Netgear AFT603 Product Data Sheet - Page 6

ProSAFE® LAN Access and Aggregation Chassis Switches Data Sheet M6100 series Distributed Link Aggregation, also called Port Channeling or Port Trunking, offers powerful network redundancy and load balancing between I/O blades • Servers and other network devices benefit from greater bandwidth capacity with active-active teaming (LACP-link aggregation control protocol) • From a system perspective, a LAG (Link Aggregation Group) is treated as a physical port by M6100 Chassis switch for even more simplicity Multi Chasssis Link Aggregation (MLAG) offers Link Aggregation benefits across two M6100 Chassis switches (currently supported on Supervisory blade only) • Servers and other network partner devices are oblivious to the fact that they are pairing with two M6100 Chassis switches to form a LAG • Instead, the two M6100 Chassis switches appear as a single device to the partner • All links can carry data traffic and in case of link or device failures, the traffic can continue to flow with minimal disruption Rapid Spanning Tree (RSTP) and Multiple Spanning Tree (MSTP) allow for rapid transitionning of the ports to the Forwarding state and the suppression of Topology Change Notification NETGEAR PVSTP implementation (CLI only) follows the same rules than other vendor's Per VLAN STP for strict interoperability • Including industry-standard PVST+ interoperability • PVSTP is similar to the MSTP protocol as defined by IEEE 802.1s, the main difference being PVSTP runs one instance per VLAN • In other words, each configured VLAN runs an independent instance of PVSTP • Each PVRSTP instance elects a root bridge independent of the other • Hence there are as many Root Bridges in the region as there are VLANs configured • Per VLAN RSTP has in built support for FastUplink and FastBackbone IP address conflict detection performed by embedded DHCP servers prevents accidental IP address duplicates from perturbing the overall network stability IP Event Dampening reduces the effect of interface flaps on routing protocols: the routing protocols temporarily disable their processing (on the unstable interface) until the interface becomes stable, thereby greatly increasing the overall stability of the network Ease of deployment Automatic configuration with DHCP and BootP Auto Install eases large deployments with a scalable configuration files management capability, mapping IP addresses and host names and providing individual configuration files to multiple switches as soon as they are initialized on the network Both the Chassis Switch Serial Number and primary MAC address are reported by a simple "show hardware" command in CLI - facilitating discovery and remote configuration operations M6100 DHCP L2 Relay agents eliminate the need to have a DHCP server on each physical network or subnet • DHCP Relay agents process DHCP messages and generate new DHCP messages • Supports DHCP Relay Option 82 circuit-id and remote-id for VLANs • DHCP Relay agents are typically IP routing-aware devices and can be referred to as Layer 3 relay agent Automatic Voice over IP prioritization with Auto-VoIP simplifies most complex multi-vendor IP telephones deployments either based on protocols (SIP, H323 and SCCP) or on OUI bytes (default database and user-based OUIs) in the phone source MAC address; providing the best class of service to VoIP streams (both data and signaling) over other ordinary traffic by classifying traffic, and enabling correct egress queue configuration An associated Voice VLAN can be easily configured with Auto-VoIP for further traffic isolation When deployed IP phones are LLDP-MED compliant, the Voice VLAN will use LLDP-MED to pass on the VLAN ID, 802.1P priority and DSCP values to the IP phones, accelerating convergent deployments Versatile connectivity Up to 6,000 Watts PoE budget depending on number • M6100 configurators are available at www.netgear.com/m6100 under the Resources tab of power supplies and I/O blades combination XCM8948 (48 x 1G RJ45) and XCM8944 (40 x 1G RJ45; 2 x 10GBASE-T; 2 x SFP+) can be equipped with a PoE daughter card for PoE+ (30W) or UPOE (60W) These I/O blades can be upgraded with PoE at any point of time, and possibly downgraded if the application has changed IEEE 802.3at Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+) provides up to 30W power per port using 2 pairs while offering backward compatilibity with 802.3af • XCM89P daughter card supports PoE (802.3af) and PoE+ (802.3at) • XCM89UP daughter card supports PoE (802.3af), PoE+ (802.3at) and UPOE (Universal Power over Ethernet) • IEEE 802.3at Layer 2 LLDP method and 802.3at PoE+ 2-event classification method fully supported for compatibility with most PoE+ PD devices Page 6 of 48