Force10 Networks E1200 Chassis

Force10 Networks E1200Reliable enterprise chassis switch with massive scalability

  • 1.68Tbps non-blocking switch fabric
  • 14 line card slots
  • 1 billion packets/second
  • ½ 19" rack chassis form factor
  • 224 high-density 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports
  • 56 line-rate 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports
  • 1,260 high-density Gigabit Ethernet ports
  • 132 line-rate Gigabit Ethernet ports

The Force10 E1200 enterprise chassis switch is the flagship product of the Terascale E-Series switch/router models. This line of Gigabit Ethernet switching and routing hardware offers enterprise-class resiliency, scalability and performance. The Force10 E1200 features full L2 switching and L3 routing capabilities. Ideal for applications spanning LANs, MANs and WANs like Clustering, Grid Computing, Campus backbones, next-gen Internet Exchanges, and Metro Ethernet Services.

The E1200 features a unique non-block architecture that provides 56.25 Gbps bandwidth to each line card, as well as advanced queuing, jumbo frame support and multicasting, including:

  • IGMP, IGMP v2
  • PIM-DM & PIM-SM
  • Multi-protocol Extensions for BGP4 (MBGP)
  • Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
  • ietf-draft PIM BSR
  • ietf-draft IGMP Snooping

IPv6 is also supported in the Force10 E1200, including:

  • 2460 Specification
  • 2461 Neighbor Discovery
  • 2463 ICMPv6
  • 2464 Transmission of IPv6 Packets
  • 3513 Addressing
  • 3587 Unicast Address Format
  • and forwarding table support on every line card, for up to 32,000 IPv6 routes (512,000 if IPv4)

Reliability

The system control plane of the Force10 E1200 is distinct from the data plane, and offers three processors for each Route Processor Module (RPM).

  • Processor one handles Layer 2 switching controls
  • Processor two handles Layer 3 routing capabilities
  • Processor three controls management functions

This architecture enhances resiliency with built-in fault containment, protecting against problems like spanning tree loops and DoS attacks without disruption. In addition, all RPMs have a dedicated 100Mbps paths to each line card to prevent against the performance degradation that can occur with slow forwarding table updates.

Fault- tolerance is also enhanced with its passive copper backplane which has no single-point-of-failure. In addition, all RPMs, Switch Fabric Modules (SFMs) and power supplies (AC & DC) are redundant as well, and all memory in the E1200 is ECC/parity-protected. Serviceability and availability features are built into the Force10 Networks E1200, with hot-swappable key components and built-in cable management, in addition to front-side access to cabling and cards.

Manageability

The unified operating software featured in all Force10 networking equipment, FTOS, allows the management of the E1200 to be simplified and supports advanced management functionality, including granular traffic monitoring, management & accounting and:

  • RADIUS, TACACS+, SSH, SCP
  • FTP & TFTP
  • DNS & BootP/DHCP relay
  • SNMP & HP OpenView support
  • RMON
  • AUX & FE management ports

Congestion can be controlled via WRED & WFQ, and packets can filtered via ACLs, and metered and marked for rate limiting and policing. Advanced QoS features include egress rate shaping, weighted fair queuing, and up to 8 traffic classes/port for conditioning.

Reliability

The system control plane of the Force10 E1200 is distinct from the data plane, and offers three processors for each Route Processor Module (RPM).

  • Processor one handles Layer 2 switching controls
  • Processor two handles Layer 3 routing capabilities
  • Processor three controls management functions

This architecture enhances resiliency with built-in fault containment, protecting against problems like spanning tree loops and DoS attacks without disruption. In addition, all RPMs have a dedicated 100Mbps paths to each line card to prevent against the performance degradation that can occur with slow forwarding table updates.

Fault- tolerance is also enhanced with its passive copper backplane which has no single-point-of-failure. In addition, all RPMs, Switch Fabric Modules (SFMs) and power supplies (AC & DC) are redundant as well, and all memory in the E1200 is ECC/parity-protected. Serviceability and availability features are built into the Force10 Networks E1200, with hot-swappable key components and built-in cable management, in addition to front-side access to cabling and cards.

Scalability

The modular architecture of all the E-Series Terascale Force10 enterprise chassis, including the E1200, enabling the switching architecture to dynamically change to accommodate changing environments & requirements. The E1200 includes 14 line-card slots, and line-card in the E-Series are compatible across the entire line, designed to work in any E1200, E600, or E300 RPM.

Future-proof

The E1200 includes the ability to upgrade in the future to new Ethernet technologies such as 100 Gigabit Ethernet when needed. With a 5 Tbps backplane, this chassis has the ability to delivery 330Gbps throughput to each slot. This allows the upgrade to 40 or 100 Gigabit Ethernet to occur without forklift upgrades. Once the new technology is available, your infrastructure will be ready.

Force10 Networks E12000 Power & Cooling Specifications
Thermal Output

Maximum thermal output: 5,100 W (17,402 BTU/h)

Power Consumption

Maximum current draw per DC PEM: 150 A
Maximum power consumption: 5,400 W

AC Power Consumption

Nominal input voltage: 200-240 VAC 50/60 Hz
Maximum thermal output: 5,700 W (19,449 BTU/h)
Maximum input current per module: 15.6 A at 200 VAC 13 A at 240 VAC
Maximum system power input: 6.0 KVA at 200/240 VAC
Maximum power consumption: 6,000 W at 200/240 VAC

NEBS RoHS-compliant, On board thermal and voltage monitoring, GR-63-Core: NEBS, physical protection, GR-1089-Core: EMC and Electrical Safety for Network Telecommunications Equipment, SR-3580 NEBS criteria levels (Level 3 compliance)

Force10 LogoOther Features

  • Up to 4,000 VLANs
  • 896,000 maximum MAC entries
  • 255 link aggregation groups
  • 16 link aggregation members
  • 9,252 bytes for jumbo frames
  • maximum 1,100 IP interfaces
  • maximum 100,000 ARP entries
  • RIP, OSPF
  • IS-IS, BGP
  • 56 line-rate OC3/OC12c/OC48c ports
  • 1,000 Mbps forwarding capacity

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