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DATA SHEET

Brocade ICX 6610 Switches

Chassis-Like Capabilities in a Stackable Form Factor

HIGHLIGHTS

••Delivers chassis-level performance and
availability, providing an optimal user
experience for streaming video, VDI,
UC, and other critical applications

••Offers unprecedented stacking

performance with 320 Gbps of
stacking bandwidth, eliminating
inter-switch bottlenecks

••Provides up to 1 Tbps of total switching
capacity with up to 384 1 GbE and 64
10 GbE per stack for campus network
edge and aggregation layers

••Provides unmatched availability with

four redundant 40 Gbps stacking ports
per switch, hitless stacking failover, hot
switch replacement, and dual hotswappable power supplies and fans

••Simplifies network operations and

protects investments with the Brocade
HyperEdge® Architecture, enabling
consolidated network management
and advanced services sharing across
heterogeneous switches

Today’s enterprise networks are expected to deliver services thought
impossible just a few years ago. High-Definition (HD) video conferencing,
real-time collaboration, Unified Communications (UC), and Virtual
Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) are only a few of the applications that
organizations are deploying to enhance employee productivity, improve
customer service, and create a competitive advantage. These same
networks must also provide anytime, anywhere mobile access and scale
to meet rising user expectations. At the same time, organizations face
continued pressure to reduce costs and do more with less. More than
ever, campus networks need to quickly and efficiently evolve with the
ever-changing business environment.
Combining the Best of a Chassis
and a Stackable Switch
The Brocade® ICX® 6610 Switch redefines
the economics of enterprise networking
by providing unprecedented levels of
performance, availability, and flexibility
in a stackable form factor—delivering
the capabilities of a chassis with the
flexibility and cost-effectiveness of a
stackable switch.

Class-Leading Performance for
Today and Tomorrow
The Brocade ICX 6610 delivers wirespeed, non-blocking performance across
all ports to support latency-sensitive
applications such as real-time voice/
video streaming and VDI. Brocade ICX
6610 Switches can be stacked using four
full-duplex 40 Gbps stacking ports that
provide an unprecedented 320 Gbps
of backplane stacking bandwidth with

full redundancy, eliminating inter-switch
bottlenecks. Additionally, each switch can
provide up to eight 10 Gigabit Ethernet
(GbE) ports for high-speed connectivity
to the aggregation or core layers.

High Availability
When every second matters, Brocade ICX
6610 Switches help deliver continuous
availability to optimize the user experience.
Brocade stacking technology delivers
high availability, performing real-time
state synchronization across the stack and
enabling instantaneous hitless failover to
a standby controller in the unlikely event
of a failure of the master stack controller.
Organizations also can use hot-insertion/
removal of stack members to avoid
interrupting service when adding a
switch to increase the capacity of a stack
or replacing a swit