Datasheet

Superior Management
An industry-standard command-line interface (CLI), accessed
through the console port or Telnet/SSH, provides a familiar user
interface and command set for users to manage the switch.
An embedded user-friendly web interface helps users to quickly
and simply configure switches.
The ECS501P supports SNMPv1,2c,3 and four-group RMON. The
switch provides a complete private MIB for the configuration of
most functions via the SNMP protocol.
Administrators can backup and restore firmware and
configuration files via TFTP or FTP. The switch also provides the
configuration of auto-provision for ease of use in large
deployments.
AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting) via RADIUS,
TACACS+, enables centralized control of the switches. Access
rights can be authorized per user and account for all actions
performed by administrators.
Service Monitoring and Management
The ECS501P supports IEEE 802.1ag 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 dispatching an engineer onsite.
The switch also provides the capability to monitor service
availability, delay, jitter, and dropped packets for verifying SLA
conformance (for billing purposes) and providing advance
indication of performance degradation before a service outage
occurs.
Virtual Private Networks
The ECS501P supports Layer 2 VPNs by using Q-in-Q functions,
where an 802.1Q tag from a customer VLAN (called CE-VLAN ID)
is encapsulated in a second 802.1Q tag from a service-provider
network (called an SP-VLAN ID). The switch supports rewriting
the VLAN tag of egress traffic when the ingress traffic is tagged.
The switch also supports Layer 2 Protocol Tunneling for STP,
CDP, VTP, PVST+, with Cisco-proprietary multicast address
(01-00-0c-cd-cd-d0) replacement.
Reliability and Energy Efficiency
The design of the ECS501P incorporates high energy efficiency in
order to reduce the impact on the environment. The Green
Ethernet power-saving features and fan-less design significantly
reduce the power consumption.
Private VLANs (traffic segmentation per port) isolate edge ports
to ensure user privacy.
DAI (Dynamic ARP Inspection) is a security feature that validates
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) packets in a network. DAI
allows a network administrator to intercept, log, and discard ARP
packets with invalid MAC-to-IP address bindings.
Secure Shell (SSH) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL/HTTPS)
encrypt Telnet and web access to the switch, providing secure
network management.
The ECS501P also supports both RADIUS and TACACS+
authentication methods to secure your network.
Comprehensive QoS
The ECS501P offers advanced QoS for marking, classification,
and scheduling to deliver best-in-class performance for data,
voice, and video traffic at wire speed. Eight egress queues per
port enable differentiated management of up to eight traffic
types through the switch.
Traffic is prioritized according to 802.1p and DSCP to provide
optimal performance for real-time applications. Weighted Round
Robin (WRR) and strict priority ensure differential prioritization of
packet flows and avoid congestion of ingress and egress queues.
Asymmetric bidirectional rate-limiting, per port or per traffic
class, preserves network bandwidth and allows maximum
control of network resources.
Robust Multicast Control
IGMP snooping prevents the flooding of multicast traffic by
dynamically configuring switch ports so that multicast traffic is
forwarded to only those ports associated with an IP multicast
receiver. IGMP increases the performance of networks by
reducing multicast traffic flooding.
IGMP groups allow you to create customer packages for IP-TV
channels, making switch configuration easy. IGMP Filtering
prevents subscribers seeing unsubscribed IP-TV channels. And,
IGMP Throttling allows you to set how many IP-TV channels a
subscriber can receive simultaneously.
Multicast VLANs are shared in the network, while subscribers
remain in separate VLANs. This increases network security and
saves bandwidth on core links. Multicast streams do not have to
be routed in core L3 switches, which saves CPU power.
Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR) is designed for applications
such as Media-on-Demand that send multicast traffic across an
Ethernet network.
IPv6 Support
The switch supports a number of IPv6 features, including IPv6
Management, DHCPv6 Snooping with Option 37, IPv6 Source
Guide, and MVR6.
ECS501P L2+/L3 Lite Switch