EtherPath
EtherPath ESS3228

Layer 3 Managed Stackable Ethernet Routing Switch

The EtherPath ESS3228 is a Layer 3 Ethernet Routing switch developed with the performance, flexibility, manageability and unparalleled features required to address the Enterprise LAN and WAN applications expected in tomorrow networks.

The EtherPath ESS3228 is a fully featured L2, L3 and L4 switch with 24 Fast Ethernet ports plus 4 Gigabit Ethernet Uplink ports and an aggregate switching capacity of 12.8 Gbps. The uplink interface cards are user-installed options offering 1000Base T, and SFP plug-in cards options.

The EtherPath ESS3228 platform can accommodate additional CAM and Packet Buffer modules to support very large MAC forwarding and IP forwarding tables.

Features
  • Twenty four (24) auto-MDIX 10/100 ports
  • Uplink interfaces options are: choice of gigabit interface cards (up to 2),plus 2 built-in SFP ports .
  • 12.8 Gbps switching fabric
Layer 3 features
  • Learning, forwarding and aging
  • STP, Rapid STP*, and multiple STP*
  • MAC Filtering and MAC Port security
  • Port based and Protocol based VLAN, VLAN tagging, GVRP
  • Priority Queuing
  • Flow Control
  • Link Aggregation (8 Groups/8 Ports Each)
  • Port mirroring
  • Broadcast storm recovery
  • Head of Line Blocking Prevention
  • GMRP, IGMP Snooping
  • 802.1x Access Control
  • IPv4 Routing
  • ARP, ARP proxy*, and RARP*
  • Multi-port Subnet-VLAN Routing
  • Static IP Routes
  • Multi-subnet Broadcast
  • CIDR, VLSM, Route Summarization
  • RIP1, RIP2
  • OSPFv2
  • BGP (Optional Software Feature)
  • Route re-distribution between RIP, OSPF, local, and static
  • IP Multicast (IGMPv2, DVMRP, PIM-DM, and PIM-SM) (Optional Software Feature)
  • VRRP
  • Router Discovery
  • Secondary IP Address Capability
  • Class of Services
Layer 3+ and Additional Features
  • BOOTP/DHCP Relay
  • Bandwidth Allocation
  • Packet Filtering and Access Control List (ACL)
  • Network Address Translation (NAT)
  • Protection against Denial of Service (DOS)
OAMP Features
  • BOOTP/DHCP
  • Software and Configuration Updates using TFTP, XMODEM
  • POST and Diagnostics
  • Syslog
  • User Interface (CLI, Telnet, WBI)
  • SSH and SSL*
  • RADIUS Based Authentication*
  • SNMP, RMON