Aggregation switch MES3300-08F

• Bandwidth up to 112 Gbps
• Non-blocking architecture
• 4 ports of 10G  in basic configuration
• L3 functions
• Stacking up to 8 devices
• Hot-swappable redundant power supplies
• Dual ventilation system
• Front-to-Back cooling

MES3300-08F switches can be used as aggregation or transport switches in carrier networks and as Top-of-Rack switches for data centers. They ensure high performance due to the universal interfaces operating at speeds of 10 Gbps or 1 Gbps.

The benefits of MES aggregation switches include advanced L2 functions, support for static and dynamic routing, stacking of up to 8 devices, and hot-swappable redundant power supplies.

Interfaces

• 1000BASE-X/100BASE-FX (SFP) - 4
• 10/100/1000BASE-T/1000BASE-X/100BASE-FX Combo - 4
• 10GBASE-R (SFP+)/1000BASE-X (SFP) - 4
• 10/100/1000BASE-T (OOB) - 1
• Console port RS-232 (RJ-45) - 1

Performance

• Bandwidth - 96 Gbps 
• Throughput for 64 bytes¹ - 71.4 MPPS
• Buffer memory - 1.5 MB
• RAM (DDR4) - 2 GB
• ROM (RAW NAND) - 512 MB
• MAC table - 16384
• ARP table² - 4087
• VLAN table - 4094
• L2 Multicast groups - 4092
• SQinQ rules - 1320 ingress, 1320 egress
• MAC ACL rules - 3000
• IPv4/IPv6 ACL rules - 2999/1500
• L3 IPv4 Unicast  routes³ - 13278
• L3 IPv6 Unicast  routes³ - 3316
• L3 IPv4 Multicast  routes (IGMP Proxy, PIM)³ - 4087
• L3 IPv6 Multicast  routes (IGMP Proxy, PIM)³ - 1642
• VRRP routes - 255
• Maximum size of ECMP groups - 8
• VRF 16 (including default VRF)
• L3 interfaces 2050
• Link Aggregation Groups (LAG) - 32, up to 8 ports per LAG
• Quality of Service (QoS) - 8 egress queues per port
• Jumbo frames - 10240 bytes
• Stacking - 8 devices

Interface functions

• Head-of-line blocking (HOL) protection
• Back Pressure
• Auto MDI/MDIX
• Jumbo Frames
• Flow control (IEEE 802.3X)
• Port Mirroring (SPAN, RSPAN)
• Stacking

MAC table functions

• Independent learning mode per VLAN
• MAC Multicast Support
• Configurable aging time of MAC addresses
• Static MAC Entries
• MAC Flapping logging

VLAN functions

• Voice VLAN
• 802.1Q
• Q-in-Q
• Selective Q-in-Q
• GVRP

L2 Multicast functions

• Multicast profiles
• Static Multicast groups
• IGMP Snooping v1,2,3
• Port/host-based IGMP Snooping Fast Leave
• Pim-Snooping
• IGMP proxy-report
• IGMP authorization via RADIUS
• MLD Snooping v1,2
• IGMP Querier
• MVR

L2 functions

• Spanning Tree Protocol, IEEE 802.1d
• Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol, IEEE 802.1w
• Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol, IEEE802.1s
• PVSTP+
• RPVSTP+
• Spanning Tree Fast Link option
• STP Root Guard
• BPDU Filtering
• STP BPDU Guard
• Loopback Detection
• ERPS (G.8032v2)
• Flex-link
• Private VLAN
• Layer 2 Protocol Tunneling (L2PT)

L3 functions

• Static IP routes
• Dynamic routing protocols RIPv2, OSPFv2, OSPFv3, IS-IS (IPv4 Unicast), BGP4 (IPv4 Unicast, IPv4 Multicast)
• BFD (for BGP)
• Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
• Proxy ARP
• VRRP
• Multicast dynamic routing protocols PIM SM, PIM DM, IGMP Proxy, MSDP
• ECMP Load Balancing
• IP Unnumbered
• VRF lite

Link Aggregation functions

• Static LAG
• Dynamic LAG (LACP)
• LAG Balancing Algorithm
• Multi-Switch Link Aggregation Group (MLAG)

IPv6 functions

• IPv6 Host
• Dual stack IPv4, IPv6

Service functions

• Virtual Cable Testing (VCT)
• Optical transceiver diagnostics
• Green Ethernet

Security functions

• Protection against unauthorized DHCP servers (DHCP Snooping)
• DHCP Option 82
• IP Source Guard
• Dynamic ARP Inspection
• First Hop Security
• sFlow
• MAC-based authentication, Port Security, Static MAC entries
• Port-based authentication IEEE 802.1x
• Guest VLAN
• DoS attack prevention
• Traffic segmentation
• DHCP clients filtering
• BPDU attack prevention
• NetBIOS/NetBEUI filtering

Quality of Service (QoS)

• QoS statistics
• Shaping, Policing
• IEEE 802.1p Class of Service (CoS)
• Storm Control for different types of traffic (broadcast, multicast, unknown unicast)
• Bandwidth management
• Scheduling algorithms: Strict Priority/Weighted Round Robin (WRR)
• Three marking colors
• ACL-based CoS/DSCP mark assignment
• ACL-based VLAN assignment
• Setting the IEEE 802.1p priority for management VLAN
• DSCP to CoS/CoS to DSCP remarking
• 802.1p, DSCP mark assignment for IGMP

OAM

• 802.3ah Ethernet Link OAM
• 802.3ah Unidirectional Link Detection

ACL (Access Control Lists)

• L2-L3-L4 ACL (Access Control List)
• Time-Based ACL
• IPv6 ACL
• ACL based on:
  • Physical port number
  • IEEE 802.1p
  • VLAN ID
  • EtherType
  • DSCP
  • Protocol type
  • TCP/UDP port number
  • User Defined Bytes

Management functions

• Configuration file download and upload via TFTP/SCP
• SNMP
• Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Web interface
• Syslog
• SNTP (Simple Network Time Protocol)
• Traceroute
• LLDP (802.1ab) + LLDP MED
• Access control – privilege levels for users
• Management interface blocking