Features
Standard Compliance
• IEEE 802.3 10Base-T Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3u 100Base-Tx Ethernet
• IEEE 802.ab 1000Base-T Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3z 1000Base-X
• IEEE 802.3x flow control
• IEEE 802.1d spanning tree protocol
• IEEE 802.1w rapid spanning tree protocol
• IEEE 802.1s multiple spanning tree protocol
• IEEE 802.1p class of service, priority protocols
• IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging
• IEEE 802.1x port authentication
• IEEE 802.3ad LACP aggregation
Traffic Management and QoS
• Broadcast storm control
• IEEE 802.1p with 8 hardware priority queues per
port for different types of traffic
• IEEE 802.1Q tag-based and port-based VLAN
• Weighted Fair Queuing (WFQ)/WRR/SPQ
scheduling algorithm
• Policy based rate limiting
• Policy based bandwidth control
• Port based traffic shaping
• Rule-based traffic mirroring
• IGMP snooping (v1, v2, v3)
• IGMP filtering
• Jumbo frame support (9K Bytes) for high
performance data backup or recovery services
• Support GVRP, automatic VLAN member
registration
• Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR)
Link Aggregation
• IEEE 802.3ad LACP link aggregation compliant
• Support static manually port trunking
• Up to 6 aggregation groups,8 ports/per group
randomly selected
• VLAN trunking
Redundancy for Fault Backup
• IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
(RSTP) provides rapid convergence of spanning
tree independent of spanning-tree timer
• IEEE 802.1s multiple spanning tree provides link
availability in multiple VLAN environments by
allowing multiple spanning trees
• MRSTP—Multiple RSTP
User Security and Authentication
• IEEE 802.1x authentication
• IP source guard (static IP/MAC binding, DHCP
snooping, ARP inspection)
• IP subnet VLAN & VLAN isolation
• Limiting MAC number per port
• Loop guard prevents a switch from being
affected by another switch which is already in a
looping status
• MAC filtering per port secures access to each
port
• MAC freeze
• Port security, port isolation, port mirroring
• Static MAC forwarding per port: only specified
MAC addresses can access the network (port
security)
• Wire speed filtering per MAC/IP/TCP/UDP
• Wire speed mirroring per MAC/IP/TCP/UDP
• Wire speed rate limiting per MAC/IP/TCP/UDP
• GVRP, automatic VLAN member registration
Network Administration Security
• SSH v1/v2
• SSL
• RADIUS accounting
• TACACS+ authentication, accounting
• NTP, daylight saving
Network Management
• Supports ZyXEL iStacking™, up to 24 switches
can be managed by one IP address
• Intuitive Web-based management with all
features configurable
• Text-based configuration profile for massive
deployment
• Telnet CLI (Cisco like)
• SNMP v1, v2c, v3
• SNMP trap group
• RMON four RMON groups 1, 2, 3, 9 (history,
statistics, alarms, and events) for enhanced
traffic management, monitoring, and analysis
• Out-of-Band management: RS-232c local
console
• Firmware upgrade, configuration backup/
restore via ftp
• Alarm led indicator for early warning of
hardware troubles
• Send system trap to trap server
• DHCP relay, DHCP relay per VLAN, DHCP relay
option 82, DHCP client
• Port mirroring: supports source/destination/
both port mirroring
• IEEE 802.3ah Ethernet Operations,
Administration and Management (OAM)
Intelligent ACL
(L2/L3/L4 Access List Control)
• Based on port
• Based on MAC + VLAN ID
• Based on IP address (source/destination)
• Based on protocol type
• Based on TCP/UDP port number
MIB Information
• RFC1213 MIB II
• RFC1493 Bridge MIB
• RFC1643 Ethernet MIB
• RFC1757 RMON group 1, 2, 3, 9
• RFC2011 IP MIB
• RFC2012 TCP MIB
• RFC2013 UDP MIB
• RFC2233 ifVHC Packet Group
• RFC2674 VLAN MIB
• RFC2925 PING-MIB and TRACEROUTE-MIB
• ZyXEL private MIB
Safety Agency Certification
• UL 60950-1
• CSA 60950-1
• EN 60950-1
• IEC 60950-1
• EU RoHS compliant
