The Brocade Fast Iron Workgroup Switch (WS) Series is a complete line of one rack unit (1RU) enterprise-class Layer 2 / Layer 3 switches. The Fast Iron WS Series extends the Brocade broad edge-to-core networking portfolio with a value line of intelligent edge switches designed for small & medium businesses (SMB), branch offices, & distributed enterprises with changing business needs, without compromising performance & reliability. Featuring standards-based Po E, the Fast Iron WS delivers the scalability, quality of service assurance, resilience, & Vo IP-readiness needed to implement a high-value converged solution at the network edge. Combining Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Po E, & intelligent fault detection with a feature rich, secure, highly reliability solution, the Fast Iron WS Series offers maximum productivity & investment protection. This cost-effective, high-performance compact solution enables the deployment of applications such as IP telephony, wireless access, Web TV, video surveillance, building management systems, triple play
- voice, video & data, & remote video kiosks. The Fast Iron WS Series can also be deployed in metro area networks connecting branch offices with 1 Gb E uplinks. In this environment, important features include Brocade Metro Ring Protocol for building resilient ring-based topologies, VLAN stacking, & multicast capabilities such as IGMP v 1/v 2/v 3 & MLD v 1/v 2 snooping for controlling multicast traffic in high- bandwidth content distribution applications. The Fast Iron WS Series supports hardware-based embedded s Flow for real-time traffic visibility & analysis, network protection, & manageability to the end-users PCs. s Flow enabled at the edge takes full advantage of the intelligent edge switch capabilities providing dynamic control by correlating data collected from s Flow & applying ACL, rate limiting, & Qo S at the edge, not at the core. This analysis mitigates security threats at the edge.