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WITCH

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| Advanced Layer 3 Modular Switch

Standards and Protocols

AlliedWare Plus™ Operating System Version

5.2.1

Authentication

RFC 1321 MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm
RFC 1828 IP Authentication using Keyed MD5
RFC 2082 RIP-2 MD5 Authentication

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

BGP Dynamic Capability 
BGP Graceful Restart 
BGP Outbound Route Filtering
Extended Communities Attribute
RFC 1771 Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
RFC 1772 Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in
the Internet
RFC 1997 BGP Communities Attribute
RFC 2385 Protection of BGP Sessions via the TCP MD5
Signature Option
RFC 2439 BGP Route Flap Damping
RFC 2796 BGP Route Reflection - An Alternative to Full
Mesh IBGP
RFC 2858 Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
RFC 2918 Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4
RFC 3065 Autonomous System Confederations for BGP
RFC 3107 Carrying Label Information in BGP-4
RFC 3392 Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4

Encryption

FIPS 180-1 Secure Hash Standard (SHA-1)
FIPS 186 Digital Signature Standard (RSA)
FIPS 46-3 Data Encryption Standard (DES & 3DES)

Ethernet

IEEE 802.2 Logical Link Control
IEEE 802.3 Ethernet CSMA/CD
IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-T
IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation
IEEE 802.3ad (LACP) Link Aggregation Control Protocol
IEEE 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet
IEEE 802.3u 100BASE-T
IEEE 802.3x Flow Control - Full Duplex Operation
IEEE 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet

General Routing

ECMP Equal Cost Multi Path routing
RFC  768 User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
RFC  791 Internet Protocol (IP)
RFC  792 Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
RFC  793 Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
RFC  826 Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
RFC  894 Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams
over Ethernet networks
RFC  903 Reverse ARP
RFC  919 Broadcasting Internet datagrams
RFC  922 Broadcasting Internet datagrams in the presence
of subnets
RFC  925 Multi-LAN ARP
RFC  932 Subnetwork addressing scheme
RFC  950 Internet Standard Subnetting Procedure
RFC  951 Bootstrap Protocol (BootP)
RFC 1027 Proxy ARP
RFC 1035 DNS Client
RFC 1042 Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams
over IEEE 802 networks
RFC 1071 Computing the Internet checksum
RFC 1122 Internet Host Requirements
RFC 1191 Path MTU discovery
RFC 1256 ICMP Router Discovery Messages
RFC 1518 An Architecture for IP Address Allocation with
CIDR

RFC 1519 Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR)
RFC 1541 DHCPv4 Client & Server
RFC 1542 Clarifications & Extensions for the Bootstrap
Protocol
RFC 1700 Assigned Numbers
RFC 1812 Requirements for IPv4 Routers
RFC 1918 IP Addressing
RFC 2131 DHCP
RFC 2132 DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions.
RFC 2581 TCP Congestion Control
RFC 3046 DHCP Relay Agent Information Option (DHCP
Option 82)
RFC 3232 Assigned Numbers
RFC 3993 Subscriber-ID Suboption for DHCP Relay Agent
Option

IPv6 Support

RFC 1886 DNS Extensions to support IPv6
RFC 1981 Path MTU Discovery for IPv6
RFC 2460 IPv6 specification
RFC 2461 Neighbour Discovery for IPv6
RFC 2462 IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
RFC 2463 ICMPv6
RFC 2464 Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet
Networks
RFC 2526 Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addresses
RFC 2711 IPv6 Router Alert Option
RFC 2893 Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and
Routers
RFC 3056 Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds
RFC 3484 Default Address Selection for IPv6
RFC 3513 IPv6 Addressing Architecture
RFC 3587 IPv6 Global Unicast Address Format

Management

IEEE802.1-PAE-MIB Port Access Control MIB
IEEE802.3-LAG-MIB Link Aggregation MIB
IGMP MIB 
MSTP MIB 
PIM MIB 
RFC 1155 Structure and Identification of Management
Information for TCP/IP-based Internets
RFC 1157 Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
RFC 1212 Concise MIB definitions
RFC 1213 MIB for Network Management of TCP/IP-based
internets: MIB-II
RFC 1215 Convention for defining traps for use with SNMP
RFC 1227 SNMP MUX protocol and MIB
RFC 1239 Standard MIB
RFC 1493 Bridge MIB
RFC 1724 RIPv2 MIB Extension
RFC 1757 RMON (groups 1,2,3 and 9)
RFC 1850 OSPFv2 MIB
RFC 2011 SNMPv2 MIB for IP using SMIv2
RFC 2012 SNMPv2 MIB for TCP using SMIv2
RFC 2096 IP Forwarding Table MIB
RFC 2239 Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3
Medium Attachment Units (MAUs) 
RFC 2674 Definitions of Managed Objects for Bridges with
Traffic Classes, Multicast Filtering 
RFC 2787 Definitions of Managed Objects for VRRP
RFC 2790 Host MIB
RFC 2819 RMON MIB
RFC 2863 Interfaces Group MIB
RFC 2932 IPv4 Multicast Routing MIB
RFC 3164 Syslog Protocol
RFC 3411 An Architecture for Describing SNMP Management
Frameworks
RFC 3412 Message Processing and Dispatching for the SNMP

RFC 3413 SNMP Applications
RFC 3414 User-based Security Model (USM) for SNMPv3
RFC 3415 View-based Access Control Model (VACM) for SNMP
RFC 3416 Version 2 of the Protocol Operations for SNMP
RFC 3417 Transport Mappings for the SNMP 
RFC 3418 MIB for SNMP
RFC 3635 Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-
like Interface Types

Multicast Support

Bootstrap Router for PIM-SM 
IGMP & MLD snooping switches
IGMP Proxy 
IGMP Snooping 
RFC 1112 Host extensions for IP multicasting
RFC 2236 Internet Group Management Protocol, version 2
(IGMPv2)
RFC 2362 PIM-SM
RFC 2715 Interoperability Rules for Multicast Routing
Protocols
RFC 3376 IGMPv3

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)

Graceful OSPF Restart 
OSPF Link-local Signaling 
OSPF Restart Signaling 
OSPF TE Extensions 
Out-of-band LSDB Resync 
RFC 1245 OSPF protocol analysis
RFC 1246 Experience with the OSPF protocol
RFC 1370 Applicability Statement for OSPF
RFC 1765 OSPF Database Overflow
RFC 2328 OSPFv2
RFC 2370 OSPF Opaque LSA Option
RFC 3101 OSPF Not-So-Stubby Area (NSSA) Option
RFC 3509 Alternative Implementations of OSPF Area Border
Routers

Quality of Service

Differentiated Services
IEEE 802.1p Priority Tagging
Combined strict priority & WRR queuing
RFC 2211 Specification of the Controlled-Load Network
Element Service
RFC 2474 Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS
Field)
RFC 2475 An Architecture for Differentiated Services
RFC 2597 Assured Forwarding PHB Group
RFC 2697 A Single-Rate Three-Color Marker
RFC 2698 A Two-Rate Three-Color Marker
RFC 3246 Expedited Forwarding PHB (Per-Hop Behavior)

Redundancy

EPSR Ethernet Protection Switched Rings
IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) - MAC Bridges
IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)
IEEE 802.1t - 2001 802.1D maintenance
IEEE 802.1w - 2001 Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)
RFC 3768 Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)

Routing Protocols

RFC 1058 Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
RFC 2080 RIPng for IPv6
RFC 2453 RIP version 2

Security Features

802.1x Authentication protocols (TLS, TTLS & PEAP)
IEEE 802.1x Port Based Network Access Control Port
Security (intrusion detection)
Bridge Protocol Data Unit Protection
RFC 2246 TLS Protocol v1.0
RFC 3546 Transport Layer Security (TLS) Extensions
RFC 3748 PPP Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)

Summary of Contents for Switchblade AT-x908

Page 1: ...roved TCP IP bandwidth limiting performance and bandwidth resolution down to 1Kbps Low switching latency essential for Voice over IP VoIP and real time streaming media applications Management Out of b...

Page 2: ...ons Administrators can choose from a range of secure remote management options including SNMPv3 and SSH Flexibility The high speed expansion modules provide copper or fiber connectivity possibilities...

Page 3: ...t connection of servers to the SwithBlade x908 Copper ports are added through the XEM 12T a 12 port Gigabit Ethernet copper module The SwitchBlade x908 links the network to the Internet over a 100Mbps...

Page 4: ...0 BASE X SFP expansion module Other buildings uplink to the core using 10 Gigabit Ethernet links from x900 switches to the XEM 1XP modules on the SwitchBladex908 This enables large files video and voi...

Page 5: ...e stacked core and distribution layer as illustrated in Diagram 3 provides increased bandwidth as well as resiliency Link aggregation to the servers creates a resilient connection to important data Th...

Page 6: ...s to thier customers as possible maximizing their per port revenue The SwitchBlade x908 Advanced Modular switch provides maximum Gigabit Ethernet port density in a 3RU chassis A high degree of flexibi...

Page 7: ...cteristics AC Voltage 100 to 240V 10 auto ranging Frequency 47 to 63Hz DC Voltage 36 to 72V Power Consumption5 SwitchBladex908 510W maximum Environmental Specifications Operating Temperature Range 0 C...

Page 8: ...C 3513 IPv6 Addressing Architecture RFC 3587 IPv6 Global Unicast Address Format Management IEEE802 1 PAE MIB Port Access Control MIB IEEE802 3 LAG MIB Link Aggregation MIB IGMP MIB MSTP MIB PIM MIB RF...

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Page 10: ...ables 10 Please check with your sales representative for ROHS compliance on SFP modules About Allied Telesis Allied Telesis is part of the Allied Telesis Group Founded in 1987 the company is a global...

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