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SwITcH 8800 FAmIlY
SPEcIFIcATIONS
All information in this section is relevant to all members of
the 3Com Switch 8800 Family, unless stated otherwise.
CAPACITIES AND PERFORMANCE
Switch 8814
Two slots for switch fabrics; twelve payload slots
Backplane: 1.44 Tbps, max.
Bandwidth:
• 1.44 tbps, max. (dual fabrics)
• 720 Gbps, max. (single fabric)
Throughput, aggregate: 856 Mpps, max.
Switch 8810
Two slots for switch fabrics; eight payload slots
Backplane: 960 Gbps, max.
Bandwidth:
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960 Gbps, max. (dual fabrics)
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480 Gbps, max. (single fabric)
Throughput, aggregate: 572 Mpps, max.
Switch 8807
Two slots for switch fabrics; five payload slots
Backplane: 600 Gbps, max.
Bandwidth:
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300 Gbps, max. (dual fabrics)
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150 Gbps, max. (single fabric)
Throughput, aggregate: 358 Mpps, max.
LAYER 2 SWITCHING
14K MAC addresses per I/O module, 168K MAC addresses per chassis
max. (depending on VLAN configuration and number of I/O modules in
chassis)
1K static MAC addresses
Modules forwarding (delay <10µs)
4096 VLANs (IEEE 802.1Q)
Port-based (IEEE 802.1Q) and protocol-based (IEEE 802.1v) VLANS
Dynamic VLAN assignment capability based on user/device authentication
GVRP (GARP VLAN Registration Protocol)
IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation, with support for aggregation groups
across modules
Max. 31 link aggregation groups of 8 ports each; Advanced modules
(or hybrid mix) provides max. 7 groups of 8 ports each
Auto-negotiation of port speed and duplex
IEEE 802.3x full-duplex flow control
Back-pressure flow control for half-duplex
Broadcast storm suppression per VLAN
IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)
IEEE 802.1S Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol instances (MSTP)
Single STP instance
BPDU (Bridge Protocol Data Unit) protection
Jumbo frames (up to 10K bytes)
Super VLAN aggregation (RFC 3069)
Private VLAN
VLAN-based ACL
Multicast VLAN
Q-in-Q Tagging (VLAN VPN)
VPLS (Virtual Private LAN Service) using MPLS (Multiprotocol Label
Switching) and LDP (Label Distribution Protocol)
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VLL (Virtual Leased Line) using Martini and Kompella
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LAYER 3 SWITCHING
Hardware-based routing
128K routes; 256K routes on Advanced modules
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4K dynamic/static ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) max. entries per
chassis (3K for user ports and 1K allocated for link aggregation);
Advanced modules allow for 8K entries per I/O module (7K for user ports
and 1K allocated for link aggregation), with 64K max. per chassis
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1K IP interfaces
RIP (Routing Information Protocol), v1 and v2, 2K routes; supports
Split Horizons
OSPF (Open Shortest Path First), v1 and v2, 80K entries; 80K routes
on Advanced modules
ECMP (Equal Cost Multi-Path) for OSPF
BGP4 (Border Gateway Protocol 4)
*
IS-IS (Intra-Domain Intermediate System to Intermediate System)
*
Hardware-based multicast routing for wirespeed performance
4K multicast routes; 256 groups
IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) snooping on Layer 2
interfaces
IGMP v1 and v2
PIM-DM (Protocol Independent Multicast-Dense Mode)
PIM-SM (Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode)
Multicast BGP
*
MSDP (Multicast Source Discovery Protocol)
Multiple multicast static addresses to support Microsoft ISA and other
firewalls
DHCP Relay (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Relay)
DHCP Option 82
TCP/IP protocol stack
UDP Helper
MPLS with Layer 3 VPN, LDP and MBGP (Multiprotocol BGP)
*
VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol): 256 virtual routers per
switch; each virtual router supports 16 IP addresses
Complete IPv6 feature suite
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:
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IPv6 addressing architecture
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site-local, link-local and global unicast addresses
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multicast addresses
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IPv6 specification
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transmission of IPv6 over Ethernet networks
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IPv6 neighbor discovery
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IPv6 duplicate address detection
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IPv6 stateless address autoconfiguration
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IPv6 path MTU discovery
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ICMPv6
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IPv6 static routes
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RIPng
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OSPFv3
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BGP4+ for IPv6
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VRRPv3
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ECMP for IPv6
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MLD
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MLD snooping
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PIM-SM and PIM-DM for IPv6
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dual stack architecture
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configured tunnels
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IPv6 to IPv4 tunnels
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GRE tunnels
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ISATAP tunnels
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ACLs for IPv6
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DNSv6
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Telnetv6
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FTP/TFTP over IPv6
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ping and traceroute for IPv6
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centralized IPv6 for non-IPv6-capable modules
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Chassis must be configured with VPLS and Advanced routing modules
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Chassis must be configured only with Advanced routing modules
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Support for 256K routes requires optional 1Gb memory upgrade kit (3C17518)
* Available in the 3Com Advanced Feature Software v3, at additional cost
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Available in the 3Com Advanced Feature Software v5 (IPv6), at additional cost
