Border Routers are the demarcation between the enterprise networks and the service provider networks (Internet) where the ISP connections terminate. Basic requirements include support for a full Internet routing table, mainstream routing protocols BGP and OSPF, ACLs, BGP Internet peering scale, device management and entry level DDoS protection. With increasing demands video streaming and other high bandwidth intensive applications, the need for advanced scale, fast convergence, application level visibility, security and cross-domain automation are key considerations for future-proofing and investment protection.
The routing solutions are optimized in size and deliver cost-effectively the scale and performance needed to address the explosive growth in network bandwidth, devices, and services – today and well into the future.
The continued growth in IPv4 and IPv6 traffic and to support the ongoing growth of the BGP Internet Routing table that eventually need to program into forwarding information (FIB) in the router, the Extreme Routing solutions are ideally prepared with the support of 4M plus Internet routes.
When ISPs and Enterprises are peering with single-home, dual-home or multiple BGP peering, the convergence is always a challenge with internet route scale. Extreme Networks solutions support BGP PIC for the core and the edge and help with faster data plane convergence during failover conditions. BGP PIC Core reduces the convergence time when a core router fails and the IGP has to find a new best path. BGP PIC Edge reduces convergence time when an edge router fails and BGP has to switch to a different PE router.
A modern network infrastructure demands greater visibility. This includes dynamic, rich and scalable classification and actions at multiple layers from networks to workloads. The Extreme’s Insight Architecture with a dedicated 10 GbE data path, included on a switch or router, helps organizations achieve pervasive visibility throughout the network to quickly and efficiently identify problems, accelerate mean-time-to-resolution, and improve overall service levels. Application Telemetry allows to analyze application flows from every part of the network without requiring dedicated probes.
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are becoming significantly more frequent and volumetric, attackers send high amount of malicious traffic or request to the targeted network, server and services to overwhelm its bandwidth and then slow down the application and affect the business. Extreme Networks Router support standard BGP Flowspec to provide a very granular approach to DDoS mitigation. BGP Flowspec matches a particular flow and installs dynamic actions that can either drop traffic, remarking or redirect for further examination, or police to a desired rate.
Extreme Fabric Automation enables simple setup, plug-n-play day 0 and day 1 operational network tasks. With cross domain automation, and leveraging a workflow based approach to IT, the compute, storage, services and network domains come together to enable automated workflows for mundane tasks and free time and save money. Popular open source technologies, industry best practices, and a thriving technical community for peer collaboration and innovation are driving the new norm in development teams.
A global fortune 500 food products company needed to consolidate their growing demands for connectivity to their ISP, while also maintaining a large switching capacity in a small form factor. Extreme Networks provided the SLX 9640 solution to deliver future proof route table scale and maximize the switching capacity to their data centers.
Trunk Networks, an Internet Service Provider for business and consumers as well as an IT provider for business services such as hosted desktop, VoIP and cloud services is using the SLX Border Routing technology to enhance their most recent Leetline offering: a service targeted at gamers. Leetline is a low latency fibre connection service to homes which is fully supported by an Extreme SLX infrastructure.
A mid-size service provider needed to update their internet deployment for homes and businesses and expand their geographical footprint across 11 states on the East Coast of the United States of America. The Extreme SLX 9850 solution provided the ideal pay-as-you-grow architecture to grow with the increasing customer demands.
