Physical Port •24-Port 10/100/1000Base-T Gigabit RJ-45 with IEEE 802.3af / 802.3at PoE Injector •4 100/1000Base-X mini-GBIC/SFP slots, shared with Port-21 to Port-24 •2 HDMI-like 5GbE Stacking interfaces •RS-232 DB9 console interface for Switch basic management and setup
Power over Ethernet •Complies with IEEE 802.3af / 802.3at Power over Ethernet End-Span PSE •Up to 23 IEEE 802.3af devices powered •Up to 11 IEEE 802.3at devices powered •Supports PoE Power up to 30.8 watts for each PoE port •Auto detect powered device (PD) •Circuit protection prevents power interference between ports •Remote power feeding up to 100m •PoE Management –Total PoE power budget control –Per Port PoE function enable/disable –PoE Port Power feeding priority –Per PoE port power limit –PD classification detection
Stacking •Hardware stack up to 16 units and 384 Gigabit ports •Single IP address stack management •Stacking architecture supports Chain and Ring mode •Plug and Play connectivity •Mirror across stack •Link Aggregation groups spanning multiple switches in a stack •Hardware learning with MAC table synchronization across stack
Layer 2 Features •Prevents packet loss with back pressure (half-duplex) and IEEE 802.3x pause frame flow control (full-duplex) •High performance of Store-and-Forward architecture, broadcast storm control and runt/CRC filtering eliminates erroneous packets to optimize the network bandwidth •Supports VLAN –IEEE 802.1Q Tagged VLAN –Up to 255 VLANs groups, out of 4041 VLAN IDs –Provider Bridging (VLAN Q-in-Q) support (IEEE 802.1ad) –Private VLAN Edge (PVE) •Supports Spanning Tree Protocol –STP, IEEE 802.1D (Spanning Tree Protocol) –RSTP, IEEE 802.1w (Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol) –MSTP, IEEE 802.1s (Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol), spanning tree by VLAN –BPDU Guard •Supports Link Aggregation –802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) –Cisco ether-channel (static trunk) –Maximum 12 trunk groups, up to 16 ports per trunk group –Up to 32Gbps bandwidth (Duplex Mode) •Provides port mirror (many-to-1) •Port mirroring to monitor the incoming or outgoing traffic on a particular port
Quality of Service •Ingress Shaper and Egress Rate Limit per port bandwidth control •4 priority queues on all switch ports •Traffic classification: –IEEE 802.1p CoS –TOS / DSCP / IP Precedence of IPv4/IPv6 packets –IP TCP/UDP port number –Typical network application •Strict priority and Weighted Round Robin (WRR) CoS policies •Supports QoS and In/Out bandwidth control on each port •Traffic-policing policies on the switch port •QoS Control List Wizard makes QoS creation and configuration easier and more quickly •DSCP remarking •Voice VLAN
Multicast •Supports IGMP Snooping v1, v2 and v3 •Querier mode support •IGMP Snooping port filtering and throttling •Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR)
Security •IEEE 802.1X Port-based / MAC-based network access authentication •Built-in RADIUS client to co-operate with the RADIUS servers •TACACS+ login users access authentication •RADIUS / TACACS+ users access authentication •IP-based Access Control List (ACL) •MAC-based Access Control List •Source MAC / IP address binding •DHCP Snooping to filter un-trusted DHCP messages •Dynamic ARP Inspection discards ARP packets with invalid MAC address to IP address binding •IP Source Guard prevents IP spoofing attacks •Auto DoS rule to defend DoS attack •IP address access management to prevent unauthorized intruder
Management •Switch Management Interfaces –Console / Telnet Command Line Interface –Web switch management –SNMP v1, v2c, and v3 switch management –SSH / SSL secure access •Four RMON groups (history, statistics, alarms, and events) •IPv6 IP Address / NTP / DNS management •Built-in Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) client •BOOTP and DHCP for IP address assignment •Firmware upload/download via HTTP / TFTP •DHCP Relay and Relay Option 82 •User Privilege levels control •NTP (Network Time Protocol) •Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) Protocol •Cable Diagnostic technology provides the mechanism to detect and report suspicious cabling issues •Reset button for system reboot or reset to factory default •PLANET Smart Discovery Utility for deploy management •ICMPv6
