HP 5400R zl2 Installation and Getting Started Guide

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Introducing the HP 5400R zl2 Switches
Switch Features
Introducing the HP 5400R zl2
Switches
Switch Features
The features of the 5400R zl2 switches include:
■ Modules can be installed in any order and in any combination and can the
“hot swapped”
■ Supported transceivers can be hot swapped
■ High performance—The 5406R zl2 Switch has a routing/switching
capacity of 496.8 Gbps, with a switch fabric speed of 561.6 Gbps and a
throughput of 396 Mbps, and the 5412R zl2 Switch has a routing/switching
capacity of 993.6 Gbps, with a switch fabric speed of 1123.2 Gbps and a
throughput of 792 Mbps
■ Plug-and-play networking—all ports are enabled—just connect the
network cables to active network devices and your switched network is
operational
■ Automatic learning of the network addresses in the switch’s 16,000-
address forwarding table, with configurable address aging value
■ Full-duplex operation available on all ports
■ Easy management of the switch through several available interfaces:
• web browser interface—an easy to use built-in graphical interface
that can be accessed from common web browsers
• console interface—a full featured, easy to use, VT-100 terminal inter-
face for out-of-band switch management, or for TELNET access to
the switch. The console includes complete switch management
through a command lineinterface (CLI) and a slightly reduced feature
set accessible through an intuitive menu interface
• Intelligent Management Center— a SOA based HP Network manage-
ment application that accurately discovers and displays your switch
on network maps and provides a graphical interface for configuring
and monitoring your switch
■ Support for the Spanning Tree Protocol to eliminate network loops
■ Support for up to 2048 IEEE 802.1Q-compliant VLANs so you can divide
the attached end nodes into logical groupings that fit your business needs
■ Layer 3 routing functionality:
• Static IP routing — provides manually configured routing for both
IPv4 and IPv6 networks
• Routing Information Protocol (RIP) — provides RIPv1 and RIPv2
routing