Installation guide

Brocade NetIron CES 2000 and NetIron CER 2000 Hardware Installation Guide 1

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Chapter

Product Overview

Introduction

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. Whether deployed from a central office or from

remote hubs, space is an important constraint for such providers.

In order to meet these challenges, the NetIron Carrier Ethernet Switch (CES) 2000 Series and

NetIron Carrier Ethernet Router (CER) 2000 Series were purpose-built to offer flexible, secure and

advanced processing capabilities in a compact form factor. The NetIron CES 2000 and 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

NetIron CES 2000 Series and 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 NetIron CES 2000 Series and 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 NetIron Carrier Ethernet Switch (CES) and NetIron Carrier Ethernet

Router (CER) hardware.

There are six flavors to the NetIron Carrier Ethernet Switch (CES) 2000 Series:

• 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

• 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

• NetIron CES 2048C — accommodates 48-port 10/100/1000 RJ45 model with 4 combination

100/1000 Hybrid Fiber (HF) ports

• NetIron CES 2048CX — accommodates 48-port 10/100/1000 RJ45 model with 2x10G XFP

uplink ports

• NetIron CES 2048F — accommodates 48-port 100/1000 Hybrid Fiber (HF) model