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Ethernet Carrier Grade Switch
ECS4810-12M
L2 Gigabit Ethernet Carrier Grade Switch
Product Overview
The Edgecore ECS4810-12M is a Carrier Ethernet access switch ideal for Ethernet service demarcation, extension, and
aggregation. The ECS4810-12M allows service providers to deliver managed converged services, such as voice, video, and data
over virtual Ethernet and IP networks. With flexible combination Gigabit ports, QoS, advanced operation, administration, and
maintenance (OAM), ITU-T Synchronous Ethernet (Sync-E), and support for extended temperature range environments, the
ECS4810-12M adds value and builds differentiated services over Carrier Ethernet networks.
Key Features and Benefits
Carrier-Class Design
The Edgecore ECS4810-12M is a carrier-grade aggregation
switch that consists of 12 combination Gigabit Ethernet ports.
Any of the combination Gigabit ports can be flexibly assigned
as 1000BASE-X fiber or 10/100/1000BASE-T copper
connections to subscriber-side devices. The other ports can be
assigned as network connections to service-side devices. The
switch is ideal for locating at the edge of broadband-access
networks to aggregate traffic from multiple services.
All interfaces of the ECS4810-12M are located on the same
panel, including the CIT (Craft Interface Terminal) out-of-band
management port, external alarm input/output interface, and
power outlets.
The ECS4810-12M is a carrier grade switch that provides dual
power inputs for AC and DC power, with an operating
temperature range from 0ºC to 60ºC. The fan-less design of the
switch ensures noiseless operation and increases the reliability
of the system.
The ECS4810-12M is designed for high energy efficiency. The
55nm switch controller chipset and Green Ethernet power
saving features significantly reduce power consumption.
Support for dying gasp. When a loss of power is detected, the
dying gasp allows 200 msec for the switch to notify the system
administrator by an SNMP trap.
Continuous Availability
The ECS4810-12M supports G.8032 Ethernet Ring Protection
Switching, with the ability for the network to detect and recover
from incidents without impacting users, meeting the most
demanding quality and availability requirements. Rapid
recovery time when problems do occur is as low as 50 msec.
Service Monitoring and Management
The ECS4810-12M supports IEEE 802.1ag Connectivity Fault
Management (CFM) and ITU-T Y.1731, allowing service
providers to monitor end-to-end services, identify
connectivity and performance issues, and isolate problems
from a remote location without having to dispatch an
engineer to the site.
The switch also provides the capability to monitor service
availability, delay, and dropped packets, for verifying SLA
conformance for billing purposes, and providing advance
indication of performance degradation before a service
outage occurs.
Advanced Synchronization
The ECS4810-12M provides synchronization options
optimized for cellular operators looking to backhaul their
data and voice traffic from base stations to their core
network over Ethernet transport.
The ECS4810-12M supports bit-layer clock recovery
solutions, ITU-T G.8261 Synchronous Ethernet, and provides
a highly robust hop-by-hop frequency mechanism.
Comprehensive QoS
The ECS4810-12M supports Two Rate Three Color Marker
and Policing, Committed Information Rate (CIR) two rate,
CIR + Peak Information Rate (PIR) Traffic Policing, and drop
or remark of priority tags for packets that exceed burst size.
Virtual Private Network
The ECS4810-12M supports L2 Virtual Private Networks
(VPNs) by using Q-in-Q functions, where an 802.1Q tag from
a customer VLAN (called a CE-VLAN ID) is encapsulated in
a second 802.1Q tag from a service-provider network
(called an SP-VLAN ID). The switch supports the rewrite of
VLAN tags for egress traffic when the ingress traffic is VLAN
tagged.
There is also support of L2 Protocol Tunneling for STP, CDP,
LLDP, VTP, and PVST+, with Cisco proprietary multicast
address (01-00-0C-CD-CD-D0) replacement.
Layer2 PDU filtering allows a service provider to specify
which Layer2 PDUs are to be dropped at an ingress
interface on a provider edge switch.
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