H3C S5560X-EI series Ethernet switch

H3C S5560X-EI is the latest development of Gigabit speed Layer 3 Ethernet switch. This powerful and highly secure switch series is built based on industry-leading high performance hardware architecture and H3C Comware V7 platform. It supports diversified services, high capacity GE access port as well as high density 10GE uplink, which meet the requirements for high density campus access and high performance aggregation.

 

H3C S5560X-EI series Ethernet switch includes the following models:

 

S5560X-34S-EI: 28 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet ports, 4 SFP (Combo) ports, 4 10G/1G BASE-X SFP+ ports; 2 40G QSFP+ ports;

S5560X-54S-EI: 48 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet ports, 4 10G/1G BASE-X SFP+ ports; 2 40G QSFP+ ports;

S5560X-30C-EI: 24 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet ports, 8 SFP (Combo) ports, 4 10G/1G BASE-X SFP+ ports; 1 expansion slot; 2 fan module slots; 2 power module slots;

S5560X-54C-EI: 48 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet ports, 4 10G/1G BASE-X SFP+ ports; 1 expansion slot; 2 fan module slots; 2 power module slots;

S5560X-30C-PWR-EI: 24 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet ports, 4 10G/1G BASE-X SFP+ ports; 1 expansion slot; 2 fan module slots; 2 power module slots;

S5560X-54C-PWR-EI: 48 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet ports, 4 10G/1G BASE-X SFP+ ports; 1 expansion slot; 2 fan module slots; 2 power module slots;

S5560X-30F-EI: 24 SFP ports; 8 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet (Combo) ports; 4 10G/1G BASE-X SFP+ ports; 1 expansion slot; 2 fan module slots; 2 power module slots;

S5560X-54F-EI: 48 SFP ports; 4 10G/1G BASE-X SFP+ ports; 1 expansion slot; 2 fan module slots; 2 power module slots;

 

FEATURES:

High scalability and high port density

· S5560X-EI has 4 fixed 10GE ports with expansion slots, supporting multiple types of interface cards: 2-port 10GBaseT / SFP+; 8-port 10G SFP+ card; 2-port 40G QSFP+ card. The switch supports up to 12 10G ports or 2 40G ports. The scaling flexibility and the high port density satisfy the requirements for hybrid configuration of copper ports and fiber ports at the distribution layer in large sized networks or at the core layer in SMB sized networks.

 

VXLAN (Virtual eXtensible LAN) technology

· Virtual eXtensible LAN (VXLAN) is a MAC-in-UDP technology that provides Layer 2 connectivity between distant network sites across an IP network. VXLAN enables long-distance virtual machine and data mobility and is typically used in data centers and the access layer of campus networks for multitenant services. The H3C implementation of VXLAN supports automatic VXLAN tunnel establishment with EVPN.

 

Open Application Architecture

· In H3C open application architecture (OAA), the switch can accommodate high-performance OAP modules to offer dedicated services such as firewall, IPS, or load balancing in addition to conventional forwarding services. By installing OAP modules, customers can use the switch as a multiservice device without having to buy separate service appliances, such as a firewall device.

 

High-performance IPv4/IPv6 service capabilities

· The S5560X-EI switch series comes with IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack platform which provides sophisticated IPv4/IPv6 solutions by supporting multiple tunnels, IPv4/IPv6 Layer 3 routing protocols, multicasting, and policy-based routing. The S5560X-EI switch series is a mature commercial IPv6 product that has passed the IPv6 network access certification of the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the IPv6 Ready Phase II certification.

 

Intelligent Resilient Framework 2 (IRF2)

· H3C S5560X-EI switch series is pre-built with Intelligent Resilient Framework 2 (IRF2). IRF2 provides the following benefits:

 

· High scalability: With IRF2, plug-n-play device aggregation can be achieved by adding one or more switches into the IRF2 stack and enabling IRF2 stacking on the new device. New devices can be managed with a single IP, and upgraded at the same time to reduce network expansion cost.

 

· High reliability: The IRF2 patented 1:N backup technology allows each slave device in the IRF2 stack to serve as the backup of the master, creating control and data link redundancy, as well as uninterrupted layer-3 forwarding. This improves the reliability, avoids unplanned business downtime and serves to improve overall performance. When the master device fails, traffic remains uninterrupted.

 

· Load balancing: IRF2 supports cross-device link aggregation, upstream and downstream can be connected to more than one physical link, which creates another layer of network redundancy and boosts the network resource utilization.

 

· Availability: H3C Implements IRF2 through standard Forty Gigabit Ethernet (40GE) or Ten Gigabit Ethernet (10GE) ports which allocates bandwidth for business and application access and reasonably splits local traffic and upstream traffic. IRF2 rules can not only be obeyed within and across the rack, but also across the LAN.

 

Intelligent Resilient Framework 3.1 (IRF 3.1) technology

Intelligent Resilient Framework 3.1 technology (IRF 3.1) is implemented based on IEEE 802.1BR. It integrates lower-layer devices (PEXs) such as access devices with a higher-layer IRF fabric (parent fabric) to provide high-density, low-cost connectivity at the access layer. PEXs can be managed and configured from the parent fabric as if they were interface modules on the parent fabric.

 

IRF 3.1 brings the following benefits:

 

· Single point of management - accessible at a single IP address on the network. IP address can be used to log in through any network port to configure and manage all the devices in the system.

 

· Unified security policy - enforces the same security policy, avoiding the policy conflicts that typically occur when the network devices are configured one by one.

 

· Simplified network topology - combines the access and distribution layers, streamlining the conventional three-layer network model to two layers and making cabling easier.

 

· Simplified service deployments – act as a single node for IP services, routing protocols, VLANs, and other services. Services can be deployed in the same way as a single device. This significantly reduces service deployment complexities and the risks of inadvertent deployment errors when numerous devices are involved.

 

· Easy scalability and maintenance - enables plug-and-play of PEXs without network topology changes and automatically pushes configuration and software from the parent fabric to the PEXs. IRF 3.1 also reduces the numerous points of failure into one, improving the efficiency in troubleshooting.

 

Software Defined Network (SDN)

· Software Defined Network (SDN) is an innovative network architecture that simplifies network management and reduces maintenance complexity by separating network control layer and network forwarding layer through Openflow. More importantly, it implements flexible network flow control and provides a well-defined network platform for core network application and innovation.

 

· The S5560-EI network switch series supports a large network flow table. Combined with H3C SDN controller, it can easily implement a two-layer network architecture and quickly add functions in existing network in order to drastically reduces network management complexity while substantially lowers network maintenance cost.

 

Comprehensive security control policies

· H3C S5560X-EI switch series supports innovative single-port multi-authentication function, the access authentication modes supported by different clients are different. For example, some clients can only perform MAC addresses Authentication (such as the printer terminal), and some user host for 802.1X authentication, and some user hosts only want to access through the Web portal authentication. In order to flexibly adapt to the multi-authentication requirements of the network environment, the S5130S-EI switch series support single-port multi-authentication unified deployment.

 

· H3C S5560X-EI switch series supports SSH V2 (Secure Shell V2) to secure information security, and strong authentication protect the Ethernet network switch from attacks such as IP address spoofing and clear text interception.

 

· ARP attack and ARP virus are major threats to LAN security, the S5560X-EI switch series comes with diverse ARP protection functions such as ARP Detection to challenge the legitimacy of client, validate the ARP packets, and set a speed limit for ARP to prevent ARP swarm attacks from targeting CPU.

 

· H3C S5560X-EI switch series supports EAD (End User Admission Domination) function. Once working with the iMC (intelligent Management Centre) system, EAD integrates terminal security policies, such as anti-virus and patch update, into network access control and access right control policies to form a cooperative security system. By checking, isolating, updating, managing, and monitoring access terminals, EAD changes passive, single point network protection to active, comprehensive network protection, and changes separate management to centralized management, enhancing the network capability for preventing viruses, worms, and new threats.

 

Multiple high availability measures

· The S5560X-EI switch series supports high availability at device level and link level.

 

· The S5560X-EI switch series adopts hot swappable dual-power supply and dual fan module design, which allows you to configure AC or DC power supplies as needed. The switch can detect faults in power supplies and fans, and will if any such faults are found, respond with an alarm. It can automatically adjust fan speed according to the temperature.

 

· Apart from device level redundancy, the S5560X-EI series switch also provides diverse link redundancy support such as LACP/STP/RSTP/MSTP/Smart Link protocols. It supports IRF2 and 1: N redundancy backup as well as cross-device link aggregation which substantially increases network reliability.

 

Abundant QoS policies

· The S5560X-EI switch series supports packet filtering at Layer 2 through Layer 4, and traffic classification based on source MAC addresses, destination MAC addresses, source IP addresses, destination IP addresses, TCP/UDP port numbers, protocol types, and VLANs. It supports flexible queue scheduling algorithms based on ports and queues, including strict priority (SP), weighted round Robin (WRR), SP+WRR and WDRR. The S5560X-EI switch series enables committed access rate (CAR) with the minimum granularity of 8 kbps. It supports port mirroring in the outbound and inbound directions, to monitor the packets on the specific ports, and to mirror the packets to the monitor port for network detection and troubleshooting.

 

Professional Anti-lighting function

· The S5560X-EI switch series uses built-in lighting protection technology and supports industry leading switch port 6KV anti-lighting capability, which can greatly reduce the rate of lightning damage to the equipment.

 

Enhanced PoE+ capability

· H3C S5560X-EI switch series supports 802.3af/802.3at PoE function, single port can provide maximum 30w, providing power to connected devices, such as IP phones, wireless APs, and high power cameras. H3C S5560X-EI switch series supports multiple PoE modules for flexible PoE output selections, single switch can provide total 1680W PoE power, 30w per port and total 48 ports PoE+ function.

 

Excellent manageability

· The S5560X-EI switch series supports abundant management ports, such as the console port, mini-USB and the out-of-band network management port. It supports the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) v1/v2/v3, Open View, IMC, CLI, Web-based NMS and Telnet allowing easy device management. It also supports SSH2.0 to provide better protection management.

 

· The S5560X-EI switch supports SPAN/RSPAN/ERSPAN mirroring, and multiple mirroring ports so that network traffic can be analyzed to carry out corresponding management and maintenance measures and traffic of network services and applications is visible. The S5500X-EI switch provides network stream analysis reports, which help users to promptly optimize the network structure and adjust resource deployment.

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