7250 Interconnect Router for data center fabrics

With two fixed form-factor and three modular platform variants, the 7250 IXR series delivers massive scalability, very high throughput, and flexibility enabling rapid deployment and easy adaptation for evolving data center, cloud and WAN environments and for supporting the demanding needs of AI and HPC workloads.

The modular platforms offer:

• A high-quality, midplane-less, orthogonal direct cross-connect design, a critical design element to successfully move to future faster SERDES speeds
• An architecture without re-timers across multiple generations of ASICs driving low power and ultra-high reliability due to a component minimizing design
• A power- and cooling-optimized design
• Support for 800GE and 400GE coherent optics with support for 400GE ZR+ optics in all pluggable optics positions

The 7250 IXR-6e/10e/18e platforms implement our SR Linux NOS, a unique, ground-up architecture built around modular model-driven management.

With SR Linux, you can:

• Bring simplified operations and integrations, ultimate visibility and unmatched flexibility to your data centers
• Evolve your data center networks using essential enhanced IP routing features such as MP-BGP, EVPN and VXLAN
• Give your NetOps teams and application developers the confidence to fine-tune and customize the data center leaf-spine platforms and NOS to meet their needs

The 7250 IXR for data center fabrics are managed by our Event-Driven Automation (EDA) platform for highly reliable, simplified, and adaptable data center networks. EDA leverages Kubernetes foundation to lower risks and barriers to entry.

With EDA, you can:

• Reduce network disruptions and service downtime by driving human error in network operations to zero.
• Decrease operational effort up to 40% by simplifying data center life cycle operations.
• Easily integrate with a wide range of tools, IT service management systems, event notification systems, and cloud management platforms.