Ethernet Aggregation Switch MES3324F

• Bandwidth up to 128 Gbps
  
• L2+ switch
• Support for L3 functions
• Front-to-Back cooling
• Stacking up to 8 devices
• Hot-swappable redundant power supplies
• Duplicate cooling system

MES3300 series switches can be used in service provider networks as aggregation or transport switches. They have a great margin of performance due to universal interfaces operating at speeds of 10Gbps or 1Gbps.

The features list of MES aggregation switches includes advanced L2 functions, static and dynamic routing, four 10 Gbps (SFP+) interfaces, stacking up to 8 devices and hot-swappable redundant power supplies.

Interfaces functions

• Head-of-line blocking (HOL) protection
• Back Pressure
• Auto MDI/MDIX
• Jumbo Frames
• Flow control (IEEE 802.3X)
• Port Mirroring
• 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
• IEEE 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
• IGMP authorization via RADIUS
• MLD Snooping v1,2
• IGMP Querier
• MVR

L2 functions

• STP (Spanning Tree Protocol, IEEE 802.1d)
• RSTP (Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol, IEEE 802.1w)
• MSTP (Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol, IEEE 802.1s)
• STP Multiprocess
• Spanning Tree Fast Link option
• EAPS^¹
• STP Root Guard
• STP Loop Guard
• BPDU Filtering
• STP BPDU Guard
• VLAN-based Loopback Detection (LBD)
• ERPS (G.8032v2)
• Private VLAN
• Layer 2 Protocol Tunneling

L3 functions

• Static IP routes
• Dynamic routing protocols RIPv2, OSPFv2, OSPFv3
• Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
• VRRP
• PIM SM, IGMP Proxy

Link Aggregation functions

• Static LAG
• Dynamic LAG (LACP)
• LAG Balancing Algorithm

IPv6 functions

• IPv6 Host
• Dual-stack

Service functions

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

Security functions

• DHCP Snooping
• DHCP Option 82
• IP Source Guard
• Dynamic ARP Inspection
• sFlow
• MAC-based authentication, Port Security, Static MAC entries
• Port-based authentication IEEE 802.1x
• Guest VLAN^¹
• DoS attack prevention
• Traffic segmentation
• Protection against non-authorized DHCP servers
• DHCP clients filtering
• BPDU attacks prevention
• NetBIOS/NetBEUI filtering
• PPPoE Intermediate Agent

Quality of Service (QoS)

• QoS statistics
• Shaping, Policing
• IEEE 802.1p Class of Service (CoS)
• Storm Control
• 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

ОАМ

• IEEE 802.3ah Ethernet OAM
• Dying Gasp
• IEEE 802.1ag Connectivity Fault Management (CFM)^¹
• IEEE 802.3ah Unidirectional Link Detection (UDLD)

ACL (Access Control Lists)

• L2-L3-L4 ACL
• 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

Main management functions

• Download and upload of configuration file via TFTP
• SNMP
• Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Web interface
• Syslog
• SNTP (Simple Network Time Protocol)
• Traceroute
• LLDP (802.1ab) + LLDP MED
• Access control – privilege levels
• Management interface blocking
• Local authentication
• IP addresses filtering for SNMP
• RADIUS and TACACS+ (Terminal Access Controller Access Control System) clients
• SSH server
• SSL
• Macrocommands
• CLI commands logging
• System log
• DHCP autoprovision
• DHCP Relay (IPv4 support)
• DHCP Option 12
• Debugging commands
• Rate limit of traffic to CPU
• Password encryption
• Password recovery
• Ping (IPv4/IPv6 support)
• FTP server^¹

Monitoring functions

• Statistics on interfaces
• RMON/SMON
• CPU utilization monitoring per task and per traffic type
• RAM utilization monitoring
• Temperature monitoring
• TCAM utilization monitoring

MIB

• RFC 1065, 1066, 1155, 1156, 2578 MIB Structure
• RFC 1212 Concise MIB Definitions
• RFC 1213 MIB II
• RFC 1215 MIB Traps Convention
• RFC 1493, 4188 Bridge MIB
• RFC 1157, 2571-2576 SNMP MIB
• RFC 1901-1908, 3418, 3636, 1442, 2578 SNMPv2 MIB
• RFC 271,1757, 2819 RMON MIB
• RFC 2465 IPv6 MIB
• RFC 2466 ICMPv6 MIB
• RFC 2737 Entity MIB
• RFC 4293 IPv6 SNMP Mgmt Interface MIB
• Private MIB
• RFC 3289 DIFFSERV MIB
• RFC 2021 RMONv2 MIB
• RFC 1398, 1643, 1650, 2358, 2665, 3635 Ether-like MIB
• RFC 2668 802.3 MAU MIB
• RFC 2674, 4363 802.1p MIB
• RFC 2233, 2863 IF MIB
• RFC 2618 RADIUS Authentication Client MIB
• RFC 4022 MIB for TCP
• RFC 4113 MIB for UDP
• RFC 3298 MIB for Diffserv
• RFC 2620 RADIUS Accounting Client MIB
• RFC 2925 Ping & Traceroute MIB
• RFC 768 UDP
• RFC 791 IP
• RFC 792 ICMPv4
• RFC 2463, 4443 ICMPv6
• RFC 4884 Extended ICMP or Multi-Part messages support
• RFC 793 TCP
• RFC 2474, 3260 DS field in the IPv4 and IPv6 header
• RFC 1321, 2284, 2865, 3580, 3748 Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)
• RFC 2571, RFC2572, RFC2573, RFC2574 SNMP
• RFC 826 ARP

¹Not supported in the current firmware version (4.0.7)