The Force10 E300 enterprise chassis switch is the entry-level product of the Terascale E-Series switch/router models.This line of Gigabit Ethernet switching and routing hardware offers enterprise-class resiliency, scalability and performance. The Force10 E300 features full L2 switching and L3 routing capabilities. Ideal for applications spanning LANs, MANs and WANs like Clustering, Grid Computing, Campus backbones, next-gen Internet Exchanges, and Metro Ethernet Services.

HIGHLITS:

• 400Gbps non-blocking switch fabric
• 6 line card slots
• 196 million packets/second
• 1/6 19" rack chassis form factor
• 48 high-density 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports
• 12 line-rate 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports
• 288 high-density Gigabit Ethernet ports
• 132 line-rate Gigabit Ethernet ports

FEATURES:

The E300 features are unique non-block architecture that provides 56.25 Gbps bandwidth to each line card, as well as advanced queuing, jumbo frame support and multicasting, including:

• IGMP, IGMP v2
• PIM-DM & PIM-SM
• Multi-protocol Extensions for BGP4 (MBGP)
• Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
• ietf-draft PIM BSR
• ietf-draft IGMP Snooping

IPv6 is also supported in the Force10 E300, including:

• 2460 Specification
• 2461 Neighbor Discovery
• 2463 ICMPv6
• 2464 Transmission of IPv6 Packets
• 3513 Addressing
• 3587 Unicast Address Format
• and forwarding table support on every line card, for up to 32,000 IPv6 routes (512,000 if IPv4)

Other Features:

• Up to 4,000 VLANs
• 192,000 maximum MAC entries
• 255 link aggregation groups
• 16 link aggregation members
• 9,252 bytes for jumbo frames
• maximum 1,100 IP interfaces
• maximum 100,000 ARP entries
• RIP, OSPF
• IS-IS, BGP
• 196 Mbps forwarding capacity