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SwITcH 8800 FAmIlY
The 3Com Switch 8800 has been designed to stand up to these
challenges for the most demanding enterprise environments.
The Switch 8800 delivers a comprehensive infrastructure
solution that is highly resilient, intelligent, secure and
scalable—one that is capable of adapting to the evolving
needs of the enterprise.
RESILIENT ARCHITECTURE FOR BUSINESS CONTINUITY
With a highly resilient modular architecture, the Switch 8800
Family enhances business continuity by helping ensure
availability of convergent enterprise applications including
data, voice and video. All critical system components
including power supplies, cooling fans and switch fabrics are
redundant and hot-swappable, minimizing any impact to the
enterprise in the event a single component should fail.
All Switch 8800 chassis models support the option for dual
switch fabrics providing high resiliency and rapid failover—
less than one second—to deliver the highest possible
availability of network resources. With dual switch fabrics
installed, both fabrics are active and load-sharing, ensuring
resiliency as well as doubling effective system performance.
Changes in network topology due to device or link failures can
lead to disruption of service for critical business applications.
Rapid recovery from such topology changes is achieved with
features such as Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP),
Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP), Open Shortest Path
First (OSPF) routing and Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
(VRRP).
APPLICATION CONVERGENCE: QOS AND POWER
OVER ETHERNET
Real-time applications such as voice over IP (VoIP) demand
high Quality of Service (QoS) and differentiated service levels
to function properly. The 3Com Switch 8800 Family provides
robust QoS and advanced traffic management features,
allowing critical applications to be prioritized and serviced as
the needs of the organization dictate.
Additionally, the Switch 8800 supports industry-standard IEEE
802.3af Power over Ethernet (PoE) to provide both electrical
power and network connectivity to PoE-capable devices, such
as IP telephones and wireless access points, making the
switches ideal for large-scale enterprise edge deployment.
PoE simplifies network deployment by eliminating the need
for separate data and power infrastructures, significantly
reducing installation and maintenance costs. PoE also
provides greater flexibility for moves, adds and changes on
the network, as powered network devices can be deployed or
relocated anywhere an Ethernet connection is available
without requiring a dedicated power outlet.
ENTERPRISE-WIDE SECURITY
Security is paramount in today’s enterprise and as
dependency on information technology continues to rise, so
does the need for highly secure IT systems and infrastructure.
The 3Com Switch 8800 Family features advanced security
capabilities, including user and device authentication, policy-
based access controls, encrypted system management
access and quarantine enforcement for containment of
vulnerabilities and deliberate attacks.
The Switch 8800 provides secure network access using
standard IEEE 802.1X along with with user- and device-based
access control capabilities. RADIUS support enables user
authentication. Port- and VLAN-based Access Control Lists
(ACLs) and dynamic traffic filtering capabilities can be
deployed to further control access to network resources.
Additional security measures are enforced on access to switch
management utilities via Secure Shell version 2 (SSH v2) and
SNMP v3 with authentication and encryption of network
management traffic.
Optional firewall and IPsec modules deliver an unprecedented
level of integrated security. The firewall module enables a
stateful firewall that operates in either a routed or transparent
mode, and offers high-efficiency packet filtering, transparent
proxy, stateful detection security technology. The IPsec
module is a high-performance hardware-based encryption
VPN module designed for enterprises requiring support for
multiple VPN applications. It provides multiple VPN functions
(L2TP VPN, GRE VPN, IPsec VPN) and supports IPsec
hardware encryption of DES, 3DES, and AES with a maximum
of 256-bit encryption.
The Switch 8800 family functions as an integral part of the
3Com Quarantine Protection solution to automate containment
of security threats on the enterprise network. 3Com
Quarantine integrates the industry-leading TippingPoint
®
Intrusion Prevention System with switch-based endpoint
enforcement at the network edge.
SCALABLE PERFORMANCE
With its 1.44 Terabits-per-second-capable backplane and
wire-speed switching capacity, the Switch 8800 provides
exceptional scalability for core, data center, distribution and
edge environments within the enterprise. System performance
and connectivity options can be tailored to each environment
with a wide selection of switching modules, scaling up to 48
10-Gigabit ports or 576 Gigabit ports in a single chassis.
The flexible design of the Switch 8800 allows for any combination
of switching modules to be used in a single system, allowing
easy expansion of network capacity, accommodating a range
of port densities and media types for 10-Gigabit and
Gigabit Ethernet.
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