ARX®1000 Hardware Installation Guide 2-1Chapter 2Product OverviewThis chapter provides a general overview of the Acopia ARX®1000. Topics includethe following:• “The ARX®1000” on page 2-1• “Hardware Features” on page 2-2• “Redundant Pairs” on page 2-3• “Resilient Overlay Network (RON)” on page 2-4• “Switch Management” on page 2-4• “Supported Protocols” on page 2-4The ARX®1000The Acopia Adaptive Resource Switch (ARX) enables enterprises to globally access,manage, deliver and optimize information resources. The ARX®1000 is acost-effective, small form factor Adaptive Resource Switch designed for use in smalldata centers and branch/remote offices. The ARX®1000 switch combines applicationprocessing and control, switch fabric throughput, and external interfaces into a singlefield replaceable unit (FRU) compact design. It offers the same software features asthe ARX®500 and ARX®6000, differing only in performance and scale.The ARX®1000’s Application Control Module (ACM), provides a subset of featuresand components from the ARX®6000’s Adaptive Services Module (ASM) andNetwork Services Module (NSM):• storage aggregation of multiple back-end shares into a single client volume,