High Speed Data Centre Switch Cum Router

C-DOT’s CTX-2000 is a 6.4Tbps High-Speed Data Center Switch cum Router product, built to address the requirements of data center operators and service providers at the aggregation and core layer of the IP network. CTX-2000 delivers carrier-class Ethernet, MPLS and IP capabilities. With a choice of multiple port configuration & speeds of 1/10/40/100G Ethernet, it is a good fit for applications like Campus and Enterprise Aggregation and Core network as well as Service provider networks as Core router. It provides backbone for carrying voice, data and video traffic through network. Owing to wide range of port speed configurations, low latency, throughput and supported features & capabilities, the product can also be deployed as a leaf or spine node in a CLOS network commonly used in a Data Centre deployment. Support for traditional IP/MPLS protocols as well as popular data center protocols like MC-LAG and EVPN-VXLAN make it a suitable product for scalable and cost-effective deployments. Router configuration and management is supported through Command Line Interface, SNMP and NETCONF/REST. CTX-2000 is a 1U, 19” rack mountable system with redundant AC Power Supply units that are field replaceable. The CTX-2000 series of Switch cum Routers run the CROS (C-DOT Router Operating System) software that provides scalable, feature-rich software to run and manage the hardware. CROS has a modular architecture with memory protection and loosely coupled Control Plane, Data Plane and Management Plane. As with any Network OS, secure remote management, persistent configuration store, user authentication and command authorization using RADIUS/TACACS+ and debug support using syslog and SNMP are available. The product is TEC-ER certified and is deployed in the Network as Leaf-Spine Switch and Border Gateway Router.