Ethernet Aggregation Switches MES3324

Overview
Specifications
Reviews
Key features
  • Bandwidth of up to 128 Gbps
  • L2+ switch
  • Front-to-Back cooling
  • Stacking up to 8 devices
  • Hot-swappable redundant power supplies
  • Duplicated cooling system
Short description
MES3324 is an Ethernet aggregation switch that can be used in service provider networks as aggregation or transport switch. It has a great margin of performance due to universal interfaces operating at speeds of 10Gbps or 1Gbps.
Interfaces
  • 20 х 10/100/1000BASE-T
  • 4 х 10/100/1000BASE-T/ 1000BASE-X/100BASE-FX Combo
  • 4 х 10GBASE-R (SFP+)/1000BASE-X (SFP)
  • 1 х 10/100/1000BASE-T (OOB)
  • Console port RS-232/RJ-45
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
  • EAPS¹
  • 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
  • ECMP Load Balancing
  • IP Unnumbered
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 VLAN¹
  • 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
  • 802.1p, DSCP mark assignment for IGMP
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
  • Redirecting the output of CLI commands to an arbitrary file on
  • ROM
  • 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
  • DHCP Relay Option 82
  • PPPoE Circuit-ID tag
  • Flash File System
  • Debugging commands
  • Rate limit of traffic to CPU
  • Password encryption
  • Password recovery
  • Ping (IPv4/IPv6 support)
  • FTP server¹
  • DNS server
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/IETF
  • 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 (4.0.9)