ZXR10 5100 Series L2 All Gigabit Intelligent Ethernet Switches

With further development on broadband networks, 1000Mbps aggregation has been adopted for a long time. As the number of 1000Mbps ports is increasingly used for all latest generation terminal equipment, 1000Mbps to the desktop will be the trend for future development. In addition as most of the network data center servers (e.g. VOD server, multicasting server and file server etc) would use 1000Mbps for network access, therefore, various networks are now having more and more demand for 1000Mbps access.

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Features and Specifications

• Carrier-Class Reliability
  ZESR which is ZTE patent technology is used to implement Ethernet Ring Protection, shortens the self-healing time of the links, and the switchover time of Ethernet Ring is less than 50ms.
• Wire-Speed Forwarding and Filtering
  ASIC hardware switching is used to ensure the wire-speed forwarding of L2 packets. ASIC hardware filtering is used to ensure packets filtering on L2-L4 and wire-speed performance of L2-L4 ACL.
• IPTV Controllable Multicast
  ZXR10 5100 supports complete controllable multicasting protocols, including IGMP Snooping /IGMP Filter /IGMP Fast Leave /IGMP Proxy, CAC channel access control, PRV channel preview, multicasting VLAN registration and multicasting service management.
• Powerful Security and QOS Performance
  With powerful flow control and security performance, the equipment supports the classification and filtering of flow from L2 to L7. It supports powerful hardware ACL feature. Supporting per-VLAN L2 ACL and extended ACL, and supports time-based ACL. Support for complete QOS policy and diverse queue scheduling algorithms, WRED congestion avoidance mechanisms and per-port flow shaping. Equipment provides 8-level priority queue, and supports the bundle and filtering of MAC address, as well as broadcast storm suppression.
• Interfaces
  Specifically designed for the access layer of enterprise networks and broadband IP MANs, ZTE ZXR10 5100 series low-end all-gigabit intelligent Ethernet switches provide low to medium density of all-gigabit Ethernet ports.

Architecture and Key Components

The ZXR10 5100 series switches are designed with leading ASIC hardware forwarding technologies, where all forwarding functions are performed by hardware, thus ensuring wire-speed forwarding capability of the ports. The ASIC can perform L2 switching, and L2-L4 traffic filtering at wire speed. It defines pure GE L2 user Ethernet switch for users’ GE access. They are divided based on system functions into: control module, switching module, interface module, and power supply module.

The software system of the ZXR10 5100 series switches uses ESROS platform software as its core. This platform software provides a great variety of protocol stacks required for L2, L3, and provides unified interfaces to its lower layers.

The NM and Operation & Maintenance module provides user management interface for the switch. This module allows users to manage and operate with the switch through a wide variety of means such as RS232 interface, Telnet, SSH, and SNMP, etc.

ZXR10 5100 series has been deployed in commercial networks for years.