Superior Management

An industry-standard command-line interface (CLI), accessed

through the console port or Telnet/SSH, provides a familiar user

interface and command set for users to manage the switch.

An embedded user-friendly web interface helps users to quickly

and simply configure switches.

The ECS5500-12T/12P supports SNMPv1,2c,3 and four-group

RMON. The switch provides a complete private MIB for the

configuration of most functions via the SNMP protocol.

Administrators can backup and restore firmware and

configuration files via TFTP or FTP. The switch also provides the

configuration of auto-provision for ease of use in large

deployments.

AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting) via RADIUS,

TACACS+, enables centralized control of the switches. Access

rights can be authorized per user and account for all actions

performed by administrators.

Service Monitoring and Management

The ECS5500-12T/12P supports IEEE 802.1ag and ITU-T Y.1731,

allowing service providers to monitor end-to-end services,

identify connectivity and performance issues, and isolate

problems from a remote location without dispatching an

engineer onsite.

The switch also provides the capability to monitor service

availability, delay, jitter, and dropped packets for verifying SLA

conformance (for billing purposes) and providing advance

indication of performance degradation before a service outage

occurs.

Virtual Private Networks

The ECS5500-12T/12P supports Layer 2 VPNs by using Q-in-Q

functions, where an 802.1Q tag from a customer VLAN (called

CE-VLAN ID) is encapsulated in a second 802.1Q tag from a

service-provider network (called an SP-VLAN ID). The switch

supports rewriting the VLAN tag of egress traffic when the

ingress traffic is tagged.

The switch also supports Layer 2 Protocol Tunneling for STP,

CDP, VTP, PVST+, with Cisco-proprietary multicast address

(01-00-0c-cd-cd-d0) replacement.

Reliability and Energy Efficiency

The design of the ECS5500-12T/12P incorporates high energy

efficiency in order to reduce the impact on the environment. The

Green Ethernet power-saving features and smart-fan design

significantly reduce the power consumption.

Private VLANs (traffic segmentation per port) isolate edgeports

to ensure userprivacy.

DAI (Dynamic ARP Inspection) is a security feature that validates

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) packets in a network. DAI

allows a network administrator to intercept, log, and discard ARP

packets with invalid MAC-to-IP address bindings.

Secure Shell (SSH) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL/HTTPS)

encrypt Telnet and web access to the switch, providing secure

network management.

The ECS5500-12T/12P also supports both RADIUS and TACACS+

authentication methods to secure your network.

Comprehensive QoS

The ECS5500-12T/12P offers advanced QoS for marking,

classification, and scheduling to deliver best-in-class

performance for data, voice, and video traffic at wire speed. Eight

egress queues per port enable differentiated management of up

to eight traffic types through the switch.

Traffic is prioritized according to 802.1p and DSCP to provide

optimal performance for real-time applications. Weighted Round

Robin (WRR) and strict priority ensure differential prioritization of

packet flows and avoid congestion of ingress and egress queues.

Asymmetric bidirectional rate-limiting, per port or per traffic

class, preserves network bandwidth and allows maximum

control of networkresources.

Robust Multicast Control

IGMP snooping prevents the flooding of multicast traffic by

dynamically configuring switch ports so that multicast traffic is

forwarded to only those ports associated with an IP multicast

receiver. IGMP increases the performance of networks by

reducing multicast trafficflooding.

IGMP groups allow you to create customer packages for IP-TV

channels, making switch configuration easy. IGMP Filtering

prevents subscribers seeing unsubscribed IP-TV channels. And,

IGMP Throttling allows you to set how many IP-TV channels a

subscriber can receivesimultaneously.

Multicast VLANs are shared in the network, while subscribers

remain in separate VLANs. This increases network security and

saves bandwidth on core links. Multicast streams do not have to

be routed in core L3 switches, which saves CPU power.

Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR) is designed for applications

such as Media-on-Demand that send multicast traffic across an

Ethernet network.

IPv6 Support

The switch supports a number of IPv6 features, including IPv6

Management, DHCPv6 Snooping with Option 37, IPv6 Source

Guard, and MVR6.

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