FSH-17M Overview

Enabling Efficient, Scalable, and Agile Cloud Service Delivery
Purpose-built on a scalable, distributed architecture, Brocade ADX application delivery solutions provide the flexibility and scale to meet the demands of service-driven data centers. Whether an organization requires dedicated hardware, hardware-based multitenancy, or a virtual platform, the Brocade ADX Series provides a comprehensive application delivery portfolio that accelerates application performance, increases application availability, and improves application security.

The Brocade ADX Series of application delivery switches is used by the world's most demanding service provider networks and large enterprise data centers. With a comprehensive portfolio and features, the Brocade ADX Series enables service provider and enterprise organizations to scale network performance, deploy services more efficiently, and differentiate service offerings without compromising on performance and reliability.

Enabling Efficient, Scalable, and Agile Cloud Service Delivery
Purpose-built on a scalable, distributed architecture, Brocade ADX application delivery solutions provide the flexibility and scale to meet the demands of service-driven data centers. Whether an organization requires dedicated hardware, hardware-based multitenancy, or a virtual platform, the Brocade ADX Series provides a comprehensive application delivery portfolio that accelerates application performance, increases application availability, and improves application security.

Brocade ADX Management and Orchestration
Run your applications efficiently at the speed of business with the Brocade ADX series
Minimize TCO: Helps reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and rapidly deploys application delivery services by running the Brocade Virtual ADX (vADX™) Application Delivery Switch on industry-standard x86 servers

Maximize infrastructure utilization: Consolidates application delivery hardware infrastructure with Brocade ADX hardware-based virtualization—reducing CapEx and OpEx by up to 75percent
Grow on-demand: Allows on-demand performance and capacity scalability with a pay-as-you-grow licensing model for fixed platforms and fully interchangeable modules for chassis systems
Speed up service creation: Simplifies the deployment of new and differentiated revenue streams to increase Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) through the Brocade OpenScript engine
Optimize SSL transactions: Secures Web communications through SSL while eliminating the SSL burden from application servers through hardware-accelerated 2048-bit SSL encryption
Mitigate application attacks: Provides reliable protection against many forms of network and application attacks with best-in-class SYN proxy, DDoS protection, and DNS deep packet inspection
Transition to IPv6 seamlessly: Transitions seamlessly to the growing IPv6-based world through comprehensive IPv6 server load balancing, routing, and gateway services
Automate application delivery services: Helps reduce operational costs by enabling the automation and orchestration of application delivery with the Brocade Application Resource Broker
Centralize management: Enables control of application management and provisioning through rich XML APIs, simplifying integration with third-party, or homegrown orchestration, and automation tools

Build your heterogeneous data center deployment models
Purpose-built hardware for a physical infrastructure build-out:
Brocade ADX 1000 Series: Compact 1U fixed form platform
Brocade ADX 4000 Series: Chassis-based 4U modular system
Brocade ADX 10000 Series: Chassis-based 10U modular system
Hardware-based virtualization for a shared, multitenant environment:
Multiple, fully isolated virtual Brocade ADX instances to run on on a single Brocade ADX system when the the physical Brocade ADX system is deployed in a shared multitenant mode
Virtual platform for a virtualized data center and cloud environment:
Brocade Virtual ADX provides the ultimate flexibility and portability in a software networking platform

FSH-17M Specifications