| Unified Wired and Wireless |
- Dynamic segmentation
- Supports unified wired and wireless policies
- Switch auto-configuration
- User role
- Static IP Visibility
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| Software-defined networks |
REST APIs and OpenFlow |
| Quality of Service (QoS) |
- Traffic prioritization (IEEE 802.1p)
- Layer 4 prioritization
- Class of Service (CoS)
- Rate limiting
- Large buffers
- Unknown Unicast Rate Limiting
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| Connectivity |
- Flexible 10 Gb/s Ethernet connectivity
- Auto-MDIX
- IPv6
- IPv6 host
- Dual stack (IPv4 and IPv6).
- MLD snooping
- IPv6 ACL/QoS
- IPv6 routing
- Security
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| Performance and efficiency |
- Energy-efficient design delivers power savings
- 80 PLUS Silver Certified power supply
- Energy-efficient Ethernet (EEE) support
- Designed with the latest Aruba ProVision ASIC
- Selectable queue configurations
- Stacking topology
- Virtual Switching Framework (VSF) front plane stacking creates one virtual resilient switch from up to eight* switches
- Ring topology supports up to an 8-member stack
- Virtualized switching provides simplified management as the switches act as a single chassis when stacked
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| Convergence |
- IP multicast snooping and IGMP
- IEEE 802.1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
- LLDP-MED (Media Endpoint Discovery)
- IP multicast routing
- Local MAC Authentication
- Protocol Independent Multicast for IPv6
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| Resiliency and high availability |
- IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree
- IEEE 802.3ad link-aggregation-control protocol (LACP) and port trunking
- Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
- SmartLink
- SNMPv1, v2, and v3
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| Simplified configuration and management |
- SNMPv1, v2, and v3
- Zero-Touch ProVisioning (ZTP)
- Flexible management with same hardware
- Aruba Central support
- Built-in programmable and easy to use REST API interface
- Out-of-band Ethernet management port
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| Manageability |
- Dual flash images
- Friendly port names
- Find-Fix-Inform
- Multiple configuration files
- Software updates
- RMON, XRMON, and sFlow
- Troubleshooting
- Uni-Directional Link Detection (UDLD)
- IP SLA for voice
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| Layer 2 switching |
- Jumbo packet support
- IEEE 802.1v protocol VLANs
- Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning Tree (RPVST+)
- GVRP and MVRP
- VLAN support and tagging
- VxLAN
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| Layer 3 |
- DHCP server
- Static IP routing
- 256 static and 10,000 RIP route
- Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
- Access OSPF
- Policy-based routing
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| Security |
- Control Plane Policing set rate limit on control protocols to protect CPU overload from DOS attacks
- Multiple user authentication methods
- IEEE 802.1X
- Web-based authentication
- Supports MAC-based authentication
- Authentication flexibility
- Multiple IEEE 802.1X users per port
- Concurrent IEEE 802.1X, Web, and MAC authentication schemes per port
- Access control lists (ACLs)
- Source-port filtering
- RADIUS/TACACS+
- Secure shell
- Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
- Port security
- MAC address lockout
- Secure FTP
- Switch management logon security
- STP BPDU port protection
- DHCP protection
- Dynamic ARP protection
- Dynamic IP lockdown
- STP Root Guard
- Identity-driven ACL
- Per-port broadcast throttling
- Private VLAN
- Open authentication role
- Critical authentication role
- MAC pinning
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| Monitor and diagnostics |
Digital optical monitoring of SFP+ and 1000BASE-T transceivers |