Datasheet

CUSTOMER RELEASE NOTES
6/03/2010 P/N: 9038247-01 Subject to Change Without Notice Page: 3 of 13
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Increased Stacking Performance – C5 switches support a 25% increase in performance over the C3. Note
that this improved performance requires that new stacking cables be used when stacking C5 swtiches.
No Backwards Stacking – The C5 switches do not stack with the previous generation C-Series products
(Enterasys C2 or C3).
Single License for Advanced IPv4 and IPv6 Routing – Separate licenses for advanced multicast IPv4 routing
and IPv6 routing no longer exist. One advanced routing license (C5L3-LIC) enables advanced IPv4 multicast
routing and IPv6 routing capability.
Greatly Improved Policy Capabilities – More policy users per port (up to 8), more rules per profile (250), more
profiles (up to 63) and more rules per switch (up to 3072). See Policy Capacities for C5 Only for more details.
Larger Routing Tables – Route table sizes have basically doubled. See Router Capacities for C5 Only for
details.
100Base-FX Support on All SFP Ports – 100Base-FX transceivers are now supported in every SFP port on
the C5 models.
SFP+ Ports with 1Gb and 10Gb Transceiver Support – C5K switches have SFP+ ports that can support
either a 1Gb transceiver (MGBIC) or a 10Gb transceiver (SFPP).
Product Features
Hybrid Policy Mode
VLAN-to-Policy Mapping via hybrid mode
LLDP-MED Network-Policy TLV
sFlow support
TACACS+ management
ACLs per VLAN
Extended ACLs
Host Protect
Secure Copy / Secure FTP (SCP/SFTP)
AES-128 support with SNMPv3
Power Supply & Fan Monitoring via SNMP
Selectable source management interfaces
Copy & Paste of configuration files between switches
RFC3580 dynamic VLAN assignment based on PWA
Multi-user authentication per port (up to 3 policy users
per port)
Support for 10GBASE SFP+ transceivers
Multiport LAG to single port LAG automatic failover
100Base-FX MGBIC support in SFP ports
DHCP Spoof Protection
ARP Spoof Protection
IP Forward-Protocol command
High-Temperature Alerts
Control mdi/mdix port settings via CLI to prevent
network loops
TDR-based cable status check detects cable breaks
and disconnections
Show support command
Configurable Login Banner
Enterasys Policy (role-based L2/L3/L4 access control,
QoS, and rate limiting)
48 Gbps Full Duplex (96 Gbps bidirectional)
closed-loop stacking
802.1D
32K MAC Address Table
802.1Q - VLAN Tagging
Selectable MAC Hashing Algorithms
802.1p - Traffic Management / Mapping to 6 Queues
Auto-Negotiation
802.3x Flow Control
8 Priority Queues per Port
802.3ad – Dynamic and Static Creation for Link
Aggregation (6 LAGs, 8 ports per LAG)
Session-Timeout and Termination-Action RADIUS
Attributes Support
802.1s – Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol
(up to 4 instances)
Ability to Set Port Advertised Ability via CLI
802.1w – Rapid Spanning Tree
Multi-method Authentication
RFC-3580 dynamic VLAN assignment based on
802.1X or MAC Authentication
Multiple RFC3580 Users per port (up to 8)
Spanning Tree Backup Root
User + IP Phone Authentication