Advanced Quality of Service

•Classification, reclassification, policing, and marking the traffic prior to delivery

•Identification, classification, and reclassification based on specific criteria (ACL-based) including port, source/destination MAC address

•802.1p priority bit, source/destination IP address, Type of Service (ToS), Differentiated

Services Control Point (DSCP) fields, or the Transmission Control Protocol/User Datagram

Protocol (TCP/UDP) port

•Flexible queue servicing utilizing configurable Weighted Round Robin (WRR), Strict Priority

(SP), or combined SP/WRR

•8 hardware queues for flexible QoS management

•Ingress rate limiting—standard and extended ACL control, per VLAN, per port

•Egress rate shaping per port

System and Network Resilience

•Redundant, hot-swappable management modules (FastIron SX 800 and FastIron SX 1600)

•Redundant, hot-swappable switch fabric modules (FastIron SX 800 and FastIron SX 1600)

•Redundant, hot-swappable, load-sharing and distributed power supplies for system and PoE power

•Hot-swappable line modules

•Advanced protocols for topology resilience:

–The Brocade Metro Ring Protocol (MRP)

–Virtual Switch Redundancy Protocol (VSRP)

–Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)

•Enhanced VRRP (VRRPE)

•Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)

•Multiple Spanning Tree (802.1s)

•Per-VLAN Spanning Tree (PVST/PVRST)

•BPDU Guard and Root Guard

•STP Protect

•IEEE 802.3ad and static link aggregation

•UDLD with link error dampening; Support for single instance LACP

•Image checksum verification

•Next Boot Information

•Enhanced Digital Optical Monitoring

The following features enable the switches to be managed as IPv6 hosts or endpoints today:

•IPv6 addresses on the interfaces

•IPv6 debugs

•IPv6 Access Control Lists (ACL) to management ports

•IPv6 Web management using HTTP/HTTPS

•IPv6 logging

•Name-to-IPv6 address resolution using IPv6 DNS server

•IPv6 Ping

•IPv6 Traceroute

•IPv6 Telnet/SSH

•SNMPv3 over IPv6

•IPv6 RADIUS

•IPv6 NTP