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Ultrafast protocol convergence (sub second) with standard-based failure detection—Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
(BFD)
Enables link connectivity monitoring and reduces network convergence time for the routing information protocol (RIP), OSPF,
BGP, IS-IS, VRRP, MPLS, and IRF
Smart link
allows 100 ms failover between links (Comware v5 only)
Multiple internal power supplies
provides high reliability; 10504 switch provides 3+1 redundancy; 10508, 10508-V, and 10512 switches provide 5+1 redundancy
Virtual private network (VPN)
IPSec
provides secure tunneling over an untrusted network such as the Internet or a wireless network; offers data confidentiality,
authenticity, and integrity between two network endpoints
Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
transports Layer 2 connectivity over a Layer 3 path in a secured way; enables the segregation of traffic from site to site
Manual or automatic Internet Key Exchange (IKE)
provides both manual or automatic key exchange required for the algorithms used in encryption or authentication; auto-IKE
allows automated management of the public key exchange, providing the highest levels of encryption
Management
Management interface control
enables or disables each of the following interfaces depending on security preferences: console port, telnet port, or reset button
Industry-standard CLI with a hierarchical structure
reduces training time and expenses, and increases productivity in multivendor installations
Management security
restricts access to critical configuration commands; offers multiple privilege levels with password protection; ACLs provide
telnet and SNMP access; local and remote syslog capabilities allow logging of all access
SNMPv1, v2, and v3
provide complete support of SNMP; provide full support of industry-standard Management Information Base (MIB) plus private
extensions; SNMPv3 supports increased security using encryption
sFlow (RFC 3176)
provides scalable ASIC-based wirespeed network monitoring and accounting with no impact on network performance; this
allows network operators to gather a variety of sophisticated network statistics and information for capacity planning and real-
time network monitoring purposes
Remote monitoring (RMON)
Uses standard SNMP to monitor essential network functions; and supports events, alarms, history, and statistics groups as well
as a private alarm extension group
FTP, TFTP, and SFTP support
offers different mechanisms for configuration updates; FTP allows bidirectional transfers over a TCP/IP network; trivial FTP
(TFTP) is a simpler method using User Datagram Protocol (UDP); Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) runs over an SSH tunnel to
provide additional security
Debug and sampler utility
supports ping and traceroute for both IPv4 and IPv6
Network Time Protocol (NTP)
synchronizes timekeeping among distributed time servers and clients; keeps timekeeping consistent among all clock-dependent
devices within the network so that the devices can provide diverse applications based on the consistent time
Network Quality Analyzer (NQA)
analyzes network performance and service quality by sending test packets, and provides network performance and service
QuickSpecs
HP 10500 Switch Series
Overview
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