BNT 1-10Gb Uplink Ethernet Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter

The BNT 1/10Gb Uplink Ethernet Switch Module includes the following standard features and functions:

• Internal ports:

• 14 internal full-duplex Gigabit ports, one connected to each of the blade servers
• Two internal full-duplex 10/100 Mbps ports connected to the management module

• External ports:

• Three slots for 10 Gb Ethernet SFP+ transceivers (support for 10GBASE-SR or 10GBASE-LR) or SFP+ copper direct-attach cables (DAC); SFP+ modules are optional
• Six 10/100/1000 1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet ports with RJ-45 connectors
• One RS-232 serial port that provides an additional means to install software and configure the switch module

• Scalability and performance:

• Fixed-speed external 10 Gb Ethernet ports for maximum uplink bandwidth
• Autosensing 10/1000/1000 external Gigabit Ethernet ports for bandwidth optimization
• Non-blocking architecture with wire-speed forwarding of traffic
• Media access control (MAC) address learning: automatic update, support of up to 16 K MAC addresses
• Up to 128 IP interfaces per switch
• Static and LACP (IEEE 802.3ad) link aggregation, up to 36 Gb of total bandwidth per switch, up to 16 trunk groups, up to six ports per group
• Support for jumbo frames (up to 9216 bytes)
• Broadcast/multicast storm control
• IGMP snooping for limit flooding of IP multicast traffic
• IGMP filtering to control multicast traffic for hosts participating in multicast groups
• Configurable traffic distribution schemes over trunk links based on source/destination IP or MAC addresses or both
• Fast port forwarding and fast uplink convergence for rapid STP convergence

• Availability and redundancy:

• Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) for Layer 3 router redundancy
• IEEE 802.1D STP for providing L2 redundancy
• IEEE 802.1s Multiple STP (MSTP) for topology optimization, up to 128 STP instances are supported by single switch
• IEEE 802.1w Rapid STP (RSTP) provides rapid STP convergence for critical delay-sensitive traffic like voice or video
• Layer 2 Trunk Failover to support active/standby configurations of network adapter teaming on blades
• Interchassis redundancy (L2 and L3)

• VLAN support:

• Up to 1024 VLANs supported per switch, with VLAN numbers ranging from 1 to 4095 (4095 is used for management module’s connection only)
• 802.1Q VLAN tagging support on all ports
• Private VLANs

• Security:

• VLAN-based, MAC-based, and IP-based ACLs
• 802.1X port-based authentication
• Multiple user IDs and passwords
• User access control
• Radius/TACACS+
• Quality of Service (QoS):

• Support for IEEE 802.1p, IP ToS/DSCP, and ACL-based (MAC/IP source and destination addresses, VLANs) traffic classification and processing
• Traffic shaping and re-marking based on defined policies
• Eight Weighted Round Robin (WRR) priority queues per port for processing qualified traffic

• Layer 3 functions:

• IP forwarding
• IP filtering with ACLs, up to 896 ACLs supported
• VRRP for router redundancy
• Support for up to 128 static routes
• Routing protocol support (RIP v1, RIP v2, OSPF v2, BGP-4), up to 2048 entries in a routing table
• Support for DHCP Relay
• IPv6 host management support

• Manageability:

• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP V1 and V3)
• HTTP browser GUI
• Telnet interface for CLI
• SSH
• Serial interface for CLI
• Scriptable CLI
• Firmware image update (TFTP and FTP)
• Network Time Protocol (NTP) for switch clock synchronization

• Monitoring:

• Switch LEDs for external port status and switch module status indication
• Port mirroring for analyzing network traffic passing through switch
• Change tracking and remote logging with syslog feature
• POST diagnostics
• Special functions:

• Support for Serial over LAN (SOL)

• Standards supported:

The switch module supports the following IEEE standards:

• IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
• IEEE 802.1s Multiple STP (MSTP)
• IEEE 802.1w Rapid STP (RSTP)
• IEEE 802.1p Tagged Packets
• IEEE 802.1Q Tagged VLAN (frame tagging on all ports when VLANs are enabled)
• IEEE 802.1x port-based authentication
• IEEE 802.2 Logical Link Control
• IEEE 802.3 10BASE-T Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3u 100BASE-TX Fast Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3z 1000BASE-X Gigabit Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol
• IEEE 802.3x Full-duplex Flow Control
• IEEE 802.3ae 10GBASE-SR

 

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