Benets of the EX4600 Switch
Compact soluon—The EX4600 switch supports up to 72 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports in a 1 rack unit (1 U)
chassis.
Intelligent buer management—EX4600 switches have a total of 12 MB shared buers. While 25
percent of the total buer space is dedicated, the rest is shared among all ports and is user congurable.
The intelligent buer mechanism in the EX4600 eecvely absorbs trac bursts while providing
determinisc performance, signicantly increasing performance over stac allocaon.
Energy eciency—The 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports consume less than ve was, thereby oering a low
power soluon for top-of-rack, end-of-row, and distribuon deployments.
EX4600 Hardware
The EX4600 switch is a compact 1 U model that provides wire-speed packet performance, very low
latency, and a rich set of Layer 2 and Layer 3 features. In addion to a high-throughput Packet
Forwarding Engine, the performance of the control plane running on the EX4600 model is enhanced by
the 1.5-GHz dual-core Intel CPU with 32 GB of solid-state drive (SSD) storage.
The port panel of the EX4600 features 24 xed small form-factor pluggable (SFP) or SFP+ access ports
and 4 xed quad SFP+ (QSFP+) high-speed uplinks.
Figure 1: EX4600 Port Panel with Expansion Bays
In addion, the switch has two module bays where you can install oponal expansion modules. The
EX4600 switch supports two expansion modules to increase port density:
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