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Built for the enterprise backbone, the chassis-based, high-capacity X-Pedition router combines wire-speed routing at gigabit rates, pinpoint control of application flows, and superior routing capacity to meet the needs of today and tomorrow's networks. The high-capacity X-Pedition 8600 delivers full-function, wire-speed IP/IPX routing - both unicast (IP: RIP, OSPF, BGP, IPX: RIP) and multicast (IGMP, DVMRP). Powered by a non-blocking 32 Gigabit per second switching fabric, the X-Pedition router's throughput exceeds 30 million packets per second and can be configured with up to 240 10/100 ports or 60 Gigabit Ethernet ports. Enterprise backbone requirements are met through massive table capacity and redundancy. The X-Pedition router is also the industry's first Gigabit switching router with WAN capabilities. The WAN interfaces extend the benefits of the X-Pedition to remote locations, in so doing, they enable Enterasys to provide application-level control from the desktop to the WAN edge, all at wire speed. Enterasys' architecture and new technology solutions enable the X-Pedition to route or switch packets based on the application-level information in Layer4 or on the traditional source-destination information in Layer3. This application-level control allows the X-Pedition to guarantee security and end-to-end quality of service (QoS) while maintaining wire speed. QoS policies may encompass all the applications in the network, groups of users, or relate specifically to a single host-to-host application flow. The X-Pedition 8600's rich functionality is made easy to use by integration with NetSight Management applications. The X-Pedition is fully standards-based and completely interoperable with existing networking equipment.
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