High scalability and high port density

S5560-EI has 4 fixed 10GE ports with expansion slots, supporting multiple types of interface cards: 2-port 10GBaseT / SFP+; 8-port 10GBaseT / SFP+ card; 2-port 40G QSFP+ card. The switch supports up to 12 10G ports or 2 40G ports. The scaling flexibility and the high port density satisfy the requirements for hybrid configuration of copper ports and fiber ports at the distribution layer in large sized networks or at the core layer in SMB sized networks.

High-performance IPv4/IPv6 service capabilities

The S5560-EI switch comes with IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack platform, which provides sophisticated IPv4/IPv6 solutions by supporting multiple tunnels, IPv4/IPv6 Layer 3 routing protocols, multicasting, and policy-based routing. The S5560-EI switch is a mature commercial IPv6 product that has passed the IPv6 network access certification of the Chinese Ministry of industry and Information Technology and the IPv6 Ready Phase Ii certification.

Intelligent Resilient Framework 2 (IRF2)

H3C S5560-EI switch series is pre-built with Intelligent Resilient Framework 2 (IRF2). IRF2 provides the following benefits:

High scalability: With IRF2, plug-n-play device aggregation can be achieved by adding one or more switches into the IRF2 stack and enabling IRF2 stacking on the new device. New devices can be managed with a single IP, and upgraded at the same time to reduce network expansion cost.

High reliability: The IRF2 patented 1:N backup technology allows each slave device in the IRF2 stack to serve as the backup of the master, creating control and data link redundancy, as well as uninterrupted layer-3 forwarding. This improves the reliability, avoids unplanned business downtime and serves to improve overall performance. When the master device fails, traffic remains uninterrupted.

Load balancing: IRF2 supports cross-device link aggregation, upstream and downstream can be connected to more than one physical link, which creates another layer of network redundancy and boosts the network resource utilization.

Availability: H3C Implements IRF2 through standard Forty Gigabit Ethernet (40GE) or Ten Gigabit Ethernet (10GE) ports which allocates bandwidth for business and application access and reasonably splits local traffic and upstream traffic. IRF2 rules can not only be obeyed within and across the rack, but also across the LAN.

Software Defined Network (SDN)

Software Defined Network (SDN) is an innovative network architecture that simplifies network management and reduces maintenance complexity by separating network control layer and network forwarding layer through Openflow. More importantly, it implements flexible network flow control and provides a well-defined network platform for core network application and innovation.

The S5560-EI network switch series supports a large network flow table. Combined with H3C SDN controller, it can easily implement a two-layer network architecture and quickly add functions in existing network in order to drastically reduces network management complexity while substantially lowers network maintenance cost.

Support for multiple services

The S5560-EI switch supports Multi-VRF and can operate as an MCE device. It supports Layer 3 MPLS VPN and Layer 2 MPLS VPN in Martini mode and Kompella mode. Working with the H3C MPLS VPN Manager, the switch can implement graphical MPLS deployment and maintenance. The switch also supports VPLS, providing end-to-end Layer 2 VPN access solutions and MPLS/VPLS wire-speed forwarding, satisfying large scaled VPLS deployment requirements.

Multiple high availability measures

The S5560-EI switch series supports high availability at device level and link level.

The S5560-EI switch series adopts hot swappable dual-power supply and dual fan module design, which allows you to configure AC or DC power supplies as needed. The switch can detect faults in power supplies and fans, and will if any such faults are found, respond with an alarm. It can automatically adjust fan speed according to the temperature.

Apart from device level redundancy, the S5560-EI series switch also provides diverse link redundancy support such as LACP/STP/RSTP/MSTP/Smart Link protocols. It supports IRF2 and 1: N redundancy backup as well as cross-device link aggregation which substantially increases network reliability.

Abundant QoS policies

The S5560-EI switch series supports packet filtering at Layer 2 through Layer 4, and traffic classification based on source MAC addresses, destination MAC addresses, source IP addresses, destination IP addresses, TCP/UDP port numbers, protocol types, and VLANs. It supports flexible queue scheduling algorithms based on ports and queues, including strict priority (SP), weighted round Robin (WRR), SP+WRR, weighted fair queuing (WFQ), and WDRR. The S5560-EI switch series enables committed access rate (CAR) with the minimum granularity of 8 kbps. It supports port mirroring in the outbound and inbound directions, to monitor the packets on the specific ports, and to mirror the packets to the monitor port for network detection and troubleshooting.

Professional Anti-lighting function

The S5560-EI switch series uses built-in lighting protection technology and supports industry leading switch port 6KV anti-lighting capability, which can greatly reduce the rate of lightning damage to the equipment.

Enhanced PoE+ capability

H3C S5560-EI switch series supports 802.3af/802.3at PoE function, single port can provide maximum 30w, providing power to connected devices, such as IP phones, wireless APs, and high power cameras. H3C S5560-EI switch series supports multiple PoE modules for flexible PoE output selections, single switch can provide total 1440W PoE power, 30w per port and total 48 ports PoE+ function.

Excellent manageability

The S5560-EI switch series supports abundant management ports, such as the console port, mini-USB and the out-of-band network management port. It supports the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) v1/v2/v3, Open View, IMC, CLI, Web-based NMS and Telnet allowing easy device management. It also supports SSH2.0 to provide better protection management.

The S5560-EI switch supports SPAN/RSPAN/ERSPAN mirroring, and multiple mirroring ports so that network traffic can be analyzed to carry out corresponding management and maintenance measures and traffic of network services and applications is visible. The S5500-HI switch provides network stream analysis reports, which help users to promptly optimize the network structure and adjust resource deployment.