Building out a new datacenter based on Brocade MLX-32 chassis. There will be many of them throughout the campus - but there are (4) in the primary cores. (2) in the MDF Head-end and (2) in the DC Head-end.

The DC Head is copper base using 8-port MRJ cards. (1 MRJ port = 6 RJ45 jacks) Here and Here is a pic of the MLX with cabling starting. Here you can see the top half of a DCHE MLX with its 10G fiber uplinks. There are 16 10G uplinks that mesh the DCHE MLX switches with the MDF-HE MLX units.

The DCHE MLX units push 1433 1Gb ports EACH to the DC - for a total of 2866 1Gb ports divided among the 75 racks in the DC. The MLX-32 is fully non blocking, and with the 80GB trunks running to the MDF-HE core, there is some serious bandwidth. Here you can see both DCHE-MLX-32s and (4) ADX-10000 load balancers - The fiber cans in the middle (two boxes with tape) are the patching uplinks to the MDF cores which are in a different row.

Here you can see the bottom half of one of the MDF-MLX units. Each MDF device is configured with 116 fully non-blocking 10G ports. The Yellow patch cable you see in the pic is attached to a high-end SPF module with 80Km capable optics running a 10G connection across a private 25Km dark fiber campus tie.

Here You can see the begining of the SAN head-end based on the DCX. The entire DC has armored fiber running to every rack from these DCX which will allow any server with HBAs to tie directly to the fabric and utilize the more than half a petabyte of SAN storage available. The overall DC relies heavily on Blade-chassis based servers....