Description

Standard Compliance

• IEEE 802.3 10BASE-T Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3u 100BASE-TX Ethernet
• IEEE 802.ab 1000BASE-T Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3z 1000BASE-X
• IEEE 802.3x flow control
• IEEE 802.1d spanning tree protocol
• IEEE 802.1w rapid spanning tree protocol
• IEEE 802.1s multiple spanning tree protocol
• IEEE 802.1p class of service, priority protocols
• IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging
• IEEE 802.1X port authentication
• IEEE 802.3ad LACP aggregation
• IEEE 802.3az EEE (ES3500-8PD)
• IEEE 802.3at (ES3500-24HP)
• IEEE 802.3af (ES3500-24HP/8PD)

Traffic Management and QoS

• Broadcast storm control
• IEEE 802.1p with 8 hardware priority queues per port for different types of traffic
• IEEE 802.1Q tag-based and port-based VLAN
• Weighted Fair Queuing (WFQ)/WRR/SPQ scheduling algorithm
• Policy based rate limiting
• Policy based bandwidth control
• Port based traffic shaping
• Policy-based traffic mirroring
• IGMP snooping (v1, v2, v3)
• IGMP filtering
• Jumbo frame support (9K Bytes) for high performance data backup or recovery services
• Support GVRP, automatic VLAN member registration
• Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR)
• Q in Q
• Selected Q in Q

Link Aggregation

• IEEE 802.3ad LACP link aggregation compliant
• Support static manually port trunking
• Up to 8 aggregation groups, 8 ports/per group randomly selected
• VLAN trunking

Network Resilience

• IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) provides rapid convergence of spanning tree independent of spanning-tree timer
• IEEE 802.1s multiple spanning tree provides link availability in multiple VLAN environments by allowing multiple spanning trees
• MRSTP- Multiple RSTP

User Security and Authentication

• IEEE 802.1X authentication
• IP source guard (static IP/MAC binding, DHCP snooping, ARP inspection)
• IP subnet VLAN & VLAN isolation
• Limiting MAC number per port
• Loop guard prevents a switch from being affected by another switch which is already in a looping status
• MAC filtering per port secures access to each port
• MAC freeze
• Port security, port isolation, port mirroring
• Static MAC forwarding per port: only specified MAC addresses can access the network (port security)
• Wire speed filtering per MAC/IP/TCP/UDP
• Wire speed mirroring per MAC/IP/TCP/UDP
• Wire speed rate limiting per MAC/IP/TCP/UDP
• GVRP, automatic VLAN member registration
• Guest VLAN
• CPU protection
• PPPoE option 82

Network Administration Security

• SSH v1/v2
• SSL
• RADIUS accounting
• TACACS+ authentication, accounting
• NTP, daylight saving

IPv6 Host

• IPv6 over Ethernet (RFC 2464)
• IPv6 Addressing Architecture (RFC 4291)
• Dual stack (RFC4213)
• ICMPv6 (RFC4884)
• Path MTU (RFC 1981)
• Minimum Path MTU size of 1280 (RFC 5905)
• Encapsulation for minimum PMTU of 1500
• Neighbor Discovery (RFC4861)
• DHCPv6 Relay/Client

Network Management

• Supports ZyXEL iStacking™, up to 24 switches can be managed by one IP address
• Intuitive Web-based management with all features configurable
• Text-based configuration profile for massive deployment
• Telnet CLI (Cisco like)
• SNMP v1, v2c, v3
• SNMP trap group
• RMON four RMON groups 1, 2, 3, 9 (history, statistics, alarms, and events) for enhanced traffic management, monitoring, and analysis
• Out-of-Band management: RS-232c local console
• Firmware upgrade, configuration backup/restore via ftp
• Alarm led indicator for early warning of hardware troubles
• Send system trap to trap server
• DHCP relay, DHCP relay per VLAN, DHCP relay option 82, DHCP client
• Port mirroring: supports source/destination/both port mirroring
• IEEE 802.3ah Ethernet Operations, Administration and Management (OAM)
• sflow

Intelligent ACL (L2/L3/L4 Access List Control)

• Based on port
• Based on MAC + VLAN ID
• Based on IP address (source/destination)
• Based on protocol type
• Based on TCP/UDP port number

MIB Information

• RFC1213 MIB II
• RFC1493 Bridge MIB
• RFC1643 Ethernet MIB
• RFC1757 RMON group 1, 2, 3, 9
• RFC2011 IP MIB
• RFC2012 TCP MIB
• RFC2013 UDP MIB
• RFC2233 ifVHC Packet Group
• RFC2674 VLAN MIB
• RFC2925 PING-MIB and TRACEROUTE-MIB
• ZyXEL private MIB
• Management Information Base (MIB) for IP (RFC4293)
• IP Forwarding Table MIB (RFC4292)
• Management Information Base for Transmission Control Protocol (RFC4022)
• Management Information Base for User Datagram Protocol (RFC4113)

Safety Agency Certification

• EN 55022: 2006+A1: 2007
• EN 61000-3-2
• EN 61000-3-3
• EN 55024
• AS/NZS CISPR 22: 2009
• FCC Part 15 (Class A, Class B)
• ICES-003
• BSMI (CNS13438, CNS14336)
• EN 60950-1