Product Specifications
Features
SIMPLIFIED MANAGEABILITY
•Dual image and dual configuration file storage provides backup
•Intuitive
•Extensive user manuals with examples
•Easy to use,
•Remote telnet management or secure shell access using SSH over IPv4 and IPv6
•Secured file upload using SFTP, or SCP
•Human readable ASCII based config files for offline editing and bulk configuration
•IGMPv1/v2/v3 snooping to optimize multicast traffic
•BootP/DHCP client allows
•DHCP relay to forward client requests to a DHCP server
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•Auto MDI/MDIX automatically configures transmit and receive signals to support straight through and crossover cabling
•SNMPv1/v2/v3
•Integration with SNMP manager Alcatel- Lucent OmniVista for network wide management
•Supports RFC 2819 RMON group
•Network Time Protocol (NTP) for network wide time synchronization
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•802.1AB – Link Layer Discovery Protocol with MED extentions
•Port based mirroring for troubleshooting and lawful interception, supports four sessions with multiple
•Policy based mirroring – Allows selection of the type of traffic to mirror by using QoS policies
•Remote port mirroring
•Port monitoring feature that allows capture of Ethernet packets to a file, or for
•sFlow v5 support to monitor and effectively control and manage the network usage
•Local (on the flash) and remote logging (Syslog)
•GVRP for
•Auto QoS for switch management traffic as well as traffic from
•UDLD for detecting one way connections
HIGH AVAILABILITY
•Ring Rapid Spanning Tree optimized for ring topology to provide less than 100ms convergence time
•802.1w rapid recovery spanning tree allows subsecond failover to redundant link
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•802.1D spanning tree for loop free topology and link redundancy
•802.1s multiple spanning tree
•Fast forwarding mode on user ports to bypass
•Static and 802.3ad dynamic link aggregation that supports automatic configuration of link aggregates with other switches
•Broadcast storm control
•Redundant 1:1 power provided by the
•BPDU blocking – automatically shuts down switch ports being used as user ports if a spanning tree BPDU packet is seen. Prevents unauthorized
•Priority queues: eight
CONVERGENCE/ TRIPLE PLAY
•Traffic prioritization:
•Bandwidth management: flow based bandwidth management, ingress policing/egress shaping and port based egress shaping
•Queue management: Random Early Detect/Discard (RED), configurable
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ADVANCED SECURITY
•802.1X
•IEEE 802.1X with group mobility
•IEEE 802.1X with MAC based authentication, group mobility or “guest” VLAN support
•MAC-based authentication for non-802.1X host
•Authenticated VLAN that challenges users with username and password and supports dynamic VLAN access based on user
•Captive Portal – A new Access Guardian Policy that uses embedded web portal for user authentication.*
•PKI authentication for SSH access
•Support for host integrity check and remediation VLAN
•Support for
•Learned Port Security (LPS) or MAC address lockdown allows only known devices to have network access preventing unauthorized network device access
•RADIUS and LDAP admin authentication prevents unauthorized switch management
•TACACS+ client allows for authentication authorization and accounting with a remote TACACS+ server
•Secure Shell (SSH), Secure Socket Layer (SSL) for HTTPS access and SNMPv3 for encrypted remote management communication
•Access control lists to filter out unwanted traffic including denial of service attacks; Flow based filtering in hardware
•Support of Microsoft Network Access Protection (NAP)**
* Contact for avaliabliity
**NAP will be supported when available.
•Switch protocol security
•MD5 for RIPv2, OSPFv2 and SNMPv3
•SSH for secure CLI session with PKI support
•SSL for secure HTTP session
•DHCP Snooping, DHCP IP Spoof protection
•Enmbedded traffic anomaly detection
•ARP poisoning detection
RESIDENTIAL METRO
•DHCP Option 82 – configurable relay agent information
•QinQ (Vlan stacking)
•Ethernet OAM compliant with 802.1ag version 7.0
L3 ROUTING PROTOCOLS (IPV4)
IP Routing
•Static routing
•RIP v1 & v2
•OSPF v2
•BGP v4
•ISIS Multicast
•IGMP v1, v2 & v3 snooping
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•DVMRP
Network Protocol
•TCP/IP stack
•ARP
•DHCP relay
•Generic UDP relay per VLAN Resilience
•VRRP v2
L3 ROUTING PROTOCOLS (IPV6)
IP Routing
Static routing
•RIP ng
•OSPF v3 Multicast
•MLD snooping
•PIM-SM
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•TCP/IP stack
•DHCP relay (including generic UDP relay)
•ARP Resilience
•VRRP v3
LAYER-3 ROUTING (IPX)
IP Routing
•Static routing
•RIP/SAP
POWER OVER ETHERNET
•IEEE 802.3af (supported on all POE chassis)
STACKING
•Two 10 Gbps
•Stacking capacity: 40 Gbps