Australia-based telecommunications company Megaport is aiming to become a leading provider of network interconnection services across the Asia-Pacific region by leveraging Brocade?s MLXe Core Routers.
The platform, implemented for Megaport by Brocade partner ASI Solutions, features the first delivery of 100 Gbps network services in the region from Brocade. The solution is based on Brocade 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) cards, which provide the routing capacity along with support.
Since its launch in July 2013, Megaport — which currently extends to 18 data centers in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane — has connected over 700 Gbps in bandwidth. With strong demand expected to continue, Megaport wants to lead the charge to roll out 100 Gbps network interconnection services across the entire Asia-Pacific region.
Once they are connected to Megaport, customers can use the fabric as a conventional Internet exchange, utilising the Border Gateway Protocol, or they can establish virtual cross connects with other organisations. 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.
Each 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.
