Brocade BigIron [EOL] Reviews

Name: Brocade BigIron [EOL]
Brand: Extreme Networks
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)

Vendor: Extreme Networks

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What is Brocade BigIron [EOL]?

The BigIron Series switch provides high-performance L2/3 switching for the Enterprise, large data centers, and grid computing topologies. The BigIron Series incorporates the latest advances in switch architecture, system resilience, QoS, and switch security in a family of modular chassis, setting industry-leading benchmarks for price/performance, scalability, and TCO.

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Valuable Features

"BigIron allows for improved reliability, Quality of Service, Total Cost of Ownership, security and scalability that enables future growth and expansion of the network for many years to come."

Room for Improvement

"BigIron switches are expensive, take time to configure and maintain, but have capabilities not found in most switches and thus are an excellent networking investment."

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Brocade BigIron [EOL] was previously known as BigIron.

Brocade BigIron [EOL] customers

Ajubeo, Akquinet AG, Big Data Analytics Provider Boligkontoret Danmark Bristol is Open, CDE Lightband, Cicero School District 99, City and County of San Francisco, Department of Emergency, City of Chattanooga, Cloudscale.sh

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Brocade BigIron [EOL] Reviews Summary
Author info	Rating	Review Summary
Tech Support Staff at a tech company with 51-200 employees	5.0	I found BigIron switches offer excellent reliability, performance, and scalability with advanced features for data centers. Although expensive and complex to maintain, their capabilities make them a strong investment.

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Tech Support Staff at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Jul 1, 2012

Just like its name, BigIron does big things; i have never had switching problems.

Valuable Features:

BigIron allows for improved reliability, Quality of Service, Total Cost of Ownership, security and scalability that enables future growth and expansion of the network for many years to come.It provides switching of high density for core tiers, aggregation and access to the data center server. Its compact design (high density and no-blocking) allows for high performance computing as well as data mining. Biglron also ensures a low latency and high throughput.In case of failure, BigIron switches supports restarts that are faithful for faster convergence, failover and software upgrades that are hitless.

Room for Improvement:

BigIron switches are expensive, take time to configure and maintain, but have capabilities not found in most switches and thus are an excellent networking investment.

Other Advice:

Brocade’s BigIron is a series of switches that is the most advanced and powerful Ethernet switches used in networking and deployment of data centers.The features of Brocade’s BigIron are a continuous monitoring system, network management that is unified, cohesive and easy to use, iron shield security, layer two features like PIM and IGMP snooping, advanced Quality of Service, mobile virtual machine, high scalability and performance, high availability and redundant design and a set of layer 3 features that is robust.