Introducing the ProCurve

Series 8200zl Switch

 

 

Introducing the ProCurve Series 8200zl Switch

Switch Features

the supported mini-GBICs can be hot swapped into the mini-GBIC zl Module

high performance—The 8212zl Switch has a routing/switching capacity of 576 Gbps, with a switch fabric speed of 692 Gbps and a throughput of 428 Mpps.

plug-and-play networking—all ports are enabled—just connect the network cables to active network devices and your switched network is operational.

automatic learning of the network addresses in the switch’s 64,000- address forwarding table, with configurable address aging value.

full-duplex operation available on all ports.

easy management of the switch through several available interfaces:

web browser interface—an easy to use built-in graphical interface that can be accessed from common web browsers.

console interface—a full featured, easy to use, VT-100 terminal inter- face for out-of-band switch management, or for telnet access to the switch. The console includes complete switch management through a command line interface (CLI) and a slightly reduced feature set accessible through an intuitive menu interface.

ProCurve Manager—an SNMP-based graphical interface that is used to manage your entire network, included with your new switch.

Supported by ProCurve Network Manager—an HP OpenView appli- cation that accurately displays your switch on network maps and provides a graphical interface for configuring and monitoring your switch.

support for the Spanning Tree Protocol to eliminate network loops.

support for up to 2048 IEEE 802.1Q-compliant VLANs so you can divide the attached end nodes into logical groupings that fit your business needs.

Layer 3 routing functionality:

IP static routes

RIP V1 and V2

IRDP - ICMP Router Discovery Protocol

OSPF- Open Shortest Path First

support for many other advanced features to enhance network perfor- mance, security, and control— for a description, see the Management and Configuration Guide which is on the ProCurve Web site. See page 5-1for details.

Support for IEEE 802.3af standard and pre-standard PoE devices.

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