Brocade ICX 7450-48F
48-Port 100/1000 Mbps SFP Switch

Features:

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 with a new, high-speed module.

The Brocade ICX 7450 also offers a lowcost entry point. By providing the flexibility of a stackable switch, the Brocade ICX 7450 saves organizations from having to invest in a costly chassis upfront and tie up valuable capital. Instead, they can buy a single Brocade ICX 7450 Switch to get started and add new Brocade ICX 7450 Switches to the stack as their business grows.

Integrating High-Performance IPsec Service

As organizations move to a hybrid cloud architecture with geographically dispersed business partners, concerns about security breaches are increasing. Many organizations seek to better meet compliance and protect their data in transit—whether across the Internet or the enterprise network. Brocade offers an industry-first stackable switching solution that delivers encryption from the wiring closet, providing a cost-effective way to ensure data security and integrity across the premises without needing to purchase dedicated encryption appliances.

The Brocade ICX 7450 switch with the integrated IPsec VPN service module consolidates network switching and encryption to provide unprecedented VPN deployment flexibility and cost savings. By initiating an IPsec tunnel from the Brocade ICX 7450 for transporting selected traffic, organizations save the time and reduce the costs from having to install and manage encryption software on individual computers or deploy purposebuilt encryption appliances.

The Brocade ICX 7450 Service Module provides hardware-based acceleration for IPsec VPNs using Advanced Encryption Standards (AES). It leverages programmable hardware technology to future-proof data protection, enabling more capabilities to be added as business needs evolve.

Brocade Campus Fabric Technology: Extending Options and Scalability

Brocade Campus Fabric technology, offered for Brocade ICX 7250*, 7450, and 7750 Switches, extends network options and scalability. It integrates premium Brocade ICX 7750, midrange Brocade ICX 7450, and entry-level Brocade ICX 7250 Switches, collapsing network access, aggregation, and core layers into a single logical switch. This logical device shares network services while reducing management touch points and network hops through a single-layer design spanning the entire campus network. These powerful deployments deliver equivalent or better functionality than large, rigid modular chassis systems, but with significantly lower costs and smaller carbon footprints.

Brocade ICX switches support a distributed chassis deployment model that uses standards-based optics and cabling interface connections to help ensure maximum distance between campus switches—up to 10 km—and minimum cabling costs. This gives organizations the flexibility to deliver ports wherever they are needed on campus at a fraction of the cost.

The distributed chassis design futureproofs campus networks by allowing networks to easily and cost-effectively expand in scale and capabilities.

Flexible, Long-Distance Stacking for the Most Demanding Enterprise Environments

Brocade Ethernet switch stacking technology makes it possible to stack up to 12 Brocade ICX 7450 Switches together into a single logical switch using standard QSFP+ or SFP+ stacking ports. This allows the Brocade ICX 7450 to deliver a class-leading 960 Gbps of aggregated stacking bandwidth and offer simple and robust expandability for future growth at the network edge.

A selection of standard QSFP+ or SFP+ copper cables or standard QSFP+ or SFP+ optics can be used to stack Brocade ICX 7450 Switches together, enabling stacking over distance and thereby eliminating the need for stacked switches to be colocated in the same wiring closet. This stacked logical switch also has only a single IP address to simplify management and offers transparent STP-free traffic forwarding and shared Link Aggregation Groups (LAG) across a pool of up to 576 1 GbE ports and 48 10 GbE ports. When new switches join the stack, they automatically inherit the stack’s existing configuration file, enabling plug-and-play network expansion.

Brocade stacking technology also delivers high availability, enabling instantaneous hitless failover to a standby stack controller if the master stack controller fails. In addition, organizations can use hotinsertion and removal of stack members to avoid interrupting network services.

Up to 12 Brocade ICX 7450 switches can be stacked together using two full-duplex QSFP+ 40 Gbps ports that provide a fully redundant backplane with 960 Gbps of stacking bandwidth.

Simplified, Open-Standards-based Management and Monitoring

The Brocade ICX 7450 provides simplified, standards-based management capabilities that help organizations reduce administrative time and effort while securing their networks.

sFlow-based “Always-On” Network Monitoring
sFlow is a modern, standards-based network export protocol (RFC 3176) that addresses many of the challenges that network managers face today. By embedding sFlow hardware support into the Brocade ICX 7450, Brocade delivers an “always-on” technology that operates with wire-speed performance. sFlow dramatically reduces implementation costs compared to traditional network monitoring solutions that rely on mirrored ports, probes, and line-tap technologies. Moreover, sFlow gives organizations full, enterprise-wide monitoring capability for every port in the network.

Simplified, Automated Deployment with Auto-Provisioning
The Brocade ICX 7450 supports Zero Touch Provisioning, simplifying deployment with a truly plug-and-play experience. Organizations can use this feature to automate IP address and feature configuration of the switches without requiring a highly trained network engineer onsite. When the switches power up, they automatically receive an IP address and configuration from DHCP and Trivial File Transport Protocol (TFTP) servers. At this time, the switches can also automatically receive a software update to be at the same code revision as currently installed switches.

Open-Standards Management
The Brocade ICX 7450 includes an industry-standard Command Line Interface (CLI) and supports Secure Shell (SSHv2), Secure Copy (SCP), and SNMPv3 to restrict and encrypt management communications to the system. In addition, support for Terminal Access Controller Access Control System (TACACS/TACACS+) and RADIUS authentication helps ensure secure operator access.

Out-of-Band Management
The Brocade ICX 7450 includes a 10/100/1000 Mbps RJ-45 Ethernet port dedicated to out-of-band management, providing a remote path to manage the switches, regardless of the status or configuration of the data ports.

SDN-Enabled Programmatic Control of the Network

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a powerful new network paradigm designed for the world’s most demanding networking environments and promises breakthrough levels of customization, security, and efficiency. The Brocade ICX 7450 enables SDN by supporting the OpenFlow 1.3 protocol , which facilitates communication between the Brocade SDN Controller and the underlying network infrastructure.

In today’s increasingly mobile world, organizations are looking to OpenFlow and SDN to achieve programmability in the campus LAN. The business needs driving SDN deployment are improved Quality of Service (QoS), enhanced security, and management simplification. With new policies such as BYOD significantly impacting campus networks, SDN is a powerful solution that better prioritizes and forwards traffic based on the context of a flow and to easily enforce granular policies for regulatory compliance or security reasons.

With hybrid-port mode on the Brocade ICX 7450 and all other Brocade ICX 7000 series switches, organizations can run traditional protocols and OpenFlowdirected flows at the same time. The Brocade ICX family supports the Brocade SDN Controller and other OpenDaylightbased controllers, enabling organizations to benefit from programmatic control through gradual transition of their network into the controller domain without disruption. Brocade ICX 7450 hardware support for OpenFlow ensures these traffic flows at line-rate speeds.

Unified Wired/Wireless Network Management with Brocade Network Advisor

Managing enterprise campus networks continues to become more complex due to the growth in services that rely on wired and wireless networks. Services such as Internet, e-mail, video conferencing, real-time collaboration, and distance learning all have specific configuration and management requirements. At the same time, organizations face increasing demand to provide uninterrupted services for high-quality voice and Unified Communications (UC), wireless mobility, and multimedia applications.

To reduce complexity and the time spent managing these environments, the easy-to-use Brocade Network Advisor discovers, manages, and deploys configurations to groups of IP devices. By using Brocade Network Advisor, organizations can configure Virtual LANs (VLANs) within the network, manage wireless access points, and execute commands on specific IP devices or groups of IP devices. sFlowbased proactive monitoring is ideal for performing network-wide troubleshooting, generating traffic reports, and gaining visibility into network activity from the edge to the core. Brocade Network Advisor also centralizes the management of the entire family of Brocade wired products and Open Mobility partners’ wireless products.

Ready for Next-Generation Wireless Technology

Between the phenomenal expansion of wireless networks and the fastpaced evolution of enterprise wireless technology, wired networks are being pushed to their limits. At the same time, the current lifecycle for wireless network technologies is much shorter than it is for wired Ethernet networks, meaning that today’s wireless networks will likely be upgraded two or three times over the life of the wired network. It is therefore critical that organizations choose a wired network solution capable of supporting nextgeneration wireless technology.

The Brocade ICX 7450 is designed to handle next-generation 802.11ac Wave 2 wireless access points. The Brocade ICX 7450-32ZP offers 8×2.5 GbE ports to connect multigigabit wireless access points. Moreover, the switch’s non-blocking architecture offers up to 240 Gbps of uplink bandwidth with up to 3×40 GbE uplink ports, ensuring smooth end-to-end traffic flow from the wireless edge to the core.

EEE Power Savings

The Brocade ICX 7450 Switch supports the IEEE 802.3az standard for Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE), reducing power consumption during periods of low utilization. Ports are placed into a low power mode when no data is being transmitted.

Enterprise-Class Availability

When every second matters, Brocade ICX 7450 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 switch that needs servicing.

In addition to stack-level high availability, Brocade ICX 7450 Switches include system-level high-availability features, such as dual hot-swappable, loadsharing, and redundant power supplies. The modular design also has dual hot-swappable fan trays. These features provide another level of availability for the campus wiring closet, all in a compact form factor.

Support for PoH to Power NextGeneration Edge Devices

The Brocade ICX 7450 can deliver both power and data across network connections, providing a single-cable solution for the latest edge devices. In addition to supporting the Power over Ethernet (PoE/PoE+) standards, the Brocade ICX 7450 also supports Power over HDBaseT (PoH). This new, high power standard delivers up to 95 watts per port through a standard Ethernet cable, simplifying the wiring of next-generation Ethernet-connected devices such as large HD displays, video surveillance equipment, and VDI thin terminals, enabling data and power to be carried by a single Ethernet wire. The PoE/PoE+ and PoH capabilities reduce the number of required power receptacles and power adapters while increasing reliability and wiring flexibility.

With a 1,500-watt power budget per switch (with two power supplies), the Brocade ICX 7450 24- and 48-port PoE models can supply up to Class 4 PoE+ power (30 watts) to every port and PoH power (95 watts) on eight dedicated ports.

Full Layer 3 Capabilities

Brocade ICX 7450 Switches offer powerful IPv4 and IPv6 Layer 3 switching capabilities. Organizations can use optional premium Layer 3 features (available as an option)—such as IPv4/IPv6 OSPF and RIP routing, Policy-Based Routing (PBR), VRRP, and Protocol-Independent Multicast (PIM)—to reduce complexity and enhance the reliability of large enterprise networks by bringing Layer 3 capabilities to the network edge and/or aggregation layer. Premium Layer 3 capabilities include BGP routing, enabling remote offices to connect Brocade ICX 7450 Switches to service provider networks. Premium routing capabilities can be added to any Brocade ICX 7450 Switch model through software licensing.

Data Center ToR Switch for 1 GbE and 10 GbE Server Connectivity

Thanks to its class-leading 10 GbE and 40 GbE port count, the Brocade ICX 7450 is a great solution as a Top-of-Rack (ToR) switch in a mixed 1 GbE/10 GbE server connectivity environment. It is designed to fit in server racks, consuming only one rack unit and offering dual integrated power supplies and fan assemblies with front-to-back or back-to-front airflow for flexible cooling options. In data center environments where most servers have 1 GbE and some 10 GbE network interfaces, the Brocade ICX 7450 provides a compact and cost-effective 1 GbE/10 GbE ToR switch. In this configuration some of the Brocade ICX 7450 10 GbE or 40 GbE ports can be used to connect to the data center aggregation switches.

Warranty

The Brocade ICX 7450 Switch is covered by the Brocade Assurance Limited Lifetime Warranty

Maximum Operational Efficiency and Investment Protection

To further improve operational efficiency, Brocade ICX 7450 Switches come with 90 days of free technical support from the Brocade Technical Assistance Center and free software updates. With these capabilities, organizations gain peace of mind while freeing up IT budget and resources to grow their businesses.

Brocade Global Services

Brocade Global Services has the expertise to help organizations build scalable, efficient cloud infrastructures. Leveraging 20 years of expertise in storage, networking, and virtualization, Brocade Global Services delivers worldclass professional services, technical support, network monitoring services, and education, enabling organizations to maximize their Brocade investments, accelerate new technology deployments, and optimize the performance of networking infrastructures.

Affordable Acquisition Options

Brocade Capital Solutions helps organizations easily address their IT requirements by offering flexible network acquisition and support alternatives. Organizations can select from purchase, lease, Brocade Network Subscription, and Brocade Subscription Plus options to align network acquisition with their unique capital requirements and risk profiles.

Maximizing Investments

To help optimize technology investments, Brocade and its partners offer complete solutions that include professional services, technical support, and education.

Specifications:

	24 or 48 RJ-45 Ports		24, 32, or 48 PoE+ Ports			48 SFP Ports
	ICX 7450-24	ICX 7450-48	ICX 7450-24P	7450-32ZP	ICX 7450-48P	ICX 7450-48F
Switching capacity (data rate, full duplex)	288 Gbps	336 Gbps	288 Gbps	328 Gbps	336 Gbps	336 Gbps
Forwarding capacity (data rate, full duplex)	214 Mpps	250 Mpps	214 Mpps	244 Mpps	250 Mpps	250 Mpps
Fixed ports: 10/100/1000 Mbps RJ45	24	48	24	24	48
Fixed ports: 100/1000 Mbps SFP						48
Fixed ports: 100 Mbps/1000 Mbps/ 2.5 Gbps RJ45				8
Modular slots	3	3	3	3	3	3
Modular ports: 1 GbE SFP (max.)	4	4	4		4	4
Modular ports: 1/10 GbE SFP/SFP+ (max.)	12	12	12	12	12	12
Modular ports: 1/10GBASE-T RJ45 (max.)	12	12	12	12	12	12
Modular ports: 40 GbE QSFP+ (max.)	3	2	3	2	2	2
Modular service: IPsec VPN	Supported	Supported	Supported		Supported	Supported
Maximum PoE ports (15.4 W)			24 (1 AC PSU)	32 (1 AC PSU)	48 (1 AC PSU)
Maximum PoE+ ports (30 W)			24 (1 AC PSU)	32 (2 AC PSU)	48 (2 AC PSU)
Maximum PoH ports (95 W)			8 (1 AC PSU)	8 (1 AC PSU)	8 (1 AC PSU)
Advanced IPv4/v6 L3 routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP)	With license	With license	With license	With license	With license	With license
Aggregated stacking bandwidth	960 Gbps	960 Gbps	960 Gbps	960 Gbps	960 Gbps	960 Gbps
Stacking density (maximum switches in a stack)	12	12	12	12	12	12
Maximum stacking distance (distance between stacked switches)	10 km	10 km	10 km	10 km	10 km	10 km
Power
Power inlet (AC)	C14	C14	C14	C14	C14	C14
Input voltage / frequency	AC: 100 to 240 VAC @ 50 to 60 Hz | DC: 40 to 60 VDC
Power supply rated maximum output (AC)	2x250 W	2x250 W	2x1,000 W	2x1,000 W	2x1,000 W	2x250 W
Power supply rated maximum output (DC)	2x510 W	2x510 W	2x510 W	2x510 W	2x510 W	2x510 W
PoE power budget (AC) (two AC power supplies)			1,500 W	1,500 W	1,500 W
PoE power budget (DC) (two DC power supplies			516 W	516 W	516 W
Switch power draw‡ (25°C) Idle (no PoE load) 10% traffic§ (full PoE load) 100% traffic§ (full PoE load)	63 W 64 W 69 W	93 W 95 W 100 W	75 W 911 W 916 W	90 W 922 W 930 W	106 W 930 W 935 W	119 W 120 W 123 W
Switch heat dissipation‡** (25°C) Idle (no PoE load) 10% traffic§ (full PoE load) 100% traffic§ (full PoE load)	215 BTU/hr 218 BTU/hr 235 BTU/hr	317 BTU/hr 324 BTU/hr 341 BTU/hr	256 BTU/hr 259 BTU/hr 276 BTU/hr	307 BTU/hr 314 BTU/hr 330 BTU/hr	362 BTU/hr 369 BTU/hr 386 BTU/hr	406 BTU/hr 409 BTU/hr 420 BTU/hr
Environment
Weight‡	6.4 kg (14.11 lb)	6.5 kg (14.33 lb)	6.9 kg (15.21 lb)	7.2 kg (15.87 lb)	7.2 kg (15.87 lb)	6.8 kg (14.99 lb)
Dimensions	440 mm (17.323 in.) W × 393.7 mm (15.5 in.) D × 43.7 mm (1.720 in.) H; 1U
Acoustics‡ (25°C, ISO 7779)	46 dBA	47 dBA	49 dBA	49 dBA	49 dBA	46 dBA
MTBF‡ (25°C)	628,369 hours	571,520 hours	466,576 hours	448,376 hours	444,360 hours	576,586 hours
Temperature	Operating temperature: −5°C to 50°C/23°F to 122°F Storage temperature: −40°C to 70°C/−40°F to 158°F
Humidity	Operating relative humidity: 10% to 90% at 50°C, non-condensing Non-operating relative humidity: 5% to 95% at 70°C, non-condensing
Altitude	Operating altitude: 10,000 ft. (3,000 m) maximum Storage altitude: 39,000 ft. (12,000 m) maximum
Capabilities
Connector options	10/100/1000 Mbps, 2.5 Gbps, 10 Gbps 10GBASE-T ports: RJ-45 100 Mbps SFP ports 1 Gbps SFP ports 10 Gbps SFP+ ports 40 Gbps QSFP+ ports Out-of-band Ethernet management: 10/100/1000 Mbps RJ-45 Console management: Mini-USB RS232 serial port (Mini-B plug) Storage: USB port, standard-A plug
Maximum MAC addresses	32,768
Maximum VLANs	4,096
Maximum STP (spanning trees)	254
Maximum routes (in hardware)	15,168 (IPv4) 5,120 (IPv6)
Trunking	Maximum ports per trunk: 16 Maximum trunk groups: 256
Maximum jumbo frame size	9,216 bytes
QoS priority queues	8 per port
IPsec performance	Maximum throughput: 10 Gbps, full-duplex Maximum tunnels: 20
Multicast Groups	8192
VRF	16
Regulatory Compliance
Electromagnetic emissions	FCC Class A (Part 15); EN 55022/CISPR-22 Class A; VCCI Class A; ICES-003 Electromagnetic Emission; AS/ NZS 55022; EN 61000-3-2 Power Line Harmonics; EN 61000-3-3 Voltage Fluctuation and Flicker; EN 61000-6-3 Emission Standard
Safety	CAN/CSA-C22.2 NO. 60950-1-07; UL 60950-1; IEC60950-1; EN 60950-1:2006 Safety of Information Technology Equipment; EN 60825-1 Safety of Laser Products
Immunity	EN 61000-6-1 Generic Immunity and Susceptibility; EN 55024 Immunity Characteristics; EN 61000-4-3 Radiated, Radio Frequency, Electromagnetic Field; EN 61000-4-4 Electrical Fast Transient; EN 61000-4-5 Surge; EN 61000-4-6 Conducted Disturbances Induced by Radio-Frequency Fields; EN 61000-4-8 Power Frequency Magnetic Field; EN 61000-4-11 Voltage Dips and Sags
Environmental regulatory compliance	RoHS-compliant (6 of 6); WEEE-compliant
Vibration	IEC 68-2-36, IEC 68-2-6
Shock and drop	IEC 68-2-27, IEC 68-2-32

‡ Switch includes one AC power supply, one fan, one 4×10 GbE SFP+ uplink module, two QSFP+ stacking module.
§ Traffic load on all ports connected with maximum possible PoE/PoE+ loads (if equipped).
** PoE power not included in switch heat dissipation figures since the heat is not dissipated at the switch.

Switch Features:

Options:

Brocade ICX 7450 Port and Service Module Options

Five different optional modules are offered for the Brocade ICX 7450. These modules are interchangeable and can be inserted in the three modular slots within the Brocade ICX 7450.^†

Brocade ICX 7450 Port and Service Module Options
Brocade ICX7400-4X1GF Module	4-port 100 Mbps/1 GbE SFP
Brocade ICX7400-4X10GF Module	4-port 1/10 GbE SFP/SFP+ for uplink or stacking
Brocade ICX7400-4X10GC Module	4-port 1/10 GbE 10GBASE-T copper
Brocade ICX7400-1X40GQ Module	1-port 40 GbE QSFP+ for uplink or stacking
Brocade ICX7400-SERVICE-MOD Module	Service module for IPsec VPN encryption

Five different optional port modules are offered for the Brocade ICX 7450 with a choice of 1 GbE SFP, 10 GbE SFP/SFP+, 10GBASE-T, and 40 GbE QSFP+ options and an IPsec VPN service module.

Brocade ICX 7450 Power Supply Options

The Brocade ICX 7450 offers a selection of PoE/non-PoE and AC/DC power supply options with front-to-back or back-to-front airflow cooling options. The DC power supply can be installed in either PoE or no-PoE switches.

Brocade ICX 7450 Power Supply Options
RPS15-E power supply	Non-PoE 250 W AC with front-to-back airflow
RPS15-I power supply	Non-PoE 250 W AC with back-to-front airflow
RPS16-E power supply	PoE 1,000 W AC with front-to-back airflow
RPS16-I power supply	PoE 1,000 W AC with back-to-front airflow
RPS16DC-E power supply	PoE 510 W DC with front-to-back airflow
RPS16DC-I power supply	PoE 510 W DC with back-to-front airflow

The Brocade ICX 7450 offers a choice of 250 W AC, 1,000 W AC, or 510 W DC power supply options. All power supplies are available with front-to-back or back-to-front airflow.

† The Brocade ICX7400-1X40GQ module cannot be installed in the front-facing slot of the 48-port Brocade ICX 7450 models (Brocade ICX 7450- 48, 7450-48P, 7450-48F, 7450-32ZP). The Brocade ICX7400-4X1GF module cannot be installed in the rear slots of any model of the Brocade ICX 7450 Switch and is not supported by the Brocade ICX 7450-32ZP model.

Documentation:

Download the Brocade ICX 7450 Switches Datasheet (PDF).