as well as firewall-like security on every port for downstream devices
through multi-user, multimethod authentication, authorization and audit.
Enterasys N-series flow switches:
• Ensure only the right users are accessing the right information from
the right place at the right time
• Discover, classify and prioritize voice and video traffic distinctly from
data traffic even though a single port may have 1,000 downstream
users
Matrix N-series can also be positioned at the edge of the network
enabling user/device level connectivity. High density 10/100/1000
connectivity and network access control functionality prevents the
spread of worms or viruses throughout a network, protecting users within
a VLAN or workgroup through quarantine and isolation of individual
conversations. Additionally standards based PoE support for IP telephony
services and applications ensure support for convergence applications.
switching / VLaN services
• 802.1Q VLANs
• 802.1D MAC Bridges
• 802.1w Rapid-reconvergence of Spanning Tree
• 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree
• 802.3ad Link Aggregation
• 802.3ae Gigabit Ethernet
• 802.3az 10-Gigabit Ethernet
• 802.3x Flow Control
• IP Multicast (IGMP support v1, v2, per VLAN querier offload)
• Jumbo Packet with MTU Discovery Support for Gigabit
• Link Flap Detection
• Dynamic Egress (Automated VLAN Port Configuration)
• Generic VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP)
IP Routing
• RFC 1812 General Routing
• RFC 792 ICMP
• RFC 1256 ICMP Router Discovery Protocol
• RFC 826 ARP
• RFC 1027 Proxy ARP
• Static Routes
• RFC 1058 RIPv1
• RFC 1723 RIPv2 with Equal Cost Multipath Load Balancing
• RFC 1812 RIP Requirements
• RFC 1519 CIDR
• RFC 2338 Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
• Standard ACLs
• DHCP Server RFC 1541/ Relay RFC 2131
extended IP Routing
• RFC 1583/RFC 2328 OSPFv2
• RFC 1587 OSPFv2 NSSA
• RFC 1745 OSPF Interactions
• RFC 1746 OSPF Interactions
• RFC 1765 OSPF Database Overflow
• RFC 2154 OSPF with Digital Signatures (Password & MD5)
• OSPF with Multipath Support
• OSPF Passive Interfaces
• RFC 2391 Load Sharing using Network Address Translation
• Extended ACLs
• Policy Based Routing
• RFC 1112 IGMP
• RFC 2236 IGMPv2
• DVMRP v3-10
• RFC 2361 Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode
Network security and Policy Management
• 802.1X port based authentication
• Web based authentication (PWA+)
• MAC based authentication
• Convergence Endpoint Discovery with Dynamic Policy Mapping
(Siemens HFA, Cisco VoIP, H.323 and SIP, LLDP-MED)
• Multiple authentication types per port simultaneously (802.1x,
MAC, PWA+)
• Multiple authenticated Users per port with Unique Policies per User/
end system (VLAN association independent)
• RFC 3580 IEEE 802.1 Radius Usage Guidelines, with VLAN to Policy
Mapping & VLAN assignment via authentication.
• Worm Suppression (Flow Set-Up Throttling)
• Broadcast Suppression
• ARP Storm Prevention
• MAC to Port Locking
• Span Guard (Spanning Tree Protection)
• Stateful Intrusion Detection System Load Balancing
• Stateful Intrusion Prevention System and Firewall Load Balancing
• Behavioral Anomaly Detection/Flow Collector (non-sampled Netflow
version 5 and version 9)
• Static Multicast Group Provisioning
• Multicast Group, Sender and Receiver Policy Control
• VLAN TAG Overwrite
Class of service
• Strict Priority Queuing
• Weighted Fair Queuing with Queue Bandwidth shaping
• 4/16 Transmit Queues per port (1000BaseX SFP)
• 4 Transmit Queues per port (10/100/1000)
• 16 Transmit Queues per port (10-Gigabit Ethernet)
• Up to 1024 Rate Limiters
• Packet count or Bandwidth based Rate Limiters.
• IP ToS/DSCP Marking/Remarking
• 802.1D Priority to Transmit Queue Mapping
Standards and Protocols
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