Megaport, a network interconnection service provider connecting 18 major data centers in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, has selected Brocade MLXe Core Routers.
Utilzing Brocade MLXe Core Routers, Megaport, which has connected over 700 Gbps in bandwidth, will roll out 100 Gbps network interconnection services across the entire Asia-Pacific region.
Megaport CEO Bevan Slattery said the company’s strategy is to drive a step-change in the network interconnection industry by rolling out 100 GbE network technology across Australia before expanding to other locations throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
Slattery believes that Brocade MLXe Ethernet platform is a fundamental enabler for the company’s services. Customers should be able to connect at 10 or 100 Gbps and mitigate the need for multiple cross-connects in a single site, said Brocade in a statement.
Once they are connected to Megaport, customers can use the fabric as a conventional Internet exchange, utilizing the Border Gateway Protocol, or they can establish Virtual Cross Connects with other organizations. In essence these are Layer 2 virtual circuits that can link two or more Megaport interfaces and can be allocated on a dynamic (non-rate-limited) or static (rate-limited) basis.
Brocade MLXe-16 chassis provides 7.68 Tbps of switching fabric capacity and can support up to 384 ports of 10 GbE or 16 ports of 100 GbE operating at full-duplex wire-speed. Brocade platform is designed from the ground up for non-stop networking and programmatic control of the network through software-defined networking (SDN
Greig Guy, country manager Australia and New Zealand for Brocade, said with Megaport publicly stating it is using 100 GbE in its core and providing 100 GbE ports in a flexible and cost-effective manner, plenty of organizations will be joining the 100G bandwagon.
