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3COM® SWITCH 8800 FAMILY
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NTERPRISE-WIDE SECURITY
Security is paramount in today’s enterprise and as dependency on
i
nformation technology continues to rise, so does the need for highly
secure IT systems and infrastructure. The 3Com Switch 8800 Family
features advanced security capabilities, including user and device
authentication, policy-based access controls, encrypted system management
a
ccess and quarantine enforcement for containment of vulnerabilities and
deliberate attacks.
The Switch 8800 provides secure network access using standard IEEE
8
02.1X along with with user- and device-based access control capabili-
ties. RADIUS support enables user authentication, while the switch is
also able to authenticate attached devices (printers, for example) via
their MAC address for an additional level of endpoint security. Port-
and VLAN-based Access Control Lists (ACLs) and dynamic traffic filter-
ing capabilities can be deployed to further control access to network
resources.
Additional security measures are enforced on access to switch manage-
ment utilities via Secure Shell version 2 (SSH v2) and SNMP v3 with
authentication and encryption of network management traffic.
The Switch 8800 family functions as an integral part of the 3Com
Quarantine Protection solution to automate containment of security
threats on the enterprise network. 3Com Quarantine integrates the
industry-leading TippingPoint
™
Intrusion Prevention System with
switch-based endpoint enforcement at the network edge.
SCALABLE PERFORMANCE
With its 1.44 Terabits-per-second-capable backplane and wire-speed
switching capacity, the Switch 8800 provides exceptional scalability
for core, data center, distribution and edge environments within the
enterprise. System performance and connectivity options can be tailored
to each environment with a wide selection of switching modules, scaling
up to 48 10-Gigabit ports or 576 Gigabit ports in a single chassis.
The flexible design of the Switch 8800 allows for any combination of
s
witching modules to be used in a single system, allowing easy e
xpansion
of network capacity, accommodating a range of port densities and media
types for 10-Gigabit and Gigabit Ethernet.
Installation of the optional second switch fabric increases performance
from 360 Gbps to 720 Gbps
, as the f
a
brics ar
e load-sharing. Each
switching I/O module provides on-board local multilayer switching,
maximizing system performance and application response times; adding
modules incr
eases the aggregate system performance, to a maximum
Layer 2/3 switching capacity of 428 Mpps. In addition, the backplane
is designed to accommodate higher
-performing s
witch fabrics.
Standards-based link aggregation (via IEEE 802.3ad) allows scalable,
high-bandwidth interconnectivity between network devices, with the
a
bility to aggregate multiple Gigabit or 10-Gigabit links together as a
single “trunk”. Link aggregation of ports is supported across modules
within the Switch 8800 for virtually non-stop network availability.
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KEY BENEFITS
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