3Com SWITCH 4050 Datasheet

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3Com

®

XRN

™

Interconnect Kit

XRN

™

Technology

The 3Com

®

eXpandable Resilient

Networking (XRN

™

) Interconnect Kit

enables two SuperStack

®

3 Switch 4900

family or two 3Com

®

Switch 4050 and

4060 switches to build an XRN Phase

One Distributed Fabric.

Pay As You Grow

3Com XRN technology lets customers

cost-effectively upgrade their existing

core based on a single SuperStack 3

Switch 4900 or 3Com Switch 4050 

and 4060, to a high-performance, 

high-availability, 48-port multilayer

Gigabit switching core.

Network Level Availability

XRN technology lets customers design

and implement core Gigabit backbones

that feature no single point of failure—

a safeguard against hardware, cabling,

or software failure.

Performance and Scalability

The distributed nature of XRN

technology takes full advantage of the

high-performance, non-blocking

switching capacity of each switch in the

Distributed Fabric—yielding aggregate

forwarding capacity in excess of

70Mpps across the 48 switched Gigabit

ports.

Manageability

XRN Technology enables unprecedented

levels of manageability across the two

switches in the Distributed Fabric, by

offering "plug and play" setup of the

Fabric, single IP address management,

and fabric-wide configuration of all

management, system and port features.

High Performance Layer 3 Switching

An XRN Distributed Fabric uses the

Layer 3 switching capabilitiies of both

switches for greater performance and

scalability but without the complexity

of managing two separate routers.

Distributed Link Aggregation

Configuring ports of an aggregated link

across both switches in a Distributed

Fabric enables wiring closets to be dual-

homed for greater availability and

performance across the network back-

bone.

Flexibility and Migration

An XRN Phase One Distributed Fabric is

built with any combination of SuperStack

3 Switch 4900 family or 3Com Switch

4050 and Switch 4060.

Advanced Security capabilities

Security features such as RADIUS Client

and Routed Access Control Lists ensure

authorized user access to network

resources. Also, Application Filtering

lets the XRN Distributed Fabric identify

and discard unauthorized applications.

Powerful Management

3Com Network Supervisor fully supports

XRN Phase One fabrics and provides

discovery, mapping, monitoring, and

alerting for easy network administration.

Network-wide switch traffic prioritiza-

tion can also be performed. The 3Com

Network Supervisor Advanced Package

increases the number of IP devices 

supported and provides advanced con-

figuration capabilities such as bulk

software upgrades.

Key Benefits