The ER-1010 is designed as a team player, scaling from 2 to 16 interconnected members, creating one distributed fabric. These 1U member elements provide unparalleled performance and reliability throughout its distributed environment. An ER-1010 fully loaded has six 10Gb ports, which can talk to the outside world as 10Gb Ethernet or as 10Gb RAST connecting to other ER-1010s. This RAST connected switch cluster acts as one switch and can scale up to 384 1GbE ports (soon to 1536 1GbE ports) distributed between floors of a data center or between buildings in a campus of a large enterprise. Each ER-1010 can be separated up to 10km from other members and maintain all of its single-fabric capabilities.