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DATA SHEET

Brocade ICX 7450 Switch

Enterprise Stackable Switch Delivers Premium Capabilities
and Ultimate Flexibility

Highlights

••Provides a unique modular design

with three expansion slots for a choice
of 1 GbE, 10 GbE, or 40 GbE uplinks,
offering ultimate flexibility and
“pay as you grow” scalability

••Supports next-generation 802.11ac
Wave 2 wireless enterprise access
points with 2.5 GbE ports

••Delivers market-leading stacking

scalability with up to 12 switches
per stack, 960 Gbps of aggregated
stacking bandwidth, and
long-distance stacking using
open-standards QSFP+ or SFP+
ports to enable single point
management across the campus

••Provides OpenFlow support in

true hybrid port mode, enabling
Software-Defined Networking
(SDN) for programmatic control
of network data flows

••Offers Power over HDBaseT (PoH),
to power video surveillance and
video conferencing equipment,
VDI terminals, and HD displays
directly from the switch

The Brocade® ICX® 7450 Switch delivers the performance, flexibility,
and scalability required for enterprise Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) access
deployment. It offers market-leading stacking density with up to 12
switches (576 1 GbE and 48 10 GbE ports) per stack and combines
chassis-level performance and reliability with the flexibility, costeffectiveness, and “pay as you grow” scalability of a stackable solution.
In addition, this mid-market stackable switch is the first in its class to
offer 40 GbE uplinks, enabling enterprises to dramatically increase their
network capacity while using their existing optical wire infrastructure.
The unique design of the Brocade ICX
7450 provides three modular slots,
offering up to 12 1/10 GbE SFP/SFP+
ports, 12 10GBASE-T ports, or up to
three 40 GbE QSFP+ ports for uplink
or stacking. As a result, the Brocade
ICX 7450 can easily deliver sufficient
bandwidth between the edge and
aggregation layers to support expanding
video traffic, VDI adoption, and highspeed wireless 802.11ac deployment.
Additionally, the Brocade ICX 7450
delivers wire-speed, non-blocking
performance across all ports for flawless
support of latency-sensitive applications.
The Brocade ICX 7450 is an ideal
network solution for campus network
1 GbE and 2.5 GbE access or small
aggregation deployment with
10 GbE or 40 GbE uplinks to the core.
The Brocade ICX 7450 also makes a very

suitable data center Top-of-Rack (ToR)
solution, delivering a mix of 1 GbE and
10 GbE server connectivity ports with
10 GbE or 40 GbE uplinks to the data
center aggregation or core.

Scaling Out Ports as Demand Grows
The Brocade ICX 7450 is easy to deploy,
manage, and integrate into both new and
existing networks. Organizations can buy
only what they need today, and easily
scale out as demand grows and new
technologies emerge.
With three modular slots, the Brocade ICX
7450 enables organizations to grow their
networks when necessary. Organizations
can initially deploy 1 GbE or 10 GbE uplink
ports and upgrade to 40 GbE ports ondemand wit