The ProCurve Switch 5400zl/3500yl series consists of the most advanced intelligent edge switches in the ProCurve Networking product line. The 5400zl series includes 6-slot and 12-slot chassis and associated zl modules and bundles, and the 3500yl series includes 24-port and 48-port stackables. The foundation for all these switches is a purpose-built, programmable ProVision ASIC that allows the most demanding networking features, such as QoS and security, to be implemented in a scalable yet granular fashion. With a variety of Gigabit interfaces, integrated PoE on all 10/100/1000Base-T ports, 10-GbE capability, and a choice of form factors, the 5400zl/3500yl switches offer excellent investment protection, flexibility, and scalability, as well as ease of deployment, operation, and maintenance.

Features:

Performance
– 5400zl/3500yl architecture: 115 to 692 Gbps crossbar switching fabric provides intra- and inter-module switching with 36 to 428 million pps throughput on purpose-built ProVision ASIC

Connectivity
– 802.3af Power over Ethernet: provides up to 15.4 W per port to power compliant PoE devices such as IP phones, wireless access points, and security cameras
– Pre-standard PoE support: Detects and provides power to pre-standard PoE devices
– Jumbo frames: On Gigabit and 10-Gigabit ports, allow high-performance remote backup and disaster-recovery services
– ProCurve/IEEE Auto-MDIX: Automatically adjusts for straight-through or crossover cables on all 10/100/1000 ports

Resiliency and high availability
– Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (requires Premium Edge License): VRRP allows groups of two routers to dynamically back each other up to create highly available routed environments
– 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol: provides high link availability in multiple VLAN environments by allowing multiple spanning trees; encompasses 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol and 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
– 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) and ProCurve trunking: support up to 36 trunks, each with up to 8 links (ports) per trunk; trunking across modules is supported
– Hot-swappable modules (5400zl series): permit modules, mini-GBICs, and power supplies in a redundant power supply configuration to be added or swapped without interrupting the network
– Optional redundant power supply (5400zl series): provides uninterrupted power and allows hot-swapping of the redundant power supplies when installed

Layer 2 switching
– ProCurve switch meshing: dynamically loadbalances across multiple active redundant links to increase available aggregate bandwidth
– VLAN support and tagging: support complete 802.1Q standard and 2,048 VLANs simultaneously
– 802.1v protocol VLANs: isolate select non-IPv4 protocols automatically into their own VLANs
– Group VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP): allows automatic learning and dynamic assignment of VLANs

Layer 3 IP routing
– Static IP routing: provides basic routing
– RIP: provides RIPv1 and RIPv2 routing at media speed
– OSPF (requires Premium Edge license): includes ECMP to provide link redundancy and scalable bandwidth

Layer 3 services
– UDP helper function: UDP broadcasts can be directed across router interfaces to specific IP unicast or subnet broadcast addresses and prevent server spoofing for UDP services such as DHCP

Security
– Switch CPU protection: provides automatic protection against malicious network traffic trying to shut down the switch
– Virus throttling: detects traffic patterns typical of WORM-type viruses and either throttles or entirely prevents the ability of the virus to spread across the routed VLANs, without requiring external appliances
– ICMP throttling: defeats ICMP denial-ofservice attacks by enabling any switch port to automatically throttle ICMP traffic

Convergence
– IP multicast routing (requires Premium Edge license): includes PIM Sparse and Dense modes to route IP multicast traffic
– IP multicast snooping (data-driven IGMP): automatically prevents flooding of IP multicast traffic
– LLDP-MED (Media Endpoint Discovery): a standard extension of LLDP that stores values for parameters such as QoS and VLAN to automatically configure network devices such as IP phones
– iSCSI support: enables the deployment of Ethernet storage area network solutions using the iSCSI standard