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ServerIronGT C10Gx2P

ServerIronGT C10Gx2P
  • Compact (2RU) 10 GbE application switch with uncompromising performance for application acceleration, high availability and security in the 10 GbE data center
  • Data center class resiliency with redundant AC & DC power, removable fan, and hot swappable modules for always-on applications
  • Featuring 2 x 10 GbE with one open slot for upgradeable performance, expandable ports and integrated hardware-based SSL acceleration

Overview

The ServerIronGT C series 10 GbE application switches are the industry's only modular and highly compact (2RU high) application acceleration devices delivering uncompromising performance for IP, Web and VoIP services. These switches are designed with a purpose-built modular architecture to help scale business-critical applications to 10 Gbps performance. With a modular architecture packed in a compact form factor – the size of a PC appliance – the GT C Series switches make an ideal choice for space constrained data centers that require the power of 10 GbE to drive a very large volume of IP application transactions and throughput. Large enterprise and service provider organizations no longer need to trade off performance and modular scalability for space.

The ServerIronGT C10Gx2 switches feature a 3-slot chassis with redundant AC and DC power supply options, a removable fan and fully hot swappable modules and power supplies for unparalleled flexibility and resiliency to maximize application uptime. These switches combine a rich set of features including load balancing, content switching, Web acceleration & optimization, VoIP/SIP traffic management and global load balancing to deliver maximum performance, always-on availability, security and scalability for applications across geographically distributed data centers.

The switches are pre-equipped with a 2-port 10 GbE (XENPAK optics) module and the industry's highest performance WSM7 application management module. The WSM7 module features Foundry's 4th generation application processor and ASIC technology to enable high-performance delivery of emerging IP-based content, commerce and communication services. The WSM7 module features a dedicated device control processor subsystem for reliable and guaranteed device management and control, independent of the application traffic volume. Using an innovative suite of security algorithms, these switches protect server farms and applications from multi-gigabit wire-speed Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. The ServerIronGT 10-GbE switches scale to deliver up to 350,000 HTTP connections per second and SYN-flood protection against up to 10 million TCP SYN requests per second.

The ServerIronGT 10G switches feature advanced data center class architecture with built-in modularity for port expandability, performance upgradeability, and on-demand integrated SSL acceleration. A second active WSM7 module may be added to an existing system to double performance without requiring forklift replacement, or even equipment decommissioning. These switches support redundant power supplies and hot swappable modules for easy field replacement of any failed parts. The 2U high chassis also includes a removable and field replaceable fan tray.

A choice of two hardware-based SSL acceleration service modules may be added to the ServerIronGT C Series 10-GbE systems to optimize the performance of secure Web and mail transactions:

  • SRVC-SSL6-1 – Web acceleration service module featuring hardware-based SSL acceleration and Web traffic optimization at 1,600 new SSL connections per second and 16,000 concurrent SSL connections.
  • SRVC-SSL6-2 – Web acceleration service module featuring hardware-based SSL acceleration and Web traffic optimization with twice the performance of the SRVC-SSL6-1 at 3,200 new SSL connections per second and 32,000 concurrent SSL connections.

The ServerIronGT switches give organizations immense deployment flexibility by offering support for inline, direct server return (DSR), one-arm, and direct attached server designs. In one-arm and DSR modes, the ServerIronGT switch is connected to a core switch/router on which the servers are aggregated. In inline and direct attached server modes, the ServerIronGT switch utilizes advanced switching and routing functions for traffic processing in combination with the application acceleration and high availability features.

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Features

10 Gigabit C Series Platform Features

  • Compact and Resilient Design: With a modular 2 Rack Unit form factor, the ServerIron GT C Series delivers flexibility of deployment in a space saving size making it simple to replace appliance products and servers.
  • Datacenter Class Redundancy: Delivering high availability and non-stop networking is of utmost importance in network application delivery. Hardware redundancy features such as redundant and removable power supplies, removable fan tray and hot-swappable modules are critical for maximum uptime.
  • Investment Protection with Expandability and Upgradeability: ServerIron products are designed for a long service life and the ability to add additional or replacement modules in the future to take advantage of new technologies and services.
  • Integrated SSL Acceleration with Service Module Upgrade: The systems can be equipped with an SSL service module that offers support for integrated full-feature SSL acceleration in the network. Choice of one- and two-processor SSL service modules is available for different performance demands.

10 Gigabit C Series Product Features

Traffic Management

  • Extensive Layer 7 Features: Rich application intelligence, including URL, cookies, HTTP headers, XML tags, SSL session IDs, request type, and SIP/VoIP traffic, to deliver application scalability, security and acceleration.
  • Superior Connection Performance: ServerIron switches deliver unprecedented application transaction performance scalable up to 350,000 connections per second.
  • Advanced Load Balancing: A rich set of methods to load balance client traffic to multiple servers to increase availability and scalability of critical applications.
  • Sophisticated Health Monitoring from Layer 2 through 7: Customizable server and application health monitoring permits rapid failure detection and service recovery to maintain maximum uptime.
  • Hardware and Software Based Hitless Failover: High availability features such as Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol, multi-switch session mirroring and redundant management modules with session synchronization maximize uptime in the most critical environments.

Web Acceleration

  • Integrated Hardware SSL Acceleration: With a choice of management and service modules with embedded SSL acceleration, the ServerIron platform delivers superior performance for secure Web transactions and other SSL-enabled applications. Modules can be on-demand to minimize up front capital cost.
  • HTTP Connection Multiplexing for Server Optimization: ServerIron's HTTP connection multiplexing eliminates the need for servers to sustain large connection load. Server connection load reduction increases service performance and ultimately the cost of server upgrades.
  • Clientless Bandwidth Optimization with Compression: Using standards-based clientless browser compression to transparently condense content provided by the server on return, the ServerIron reduces bandwidth utilization and increases download times.
  • End-to-End SSL Support: For high security applications, the Web accelerators can terminate SSL, process content in the Layer 4-7 engine, and re-encrypt traffic to the back-end servers for total security and confidentiality.
  • Centralized Certificate Management: Provides added security, easy manageability and investment savings from multiple certificates. Client side certificates and revocation lists prevent illegal use and abuse of SSL applications.

Security

  • Superior DoS/DDoS Protection: Wire-speed multi-gigabit rate DDoS/DoS attack protection, including protection against SYN/ACK flood attacks up to 3.6 million TCP SYN packets per second for uncompromising application performance with robust protection.
  • Granular Application Level Rate Limiting: ServerIron switches can control amount of traffic a particular client is sending to a server, which prevents abuse and attacks while increasing the availability of applications without blocking legitimate traffic.
  • E-Mail Spam Mitigation: The switches feature advanced policy-based SPAM mitigation with. E-mail SPAM can be blocked, permitted or redirected based upon millions of good, bad or unknown IP reputation policies.
  • Advanced Web Firewall: The Web Firewall features fully inspect Web transactions to protect Web servers from buffer overflow, cross-site scripting, cookie poisoning, forceful browsing and other attacks. Server cloaking hides server and application identity to prevent targeted attacks.

Global Load Balancing

  • Global Server Load Balancing (Multi-Site Redundancy): The ServerIron switches can be enabled for this application with the premium TrafficWorks OS version to offer multi-site redundancy and scalability for IP and Web applications using standards-based DNS and IP routing.
  • Total Transparency to Existing DNS Solution: Works with the existing DNS servers left in place with standards-based interoperability to protect the investment of the current infrastructure. The ServerIron offers increased and independent scaling of the global DNS performance.
  • Intelligent Traffic Distribution and Persistence: With advanced site load distribution features such as weighted and proximity metrics, and adaptable site specific configurations can be created to provide content localization and efficient traffic delivery.
  • Secure Communication between Sites: The ServerIron utilizes a secure GLSB protocol with authentication and encryption to prevent attacks against the infrastructure global data center infrastructure.

Voice Over IP / SIP Load Balancing

  • Advanced SIP/VoIP Intelligence and Protocol Support: As more voice services become standardized on SIP, the importance of high availability increases. The ServerIron software is “SIP Aware” for maximum voice availability.
  • SIP Proxy/Registrar Load Balancing and Persistence: The ServerIron protects the SIP servers from unwanted traffic and load balances REGISTER and INVITE messages to multiple registrar servers while keeping persistence via the Call ID.
  • SIP Specific L7 Health Monitoring: The ServerIron has SIP aware health monitoring and will sends periodic SIP messages to the servers to ensure that only servers with responsive application are used for client traffic.

Advanced L2/3

  • Integrated Full-Function Layer 2/3 Switching and Routing: Industry's most comprehensive Layer 4-7 switching platform with advanced Layer 2/3 switching and routing for cost-effective and simplified network design with device consolidation. Wire-speed layer 2/3 performance for traffic not targeted to the application servers.
  • sFlow Network Monitoring: Industry's only Layer 4-7 switch with hardware-assisted standards-based and always-on sFlow network traffic monitoring on application flows and Layer 2/3 switched traffic.
  • High Performance Stateful IP NAT: Deploying network address translation on the ServerIron protects servers and reduces load on the high cost firewalls.

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Specifications

  ServerIronGT C10Gx2P
Management Module* WSM7
Concurrent Sessions 15,000,000
Application Throughput 6 Gbps
L4 Connection Performance (CPS) 170,000
Layer 7 Connection Performance (CPS) 60,000
DDoS & DoS (SYN Flood) Protection (SYN/Sec) 5 million
Pre-Equipped Number of 10/100 Ports N/A
Pre-Equipped Number of Gigabit Ports N/A
Pre-Equipped Number of 10 Gigabit Ports 2
Maximum Number of 10/100 ports N/A
Maximum Number of Gigabit ports 16
Maximum Number of 10 Gigabit Ports 4
Maximum number of ports 18
Base Layer 3 Features Supports servers on different subnets from that of Virtual IP address
Advanced Layer 3 Features (Premium TrafficWorks OS Upgrade Required) OSPF, RIPv2, VRRP, VRRP-E, Static Routing
Physical dimensions 3.5"h x 17.5"w x 22"d
Weight Not to exceed 40 lbs (20 kg)
Power Requirements Single (1) Power Supply: Input Voltage and Current Power Supply Rating -70 to -40 VDC: 17A 100 to 120 VAC (auto-ranging): 8A 200 to 240 VAC (auto-ranging): 4A AC line frequency: 47-63 Hz

* Dual Active WSM7 Management Modules may be used for Doubling L4, L7 & DoS Performance and Session Capacity

Optional Service Module Specifications

  SRVC-SSL-1 SRVC-SSL-2
SSL Transactions per Second* 8,500 17,000
SSL Bulk Throughput* 500 Mbps 1 Gbps
Concurrent SSL Sessions* 16,000 32,000
SSL Certificates 512 512

* Dual Active SSL Service Modules may be used for Doubling SSL Performance and Capacity

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System Options

Part Number Description
ServerIron C Series 10 Gigabit Base Platforms
SI-GT-C10GX2P 3-slot 2U High ServerIron chassis equipped with one WSM7, one AC power supply, and one 2-port 10 Gigabit J-B10Gx2 line module
ServerIron C Series 10 Gigabit System Options
WSM7 WSM7 Web Switch Management Module. Use for spare or dual-active modules for redundancy and double performance
SRVC-SSL6-1 Web acceleration service module with one processor featuring hardware-based SSL acceleration and Web traffic optimization.
SRVC-SSL6-2 Web acceleration service module with two processors featuring hardware-based SSL acceleration and Web traffic optimization with twice the performance of the SRVC-SSL6-1
RPS8 Redundant power supply for the 3-slot 2U high chassis
B3000-FAN Replaceable FAN for the 3-slot 2U high chassis
ServerIron C Series 10 Gigabit Module Options
J-B2Gx 2-port 1000Base-X (mini-GBIC) JetCore line Module
J-B4Gx 4-port 1000Base-X (mini-GBIC) JetCore line Module
J-BxG 8-port 1000Base-X (mini-GBIC) JetCore line Module
J-B16Gx 16-port 1000Base-X (mini-GBIC) JetCore line Module
J-B16GC 16-port 100/1000Base-T (RJ45) JetCore line Module
B10Gx1 1-port 10-Gigabit Ethernet Base Module (optics required)
B10Gx2 2-port 10-Gigabit Ethernet Base Module (optics required)
ServerIron C Series 10 Gigabit - 10-Gigabit Ethernet Optics
10G-XNPK-SR 850nm serial XENPAK plug-in transceiver (SC), target range of 300m over MMF
10G-XNPK-LR 1310nm serial pluggable XENPAK optic only (SC) for up to 10km over SMF
10G-XNPK-ER 1550nm serial pluggable XENPAK optic only (SC) for up to 40km over SMF
ServerIron C Series 10 Gigabit Mini GBIC Options
E1MG-SX 1000Base-SX mini-GBIC optic, MMF, LC connector
E1MTG-SX 1000Base-SX mini-GBIC optic, MMF, MTRJ connector
E1MG-LX 1000Base-LX mini-GBIC optic, SMF, LC connector
E1MG-LHA 1000Base-LHA mini-GBIC optic, SMF, LC connector
E1MG-LHB 1000Base-LHB mini-GBIC optic, SMF, LC connector, 150km Maximum reach
E1MG-TX 1000BASE-TX Mini-GBIC Copper, RJ-45 Connector
ServerIron C Series 10 Gigabit Premium Software Upgrade
SI-GT-TW-PREM ServerIron chassis Premium TrafficWorks GSLB and Layer-3 Upgrade

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