Feature

Hardware and Performance

• • 6 open module slots design:
    • Up to 2 Management Modules 
    • Up to 4 Switch Modules
  • Hot-swappable switching modules
  • 1 RJ45 serial console interface on Management Module for switch basic management and setup

Redundant Power System

• • 3 power slots
  • 100~240V AC and 36-72V DC power redundancy
  • 1 default AC power supply 
  • 2 additional open slots for optional power supply
  • Active-active redundant power failure protection
  • Backup of catastrophic power failure on one supply

IP Routing Features

• • IPv4 Routing protocol supports RIP v1/v2, OSPFv2 and BGP4
  • IPv6 Routing protocol supports RIPng, OSPFv3 and BGP4+
  • Routing interface provides VLAN routing mode 
  • Policy-based Routing (PBR) for IPv4
  • VRRP protocol for redundant routing deployment
  • Supports route redistribution 

Multicast Routing Features

• • Supports Multicast Routing Protocols:
    • PIM-DM (Protocol Independent Multicast – Dense Mode)
    • PIM-SM (Protocol Independent Multicast – Sparse Mode)
    • PIM-SSM (Protocol Independent Multicast – Source-Specific Multicast Mode)
  • Supports IGMP v1/v2/v3

Layer 2 Features

• • Supports VLAN
    • IEEE 802.1Q tag-based VLAN
    • Provider Bridging (VLAN Q-in-Q, IEEE 802.1ad) supported
    • GVRP for dynamic VLAN management
    • Private VLAN
  • Supports Link Aggregation
    • 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
    • Cisco ether-channel (static trunk)
  • Supports Spanning Tree Protocol
    • STP, IEEE 802.1D (Classic Spanning Tree Protocol)
    • RSTP, IEEE 802.1w (Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol)
    • MSTP, IEEE 802.1s (Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol, spanning tree by VLAN)
  • Port mirroring to monitor the incoming or outgoing traffic on a particular port (many to 1)
  • Loop protection to avoid broadcast loops
  • Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
  • Ethernet OAM 802.3ah/802.1ag/ITU-Y.1731

Quality of Service

• • Ingress shaper and egress rate limit per port bandwidth control
  • 8 priority queues on all switch ports
    • IEEE 802.1p CoS/DSCP/Precedence
    • VLAN ID
    • Policy-based ingress and egress QoS

Multicast

• • Supports IPv4 IGMP snooping v1, v2 and v3
  • Supports IPv6 MLD snooping v1 and v2
  • Querier mode support
  • MVR (Multicast VLAN Registration)

Security

• • Authentication
    • IEEE 802.1x port-based network access authentication
    • Built-in RADIUS client to cooperate with the RADIUS servers
    • RADIUS/TACACS+ users access authentication
  • Access Control List
    • IP-based Access Control List (ACL)
    • MAC-based Access Control List (ACL)
    • Time-based ACL
  • DHCP Snooping to filter distrusted DHCP messages
  • Dynamic ARP Inspection discards ARP packets with invalid MAC address to IP address binding
  • IP Source Guard prevents IP spoofing attacks

Management

• • IPv4 and IPv6 dual stack management
  • Switch Management Interfaces
    • Console and Telnet Command Line Interface 
    • HTTP web switch management
    • SNMP v1 and v2c switch management
    • SSHv2, SSLv3, TLSv1.0 and SNMP v3 secure access
  • SNMP Management
    • Four RMON groups (history, statistics, alarms, and events) 
    • SNMP trap for interface Link Up and Link Down notification
  • Built-in Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) client
  • BOOTP and DHCP for IP address assignment
  • System Maintenance
    • Firmware upload/download via HTTP
    • Reset button for system reboot or reset to factory default
    • Dual images
  • DHCP Functions:
    • DHCP Relay
    • DHCP Option 82
    • DHCP Server
  • User Privilege levels control
  • Network Time Protocol (NTP) and SNTP
  • Network Diagnostic
    • SFP-DDM (Digital Diagnostic Monitor)
    • ICMP remote IP ping
  • Syslog remote alarm
  • System Log

Stacking Management

• • Virtualized multiple CS-6306R switches integrated into one logical device
  • Single IP address stack management, supporting up to 2 hardware units stacked together
  • Stacking architecture supports redundancy Ring mode