H3C S5500V2-EI series high-performance converged Ethernet switch
The H3C S5500V2-EI series switch is a three-layer gigabit Ethernet switch product independently developed by H3C Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as H3C). It is an intelligent and manageable switch designed for network environments that require high performance, high port density, and easy installation. Developed based on the industry's excellent high-performance hardware architecture and H3C's advanced Commware V7 software platform. Supporting IPv4/IPv6 hardware dual stack and wire speed forwarding, H3C S5500V2-EI series Ethernet switches provide 10/100/1000Base-T adaptive Ethernet ports or 10GE SFP+optical ports, and can support 10GE SFP+ports and 40GE QSFP+optical ports through daughter cards, enabling customers to cope with the upcoming IPv6 era with ease. In enterprise networks, it can serve as an access device to provide gigabit to desktop applications, or as the core of small and medium-sized enterprises; In metropolitan area networks or industry users, gigabit access can be provided to end-users or converged to low-end switches downwards, and up can be converged to core switches through 10G or 40GE fiber optic or link aggregation. Support rich and comprehensive management features, simplify deployment and installation, and optimize operation and maintenance management.
The H3C S5500V2-EI series Ethernet switch currently includes the following models:
S5500V2-34S-EI: 28 10/100/1000TX Ethernet ports (including 4Combo port), 2 SFP Gigabit ports+2 1/10G BASE-X SFP PLUS 10G ports, 2 QSFP PLUS 40G ports;
S5500V2-30F-EI: 24 SFP Gigabit ports, 8 Combo ports, 4 1/10G BASE-X SFP PLUS 10G ports, 1 expansion slot;
S5500V2-54S-EI: 48 10/100/1000TX Ethernet ports, 2 SFP Gigabit ports, 2 * 1/10G BASE-X SFP PLUS 10G ports, 2 QSFP PLUS 40G ports;
S5500V2-28C-EI: 24 10/100/1000BASE-T ports (including 8 Combo ports), 4 1G/10GBASE-X SFP Plus ports, 1 Slot;
S5500V2-52C-EI: 48 10/100/1000BASE-T ports, 4 1G/10GBASE-X SFP Plus ports, 1 Slot;
Product Features
Rich network interfaces
H3C S5500V2-EI supports a variety of network interfaces, with all hosts fixed with 10 Gigabit ports, providing a cost-effective port combination to achieve a low-cost interconnection solution and meet users' 1:1 non converged network deployment needs; The host has a fixed gigabit optical and electrical combination port to meet the needs of different scenarios and businesses. At the same time, it has a large capacity 40G port to achieve high-density and high-performance port expansion capabilities, meeting the needs of large-scale network aggregation or small and medium-sized network core deployment, as well as the configuration requirements for optoelectronic hybrid networking.
The H3C S5500V2-EI all optical port switch supports expansion slots and a variety of flexible port expansion cards, including 2-port 40G, 2-port 10G SFP Plus, 8-port 10G SFP Plus, 4-port Gigabit Ethernet+6-port SFP (2 * Combo), etc., achieving high-density and high-performance port expansion capabilities, protecting user investments, and reducing network expansion costs.
IRF2 (Second Generation Intelligent Elastic Architecture)
The H3C S5500V2-EI series switch supports IRF2 (Second Generation Intelligent Elastic Architecture) technology, which connects multiple physical devices to each other and virtualizes them as a logical device. In other words, users can manage and use these multiple devices as a single device. IRF can bring the following benefits to users:
After the simplified management IRF architecture is formed, it can be connected to any port of any device to log in to a unified logical device. By configuring a single device, the effect of managing the entire intelligent elastic system and all member devices within the system can be achieved, without physically connecting to each member device to configure and manage them separately.
The various control protocols running in the logical devices formed by simplifying business IRF are also uniformly operated as a single device. For example, routing protocols are uniformly calculated as a single device. With the application of cross device link aggregation technology, they can replace the original spanning tree protocol, which can save a large number of protocol packet interactions between devices, simplify network operation, and shorten convergence time during network turbulence.
Elastic expansion can be achieved according to user needs, ensuring user investment. And the newly added devices can achieve "hot plugging" when joining or leaving the IRF architecture, without affecting the normal operation of other devices.
The high reliability of IRF is reflected in three aspects: links, devices, and protocols. The physical ports between member devices support aggregation function, and the physical connections between the IRF system and the upper and lower level devices also support aggregation function. This improves the reliability of the links through multi link backup; The IRF system consists of multiple member devices. In the event of a Master device failure, the system will quickly and automatically elect a new Master to ensure uninterrupted business through the system, thus achieving device level 1: N backup; The IRF system will have a real-time protocol hot backup function responsible for backing up the configuration information of the protocol to all other member devices, thereby achieving a 1: N protocol reliability.
For high-end switches, the improvement in performance and port density is limited by hardware architecture. The performance and port density of the IRF system are the sum of the performance of all devices and the number of ports within the IRF. Therefore, IRF technology can easily increase the switching capability and user port density of devices by several times, thereby significantly improving device performance.
Complete security control strategy
The H3C S5500V2-EI series switch supports EAD (Terminal Access Control) function, which, when combined with the backend system, can integrate terminal security measures such as antivirus and patch repair with network access control and access permission control into a linked security system. Through the inspection, isolation, repair, management, and monitoring of network access terminals, the entire network changes from passive defense to active defense, from single point defense to comprehensive defense, and from decentralized management to centralized policy management, enhancing the overall defense capability of the network against emerging security threats such as viruses and worms.
The H3C S5500V2-EI series switch supports centralized MAC address authentication, 802.1x authentication, Portal authentication, and supports user accounts IP、MAC、VLAN、 Dynamic or static binding of user identification elements such as ports, while implementing dynamic issuance of user policies (VLAN, QoS, ACL); Support real-time management of online users in collaboration with H3C's iMC system, enabling timely diagnosis and dismantling of illegal online activities.
The H3C S5500V2-EI series switch provides enhanced ACL control logic, supports high-capacity inbound and outbound port ACLs, and supports VLAN based ACL issuance, simplifying the user configuration process while avoiding wastage of ACL resources. In addition, the S5500V2-EI series will also support Unicast Reverse Path Lookup (uRPF) technology. The principle is that when a data packet is received on one interface of the device, it will reverse search the path to verify whether there is a route between the receiving interface and the source address specified in the packet, thus verifying its authenticity. If there is no such route, the data packet will be deleted, which can effectively prevent the increasingly rampant source address spoofing in the network.
The H3C S5500-EI switch supports port isolation function, which can achieve port isolation even within the same VLAN, thereby avoiding broadcast storms and viruses from spreading within the VLAN and affecting all ports. Supporting MAC address learning restrictions and secure MAC address functionality ensures that only genuine business hosts can access the network, while other newly connected hosts cannot obtain addresses and connect to the network even if they are connected to the switch. 7VM Coastline Network Security Information Station
Multi level security protection
The S5500V2-EI series switches have multiple reliability protections at the device level and link level.
The S5500V2-EI all optical port switch supports pluggable AC and DC dual power modules, as well as reliable design of pluggable dual fans. It can flexibly configure AC or DC power modules according to actual environmental needs. In addition, the whole machine also supports fault detection and alarm of power and fans, and can automatically adjust the fan speed according to temperature changes. These designs make the equipment more reliable.
In addition to device level reliability, this product also supports rich link level reliability technologies, including protection protocols such as LACP/STP/RSTP/MSTP/Smart Link/RRPP fast ring network protection mechanism, IRF2 intelligent elastic architecture, 1: N redundant backup, ring stacking, and cross device link aggregation, greatly improving network reliability. When carrying multiple services and large traffic on the network, it does not affect the convergence time of the network, ensuring the normal development of services
Rich QoS strategies
The H3C S5500V2-EI series switch supports L2 (Layer 2) to L4 (Layer 4) packet filtering function, providing flow classification based on source MAC address, destination MAC address, source IP address, destination IP address, TCP/UDP port number, protocol type, and VLAN. Provide flexible column scheduling algorithms that can be set based on both ports and queues, supporting three modes: SP (Strict Priority), WRR (Weighted Round Robin), and SP+WRR. Support port mirroring in both outbound and inbound directions, used to monitor messages on specified ports, copy data packets on ports to monitoring ports for network detection and troubleshooting.
Excellent management characteristics
The H3C S5500V2-EI series switch supports a variety of management interfaces, such as Console port, micro USB port, and external network port. It also supports SNMP v1/v2/v3 (Simple Network Management Protocol), universal network management platforms such as Open View, and iMC intelligent management center. Support CLI command line, web network management, TELNET， Make device management more convenient and support encryption methods such as SSH 2.0, making management more secure.
The H3C S5500V2-EI series switch supports SPAN/RSPAN mirroring and multiple mirroring observation ports, which can analyze network traffic to take corresponding management and maintenance measures, making previously invisible network business application traffic clear at a glance. It can provide users with various network flow analysis reports to help optimize network structure and adjust resource deployment in a timely manner.