Advanced Quality of Service
•Classification, reclassification, policing, and marking the traffic prior to delivery
•Identification, classification, and reclassification based on specific criteria
•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
•Egress rate shaping per port
System and Network Resilience
•Redundant,
•Redundant,
•Redundant,
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•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)
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•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
IPv6 Futureproofing
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
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•IPv6 Ping
•IPv6 Traceroute
•IPv6 Telnet/SSH
•SNMPv3 over IPv6
•IPv6 RADIUS
•IPv6 NTP
