Chapter 4
Switch Hardware and Functions
4 - 6
• Redundant Hot Swappable Hard Drives
• 1:1 Redundant Hot Swappable Power Supplies
• One 100/1000 Ethernet management diagnostic port
Control and Management Functions
The ARX supports the following switch fabric and control functions:
• RS232/Console serial interface for local switch management
• Out-of-band 100/1000 Ethernet interface for local/remote switch
management
• Service definition and policy enforcement
• Failover signaling and configuration information
• Port mirroring and debugging
• MAC address assignment for Ethernet ports
• Real-time clock synchronization for user interfaces
• Switch health status and statistics monitoring and management through
LEDs and software
• Temperature and power monitoring
Adaptive Services
The ARX provides the core distributed file server functions for the switch,
including:
• Virtual distribution of front-end file services for NFS v 2/3 and CIFS
protocols
• Volume management and file server capabilities
• Back-end network-attached storage (NAS) aggregation
Network Services
The ARX supports the following network services:
• 2 1000BASE-X gigabit Ethernet ports (small form-factor pluggable
(SFP) optical connectors)
• 12 100/1000BASE-T Ethernet ports (RJ-45 connectors)
• Auto-negotiation for 100/1000 Ethernet transmission
• Standard Ethernet and jumbo-frame (9K) packet sizes
• Full-duplex switching at line rates for Layer 2 processing
• Low latency, store and forward switching, with built-in multicast support
• Load balancing and resource switching
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