Product Information
The Summit X770 series switch is high-density, purpose-built top-of-rack switches designed to support emerging 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 40 Gigabit Ethernet- enabled servers in enterprise and cloud data centers. Summit X770 helps optimize server deployments with its 40GbE ports - each can be used natively as uplinks to BlackDiamond X8 chassis or other Summit X770 acting as spines - and each 40GbE port can connect directly to servers using 40GbE speeds or by breaking down into 10GbE connections acting as the leaf. The Summit X770 can be used as a spine or a leaf in fat tree topologies for servers with 10GbE and 40GbE ports
- 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP)
Summit X770 offers Boundary Clock (BC), Transparent Clock (TC), and Ordinary Clock (OC) for synchronizing phase and frequency and allowing the network and the connected devices to be synchronized down to microseconds of accuracy over Ethernet connection. - Low latency switching for high-frequency trading and cluster computing
Summit X770 can achieve latency less than 600 nanoseconds and supports cut-through switching to help optimize the high frequency trading application as well as latency-sensitive cluster computing. - ExtremeXOS Network Virtualization (XNV)
To further enhance data center operations, Summit X770 switches support XNV (ExtremeXOS Network Virtualization), which is natively supported in the ExtremeXOS operating system and is a licensable feature pack for Ridgeline, a network and service management application, sold separately. XNV provides insight, control and automation for virtualized data centers. - PFC
Summit X770 switches also support Priority-based Flow Control (PFC, or IEEE 802.1Qbb), which allows network traffic to be controlled independently based on Class of Service. PFC allows network traffic that requires lossless throughput to be prioritized, while other traffic types that do not require or perform better without PFC can continue as normal. - Data Center Bridging (DCB)
The Summit X770 series supports Data Center Bridging features such as Priority Flow Control (PFC), Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS) and Data Center Bridging eXchange (DCBX) for data center convergence. - OpenStack
ExtremeXOS-based switches also allow for integration with the OpenStack open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds through the Extreme Networks Quantum plugin. The plugin provides a scalable, automated, rich API-driven system that enables networking-as-a- service model managing data center interconnect solutions and large multi-tenant networks. - Enterprise core class scalability
The Summit X770 series offers more cost-effective 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches, for both small-sized core backbone and traditional three-tier network architectures. Summit X770 series can support 10 Gigabit Ethernet campus aggregations with its core class routing and switching scalability.