HP 3600-24-SFP v2 EI Switch

Description

Nonblocking performance

Up to 17.6 Gbps nonblocking switching fabric provides wire-speed switching with up to 13.1 million pps throughput.

Hardware-based wire-speed access control lists

Feature-rich ACL implementation helps ensure high levels of security and ease of administration without impacting network performance.

Separate data and control paths

It keeps control separated from services and keeps service processing isolated; increases security and performance.

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)

It allows a group of routers to dynamically back each other up to create highly available routed environments.

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

It simplifies the management of large IP networks and supports client and server; DHCP Relay enables DHCP operation across subnets.

Broadcast control

It allows limitation of broadcast traffic rate to cut down on unwanted network broadcast traffic.

Advanced classifier-based QoS

It classifies traffic using multiple match criteria based on Layer 2, 3, and 4 information; applies QoS policies such as setting priority level and rate limit to selected traffic on a per-port or per-VLAN basis.

Powerful QoS feature

It supports the following congestion actions:strict priority (SP) queuing, weighted round robin (WRR), weighted fair queuing (WFQ), and WRED.

Manager and operator privilege levels

It enables read-only (operator) and read-write (manager) access on CLI and web browser management interfaces.

Command authorization

It leverages HWTACACS to link a custom list of CLI commands to an individual network administrator's login; also provides an audit trail.

Local and remote intelligent mirroring

It mirrors traffic from a switch port or to a remote switch port anywhere on the network, or mirrors ACL selected traffic to local switch port.

IEEE 802.1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)

Automated device discovery protocol provides easy mapping by network management applications.

Management VLAN

It segments traffic to and from management interfaces, including CLI/telnet, a Web browser interface, and SNMP.

Device Link Detection Protocol (DLDP)

It monitors cable between two switches and shuts down the ports on both ends if the cable is broken, preventing network problems such as loops.

Troubleshooting

Ingress and egress port monitoring enable network problem solving; virtual cable tests provide visibility into cable problems

sFlow (RFC 3176)

It provides scalable ASIC-based wire-speed network monitoring and accounting with no impact on network performance; this allows network operators to gather a variety of sophisticated network statistics and information for capacity planning and real-time network monitoring purposes.

Remote intelligent mirroring

It mirrors ingress/egress ACL-selected traffic from a switch port or VLAN to a local or remote switch port anywhere on the network.

IPv6 management

Future-proofs networking, as the switch is capable of being managed whether the attached network is running IPv4 or IPv6; supports pingv6, tracertv6, Telnetv6, TFTPv6, DNSv6, syslogv6, FTPv6, SNMPv6, DHCPv6, and RADIUS for IPv6.

Auto-MDIX

It automatically adjusts for straight-through or crossover cables on all 10/100 and 10/100/1000 ports.

Jumbo packet support

It supports up to 9216-byte frame size to improve performance of large data transfers.

Gigabit uplinks

Dual-personality ports for either 10/100/1000 or mini-GBIC SFP connectivity for increased connectivity flexibility.

IEEE 802.3af Power over Ethernet (PoE)

It provides up to 15.4 W per port to IEEE 802.3af-compliant PoE-powered devices such as IP phones, wireless access points, and security cameras.

Ethernet OAM

It provides a Layer 2 link performance and fault detection monitoring tool, which reduces failover and network convergence times.

IEEE 802.3at Power over Ethernet (PoE+) support

It simplifies deployment and dramatically reduces installation costs by helping to eliminate the time and cost involved in supplying local power at each access point location.

Loopback interface address

It defines an address in Routing Information Protocol (RIP) and OSPF that can always be reachable, improving diagnostic capability.

User Datagram Protocol helper function

It allows User Datagram Protocol (UDP) broadcasts to be directed across router interfaces to specific IP unicast or subnet broadcast addresses and prevents server spoofing for UDP services such as DHCP.

Route maps

It provides more control during route redistribution; allow filtering and altering of route metrics.

Equal-Cost Multipath (ECMP)

It enables multiple equal-cost links in a routing environment to increase link redundancy and scale bandwidth.

PIM-SSM, PIM-DM, and PIM-SM (for IPv4 and IPv6)

It support IP Multicast address management and inhibition of DoS attacks.

Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)

It's used for inter-domain multicast applications, allowing multiple PIM-SM domains to interoperate.

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)

It enables link connectivity monitoring and reduces network convergence time for RIP, OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, VRRP, and IRF.

IPv6 tunneling

It allows a smooth transition from IPv4 to IPv6 by encapsulating IPv6 traffic over an existing IPv4 infrastructure.

Access control lists (ACLs)

It provides IP Layer 2 to Layer 4 traffic filtering; supports VLAN ACL and port ACL.

Secure FTP

It allows secure file transfer to and from the switch; protects against unwanted file downloads or unauthorized copying of a switch configuration file.

Guest VLAN

It's similar to IEEE 802.1X, it provides a browser-based environment to authenticated clients.

Port security

It allows access only to specified MAC addresses, which can be learned or specified by the administrator.

Port isolation

It secures and adds privacy, and prevents malicious attackers from obtaining user information.

ICMP throttling

It defeats ICMP denial-of-service attacks by enabling any switch port to automatically throttle ICMP traffic.

STP BPDU port protection

It blocks Bridge Protocol Data Units (BPDUs) on ports that do not require BPDUs, preventing forged BPDU attacks.

DHCP protection

It blocks DHCP packets from unauthorized DHCP servers, preventing denial-of-service attacks.

Dynamic ARP protection

It blocks ARP broadcasts from unauthorized hosts, preventing eavesdropping or theft of network data.

RADIUS/HWTACACS

It eases switch management security administration by using a password authentication server.

IEEE 802.1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)

It is an automated device discovery protocol that provides easy mapping of network management applications.

LLDP-MED

It is a standard extension that automatically configures network devices, including LLDP-capable IP phones.

LLDP-CDP compatibility

It receives and recognizes CDP packets from Cisco's IP phones for seamless interoperation.

PoE allocations

It supports multiple methods (automatic, IEEE 802.3af class, LLDP-MED, or user specified) to allocate PoE power for more efficient energy savings.

Voice VLAN

It automatically assigns VLAN and priority for IP phones, simplifying network configuration and maintenance.

Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)

It is used for inter-domain multicast applications, allowing multiple PIM-SM domains to interoperate.

Multicast VLAN

It allows multiple VLANs to receive the same multicast traffic, reducing network bandwidth demand by eliminating multiple streams to each VLAN.

Green IT and power

It uses the latest advances in silicon development and shuts off unused ports to improve power efficiency.