3COM® ROUTER 5000 FAMILY
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KEY BENEFITS
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FULLY FEATURED ROUTING PLATFORM
To eliminate the need for costly and inconvenient upgrades, the routers
come equipped with all the required operating memory, a complete
routing and security suite and a robust applications set. The routers
include a full complement of memory and flash memory to support
dual software images. Standard routing capabilities include: IP and IPX
routing, OSPF, RIP V1/2, integrated IS–IS, multicast routing, QoS, IEEE
802.1Q VLAN and IGMP v1, 2 and 3 and more.
MULTIVENDOR INTEROPERABILITY ACROSS THE WAN
To accommodate today’s multivendor networking environments, 3Com
routers are designed to interoperate with standards-based equipment
from other vendors. The 3Com Router 5000 Family has been “Tolly
Verified for Interoperability with Cisco,” reducing implementation and
testing time for enterprises with core Cisco routers.
ADVANCED SECURITY AND CONTROL FEATURES
The Router 6000 Family helps secure and safeguard sensitive information
against unauthorized access. Security and control features include:
AAA, RADIUS authentication, a stateful packet inspection firewall,
denial-of-service (DoS) blocking and Access Control Lists (ACLs). L2TP
and IPSec VPNs with 3DES and AES encryption provide additional
security over the WAN.
The embedded firewall includes support for ACLs, plus generic routing
encapsulation (GRE), network address translation (NAT), NAT traversal
and application layer gateways. Business applications are able to pass
easily through the firewall and across the VPN.
VOICE, DATA AND VIDEO INTEGRATION
The 3Com Router 5000 Family delivers advanced QoS, including
DiffServ support, for effective traffic management on networks that run
converged voice, data and video applications. Utilizing IP differentiated
services for applications and ATM QoS for traffic and physical layer
prioritization, the routers are equipped to handle the most demanding
multimedia networking. This helps assure the level of service required
for delay-sensitive traffic and continuous business operation, even
during heavy network use. The routers support both IEEE 802.1p
prioritization and IEEE 802.Q VLANs.
Voice MIMs support both analog and digital voice communications.
They enable enterprises, service providers and managed service
providers to connect the public switched telephone network (PSTN)
and traditional telephony equipment (including PBXs, key systems,
analog phones and fax machines) directly to the routers without addi-
tional equipment.
RESILIENCE AND REDUNDANCY FOR MAXIMUM UPTIME
The routers are designed for high resiliency to meet stringent enter-
prise uptime standards. To ensure continuous operation, they support
redundant links and provide extra bandwidth to minimize downtime
and ensure resilience in case of service disruptions. Reliability features
include configuration rollback, multilinks, Virtual Router Redundancy
Protocol (VRRP), Backup Control Center (Configuration/Port) and Dial
Control Center.
In addition, the routers include 32 MB of flash memory to hold multi-
ple configuration files and operating system images for recovery pur-
poses. If the router cannot boot from a recently updated software image
or configuration file, it can boot from a specified backup file or image
residing in this memory.
