Key features

Enhanced Performance (EP) technology

• Extended port density to enhance system capabilities and overall investment protection
• sFlow (RFC 3176) wire-speed traffic accounting and monitoring
• Jumbo frames on Gigabit and 10 Gigabit ports allow high-performance remote backup and disaster recovery services
• Increased on-board memory and flash capacity for more robust management capabilities

10 Gigabit Ethernet

• Simplify data center configurations and increase backbone throughput

T-Flow traffic management

• Simultaneously process access control lists (ACLs), perform policy-based routing (PBR), perform network address translation (NAT), and collect and export statistics for NetFlow-based accounting and billing, all at wire speed

Dynamic IP ACLs and MAC filters

• Provide an additional level of security via dynamic port configuration to 802.1X ports based on user profile information sent by the Authentication Server

Automatic routing switch failover

• Provides hot standby redundancy using standards based VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol) or SRP (Standby Routing Protocol)

Up to 345 million pps performance

• Provides the high performance required by large networks

Layer 4 prioritization

• Delivers QoS (Quality of Service) for delay-sensitive applications

IP/IPX/AppleTalk routing

• Provides routing of IP and IPX at media speed

IP multicast routing

• Provides IGMP, DVMRP, PIM-dense, PIM-sparse, and PIM snooping mode support in routed environments to control multicast traffic

Unparalleled security

• Protection against denial-of-service attacks; Secure Shell, Secure Copy, wire-speed rate limiting, and user authentication (with AAA, RADIUS, and TACACS+) prevent unauthorized network access and downtime

Policy-based VLANs

• Allow you to assign VLANs on a port, protocol, subnet, or IEEE 802.1Q tagged basis

Hardware-based wire-speed access control lists

• Feature-rich ACL implementation (selective ACL logging, scalability, and syntax compatibility) to ensure high levels of security and ease of administration without impacting network performance

Port trunking

• For higher switch-to-switch and switch-to-server throughput and link-level redundancy, with support for standards-based link aggregation (IEEE 802.3ad)

Next-generation Spanning Tree functionality

• Single-instance STP, Per VLAN Spanning Tree (PVST), Per VLAN Group STP (PVGST) based on IEEE 802.1s, and Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol based on IEEE 802.1w all provide improved availability and scalability for Spanning Tree-based networks