Built for the most demanding network environments brocade stacking technology makes it possible to stack up to eight brocade icx 6610 switches into a single logical chassis switch providing simple and robust expandability for future growth at the network edge or aggregation layer also this stacked virtual switch has only a single ip address to simplify management and offers transparent forwarding across a pool of up to 384 1 gbe and 64 10 gbe ports when new switches are added to the stack