
the server farm against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and provide
security for maintaining network integrity. The sFlow functionality
supplies the network access information required to track who has
accessed which server on the network as a means to provide network
usage audit trails. Utilizing Foundry’s wire-speed switching and
filtering to screen and direct traffic to the appropriate server and
block undesired traffic with minimal latency ensure the optimal
operation, security and integrity of the network and data center.

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FOUNDRY FOR INTERNET EXCHANGE SOLUTIONS

Internet Exchanges (IX) demand high-performance Layer 2
topologies with high density Gigabit and 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports.
These cross-roads of the Internet connect high-performance routers
from many Service Providers in peering relationships without
requiring a full mesh of router ports.

The BigIron RX Series excels in this environment. Offering
high density 1-Gigabit and 10-Gigabit Ethernet together with
the resiliency features of the chassis make the BigIron RX Series
an extremely cost effective and robust solution.

FOUNDRY FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SOLUTIONS

High-performance computing has entered the mainstream
marketplace with Ethernet switching as the technology of
choice. Ultra-low latency and high-density Ethernet switching
are required for successful deployment.

The BigIron RX Series chassis are ideal for this environment.
They offer low latency through the switch with unparalleled
densities of 10/100/1000 Ethernet, fiber Gigabit Ethernet and

10-Gigabit Ethernet in compact size chassis—up to 1,536 ports
of Gigabit Ethernet or 128 ports of 10-Gigabit Ethernet in a single
chassis. The high-performance architecture offers up to 3.2 Tbps of
data switching capacity to meet the needs of the most demanding
HPC environment. The combination of performance, density
and reliability makes the BigIron RX Series an excellent choice
for Enterprise HPC environments.

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Technical Specifications

IEEE COMPLIANCE

– 802.3ae 10-Gigabit Ethernet
– 802.3ab Gigabit Ethernet over Copper
– 802.3x Flow Control
– 802.3ad Link Aggregation
– 802.1Q VLAN Tagging
– 802.1D Bridging
– 802.1w Rapid STP
– 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol
– 802.1X User authentication
– 802.3 Ethernet Like MIB

RFC COMPLIANCE

BGPv4

– RFC 4271 BGPv4
– RFC 1745 OSPF interactions
– RFC 1997 Communities & Attributes
– RFC 2439 route flap dampening
– RFC 2796 route reflection
– RFC 3065 BGP4 confederations
– RFC 3392 Capability Advertisement
– RFC 2918 Route Refresh Capability
– RFC 1269 Managed Objects for BGP
– RFC 1657 Managed Objects for BGP-4

using SMIv2
– RFC 3682 Generalized TTL Security Mechanism

for eBGP Session Protection
– RFC 2385 BGP Session Protection via TCP MD5
– draft-ietf-idr-restart Graceful Restart for BGP
– draft-ieft-idr-route-filter

OSPF

– RFC 2178 OSPF
– RFC 1583 OSPF v2
– RFC 3101 OSPF NSSA
– RFC 1745 OSPF Interactions
– RFC 1765 OSPF Database Overflow
– RFC 1850 OSPF v2 MIB and Traps
– RFC 2328 OSPF v2
– RFC 2370 OSPF Opaque LSA Option
– RFC 3623 Graceful OSPF Restart

IS-IS

– RFC 1195 Routing in TCP/IP and
Dual Environments
– RFC 2763 Dynamic Host Name Exchange
– RFC 2966 Domain-wide Prefix Distribution
– RFC 3567 IS-IS Cryptographic Authentication
(MDS)

RIP

– RFC 1058 RIP v1
– RFC 1723 RIP v2
– RFC 1812 RIP Requirements

IP Multicast

– RFC 1122 Host Extensions
– RFC 1256 ICMP Router Discovery Protocol
– RFC 1112 IGMP
– RFC 2236 IGMP v2
– RFC 2362 PIM-SM
– RFC 3973 PIM-DM
– PIM-DM v1
– DVMRP v3-07
– RFC 1075 DVMRP v2
– RFC 2336 IGMP v2
– RFC 3618 MSDP
– RFC 2283 MBGP
– RFC 2858 BGP-MP
– RFC 3376 IGMP v3
– RFC 3446 Anycast RP
– RFC 4541 Considerations for IGMP

and MLD Snooping

General Protocols

– RFC 791 IP
– RFC 792 ICMP
– RFC 793 TCP
– RFC 783 TFTP
– RFC 826 ARP
– RFC 768 UDP
– RFC 894 IP over Ethernet
– RFC 903 RARP
– RFC 906 TFTP Bootstrap
– RFC 1027 Proxy ARP
– RFC 950 Subnets
– RFC 951 BootP
– RFC 1122 Host Requirements
– RFC 1256 IRDP
– RFC 1519 CIDR
– RFC 1542 BootP Extensions
– RFC 1812 General Routing
– RFC 1541 and 1542 DHCP
– RFC 2131 BootP/DHCP Helper
– RFC 3768 VRRP
– RFC 854 TELNET
– RFC 1591 DNS (client)
– RFC 2784 GRE
– RFC 1191 Path MTU Discovery
– RFC 896 Congestion Control
– RFC 3635 Pause Control
– RFC 1858 IP Fragment Filtering
– RFC 1340 Assigned Numbers

Others

– RFC 2578 SMIv2
– RFC 2579 Textual Conventions for SMIv2
– RFC 2665 Ethernet Interface MIB
– RFC 1354 IP Forwarding MIB
– RFC 1757 RMON Groups Partial 1, full for 2, 3, 9
– RFC 2068 HTTP
– RFC 1305 NTPv3 Specification, Implementation

and Analysis
– RFC 2030 SNTP
– RFC 2138 RADIUS
– RFC 3176 sFlow
– Draft-ietf-tcpm-tcpsecure-00

IPv6 Core

– RFC 2373 IPv6 Addressing architecture
– RFC 1886 DNS Extensions to support IPv6
– RFC 1887 IPV6 Unicast address allocation architecture
– RFC 2374 IPv6 aggregatable global Unicast address format
– RFC 2450 Proposed TLA and NLA Assignment Rules
– RFC 2471 IPv6 testing address allocation
– RFC 2526 Reserved IPv6 subnet anycast address
– RFC 2928 Initial IPv6 sub TLA ID assignments
– RFC 2460 IPv6 Specification
– RFC 2461 IPv6 Neighbor Discovery
– RFC 2462 IPv6 Stateless Address Auto-configuration
– RFC 4443 ICMPv6
– RFC 3513 IPv6 Addressing Architecture
– RFC 1981 IPv6 Path MTU Discovery
– RFC 3587 IPv6 Global Unicast Address Format
– RFC 2375 IPv6 Multicast Address Assignments
– RFC 2464 Transmission of IPv6 over Ethernet Networks
– RFC 2711 IPv6 Router Alert Option
– RFC 3363 DNS support

IPv6 Routing

– RFC 2080 RIPng for IPv6
– RFC 2740 OSPFv3 for IPv6
– IETF Draft_ietf_isis_IPv6 IS-IS for IPv6
– RFC 2545 Use of MP-BGP-4 for IPv6

IPv6 Multicast

– RFC 2362 PIM-SM
– RFC 2710 Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6
– RFC 3306 Unicast-Prefix-based IPv6 Multicast Addresses
– RFC 3810 MLDv2
– RFC 4602 PIM-SM (Partial Address)
– draft-holbrook-idmr-igmpv3-ssm—IGMPv3 & MDLV2

for SSM
– draft-ietf-ssm-arch SSM for IP

IPv6 Transitioning

– RFC 2893 Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts
and Routers
– RFC 3056 Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds

NETWORK MANAGEMENT

– IronView Network Manager (INM) Web-based graphical
user interface
– Integrated Standard-based Command Line Interface (CLI)
– RFC 3176 sFlow
– RFC 854 Telnet
– RFC 2068 HTTP
– RFC 2578 and 3410 SNMPv2 and v3
– RFC 1757 RMON Group partial 1, full 2, 3, and 9
– HP OpenView for Sun Solaris, HP-UX, IBM’s AIX,

Linux and Windows NT
– SNMP MIB II

ELEMENT SECURITY OPTIONS

– AAA
– RADIUS
– Secure Shell (SSH v2)
– Secure Copy (SCP)
– TACACS/TACACS+
– Username/Password (Challenge and Response)
– Bi-level Access Mode (Standard and EXEC Level)
– Protection for Denial of Service attacks, such as TCP SYN

or Smurf Attacks

ENVIRONMENTAL

– Operating Temperature: 0 °C to 40 °C (32 °F to 104 °F)
– Relative Humidity: 5 to 90%,@40 °C (104 °F),
non-condensing
– Operating Altitude: 10,000 ft (3,000 m)
– Storage Temperature: -25 ºC to 70 ºC (-13 ºF to 158 °F)
– Storage Humidity: 95% maximum relative humidity,
non-condensing
– Storage Altitude: 15,000 ft (4,500 m) maximum

SAFETY AGENCY APPROVALS

– CAN/CSA-C22.2 No.60950-00/UL 60950—Third
Edition, Safety of Information Technology Equipment

– EN 60825-1 Safety of Laser Products—Part 1: Equipment
Classification, Requirements and User’s Guide
– EN 60825-2 Safety of Laser Products—Part 2: Safety of
Optical Fibre Communication Systems
– EN 60950 Safety of Information Technology Equipment

ELECTROMAGNETIC EMISSION
CERTIFICATION

– CSA 950 Electromagnetic Emission Certification
– FCC Class A
– EN 55022/CISPR-22 Class A/ VCCI Class A
– ICES-003 Electromagnetic Emission

IMMUNITY

– EN 61000-3-2 Power Line Harmonics
– EN 61000-4-2 ESD
– EN 61000-4-3 Radiated Immunity
– EN 61000-4-4 EFT
– EN 61000-4-5 Surge
– EN 61000-4-6 Low Frequency Common Immunity
– EN 61000-4-11 Voltage Dips and Sags Generic: EN50082-1
– ESD: IEC 61000-4-2; 4 kV CD, 8 kV AD
– Radiated: IEC 61000-4-3;3 V/m
– EFT/Burst: IEC 61000-4-4;1.0 kV (power line), 0.5 kV
(signal line)
– Conducted: IEC 61000-4-6; 3 V

ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATORY
COMPLIANCE

– EU 2002/95/EC RoHS (with lead exemption)
– EU 2002/91/EC WEEE

WARRANTY

– 1-year hardware
– 90-day software

MOUNTING OPTIONS

– 19" Universal EIA 310 (Telco) Rack or Tabletop

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BIGIRON RX SERIES SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS

SYSTEM MAX @100 VAC @200 VAC @-48VDC

Current Power Thermal Output Current Power Thermal Output Current Power Thermal Output
Amps Watts BTU/HR Amps Watts BTU/HR Amps Watts BTU/HR

BigIron RX-32 N/A N/A N/A 57 11,353 38,746 237 11,353 38,746
BigIron RX -16 49 4,905 16,741 24 4,905 16,741 102 4,905 16,741
BigIron RX- 8 24 2,417 8,249 12 2,417 8,249 50 2,417 8,249
BigIron RX-4 12 1,217 4,155 6 1,217 4,155 25 1,217 4,155

BIGIRON RX PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS

DIMENSIONS WEIGHT

BigIron RX-32 17.45"w x 57.71"h x 24.1"d 44.32w x 146.58h x 61.21d cm approx 478 lbs approx 217 kg
BigIron RX-16 17.45"w x 24.47"h x 25.5"d 44.32w x 62.15h x 64.77d cm 236 lbs 107 kg
BigIron RX-8 17.45"w x 12.21"h x 22.5"d 44.32w x 31.01h x 57.15d cm 131 lbs 60 kg
BigIron RX-4 17.45"w x 6.96"h x 22.5"d 44.32w x 17.68h x 57.15d cm 78 lbs 35 kg

Ordering Information

PART NUMBER DESCRIPTION

BI-RX-32-AC BigIron RX-32 AC system
BI-RX-16-AC BigIron RX-16 AC system
BI-RX-8-AC BigIron RX-8 AC system
BI-RX-4-AC BigIron RX-4 AC system
BI-RX-32-DC BigIron RX-32 DC system
BI-RX-16-DC BigIron RX-16 DC system
BI-RX-8-DC BigIron RX-8 DC system
BI-RX-4-DC BigIron RX-4 DC system
RX-BI2XG 2-port 10-Gigabit Ethernet XFP module for BigIron RX Series
RX-BI4XG 4-port 10-Gigabit Ethernet XFP module for BigIron RX Series
RX-BI24C 24-port 10/100/1000 Ethernet RJ-45 module for BigIron RX Series
RX-BI24F 24-port Gigabit Ethernet SFP module for BigIron RX Series
RX-BI24HF 24-port 100/1000 Ethernet SFP module for BigIron RX Series
RX-BI48T 48-port 10/100/1000 Ethernet MRJ-21 module for BigIron RX Series
RX-BI-32-MR Management module for BigIron RX-32 chassis, 512MB memory
RX-BI-32-MR2 Management module for BigIron RX-32 chassis, 2GB memory
RX-BI-MR Management Module for BigIron RX Series chassis, 512MB memory
RX-BI-MR2 Management Module for BigIron RX Series, 2GB memory
RX-BI-SFM1 Switch Fabric Element for BigIron RX-4
RX-BI-SFM3 Switch Fabric Element for BigIron RX-8 and RX-16
RX-BI-32-SFM Switch Fabric Element for BigIron RX-32
RX-32-ACPWR BigIron RX-32 AC power supply
RX-32-DCPWR BigIron RX-32 DC power supply
RX-ACPWR-B-SYS 90 – 264 VAC power supply for BigIron RX-4 chassis
RX-ACPWR-F-SYS 90 – 264 VAC power supply for BigIron RX-8 and RX-16 chassis
RX-DCPWR-B-SYS -48 VDC power supply for BigIron RX-4 chassis
RX-DCPWR-F-SYS -48 VDC power supply for BigIron RX-8 and RX-16 chassis
10G-XFP-SR 850nm serial pluggable XFP optic only (LC) over MMF
10G-XFP-LR 1310nm serial pluggable XFP optic only (LC) for up to 10km over SMF
10G-XFP-ER 1550nm serial pluggable XFP optic only (LC) for up to 40km over SMF
10G-XFP-ZR 1550nm serial pluggable XFP optic only (LC) for up to 80km over SMF

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Foundry Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FDRY) is a leading provider of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing, security and Web traffic management solutions, including Layer 2/3 LAN switches, Layer 3 Backbone
switches, Layer 4-7 application switches, wireless LAN and access points, metro and core routers. Foundry’s customers include the world’s premier ISPs, metro service providers, and enterprises, including e-commerce sites, universities,
entertainment, health and wellness, government, financial and manufacturing companies. For more information about the company and its products, call 1.888.TURBOLAN or visit www.foundrynet.com.

The foregoing may contain “forward-looking statements” which are based on management’s current information and beliefs as well as on a number of assumptions concerning future events made by management. These forward-looking
statements include, without limitation, statements by executives or spokespeople regarding Foundry’s positioning and potential plans. The forward-looking statements are only predictions and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties,
which could cause actual results to differ materially. Foundry assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements contained in this document. Furthermore, no statements made by Foundry Networks, Inc. (“Foundry”),
or information contained herein, may be deemed to constitute either an amendment of an existing agreement or an implied new commitment, promise or legal obligation by Foundry to develop or deliver any specific product, feature
or functionality.

© 2008 Foundry Networks, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Foundry Networks, BigIron, NetIron, IronShield, IronView, IronWare, JetCore, JetScope, MetroLink, Terathon, TrafficWorks, Power of Performance and the ‘Iron’ family
of marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Foundry Networks, Inc. in the United States and other countries. sFlow is a registered trademark of InMon Corporation. All others are trademarks of their respective owners.
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