Product Overview; Features And Benefits; Key Features - HP 5500 HI Quickspecs

QuickSpecs
Overview

Key features

High expandability for investment protection
Premium resiliency and integrated management
SDN readiness with OpenFlow support
Full-featured IPv4/IPv6 dual stack
1440 W of PoE+ power using dual power supplies for high resiliency

Product overview

The HP 5500 HI Switch Series comprises Gigabit Ethernet switches that deliver outstanding resiliency, security, and multiservice
support capabilities at the edge layer of data center, large campus, and metro Ethernet networks. The switches can also be used in the
core layer of SMB networks.
With Intelligent Resilient Fabric (IRF) support and available dual power supplies, the HP 5500 HI Switch Series can deliver the highest
levels of resiliency and manageability. In addition, the PoE+ models provide up to 1,440 W of PoE+ power with the dual power supply
configuration.
Designed with two fixed 10GbE ports and extension module flexibility, these switches can provide up to six 10GbE uplink or 70 GbE
ports. With complete IPv4/IPv6, OpenFlow, and MPLS/VPLS features, the series provides investment protection with an easy transition
from IPv4 to IPv6 networks.

Features and benefits

Software-defined networking
OpenFlow
supports OpenFlow 1.0 and 1.3 specifications to enable SDN by allowing separation of the data (packet forwarding) and control
(routing decision) paths
Quality of Service (QoS)
Advanced classifier-based QoS
classifies traffic using multiple match criteria based on Layer 2, 3, and 4 information; applies QoS policies such as setting priority
level and rate limit to selected traffic on a per-port or per-VLAN basis
Traffic policing
supports Committed Access Rate (CAR) and line rate
Powerful QoS feature
creates traffic classes based on access control lists (ACLs), IEEE 802.1p precedence, IP, and DSCP or Type of Service (ToS)
precedence; supports filter, redirect, mirror, or remark; supports the following congestion actions: strict priority (SP) queuing,
weighted round robin (WRR), weighted fair queuing (WFQ), weighted random early discard (WRED), weighted deficit round robin
(WDRR), SP+WDRR, and SP+WFQ.
Storm restraint
allows limitation of broadcast, multicast, and unknown unicast traffic rate to reduce unwanted broadcast traffic on the network
Management
Friendly port names
allow assignment of descriptive names to ports
sFlow (RFC 3176)
provides scalable ASIC-based wirespeed network monitoring and accounting with no impact on network performance; this
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