Allied Telesis 16fi User Manual
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Datasheet | Switches
RAPIER 'i' SERIES
WAN Capable Layer 3 Fast Ethernet Switches
Rapier 16fi
16 port 100FX (SC or MT-RJ) Fast Ethernet
Layer 3 switch with 2 uplink bays and WAN
access bay
Rapier 24i
24 port 10/100TX Fast Ethernet Layer 3
switch with 2 uplink bays and WAN access
bay
Rapier 48i
48 port 10/100TX Fast Ethernet Layer 3
switch with 2 uplink bays
Performance
Allied Telesis' Rapier 'i' series of 10/100Mbps
Layer 3 switches deliver an unprecedented level
of integration, feature richness and switching
performance at affordable prices. With wirespeed
Layer 2 switching and wirespeed Layer 3 IP
routing on all ports, these switches are designed
for high-performance desktop connectivity,
workgroup and server farm aggregation or
backbone applications. In addition to the
impressive switching performance, the Rapier 'i'
series brings a large set of optional high-level
Layer 3 and security features for more advanced
networking applications.
Progressive Features
All Allied Telesis' Layer 3 switches come with the
feature rich operating system AlliedWare, which
includes Layer 3 IP Static Routing, RIP, RIPv2, VRRP
and OSPFv2 routing protocols. For advanced
networking applications Allied Telesis offers the
Rapier 'i' series with three optional feature
licenses: Full Layer 3 upgrade, Advanced Layer 3
upgrade, and Security upgrade. The Full Layer 3
upgrade enables a set of additional routing
protocols such as IPX, DVMRP, VRRP, PIMDM/SM and RSVP. The Advanced Layer 3
upgrade provides a set of the specialized
protocols consisting of IPv6, BGP4, and Load
Balancer. The Security upgrade offers an ICSAcertified Stateful Inspection Firewall as well as
both SMTP and HTTP application gateways.
WAN Support - Rapier Switch/Router
The Rapier 16fi and 24i models support an
optional Network Services Module (NSM) with
a variety of Port Interface Cards (PICs) to
provide Wide Area Network connectivity for
E1,T1, PRI ISDN, BRI ISDN, Asynchronous and
Synchronous communications, Frame Relay and
X.25.The AlliedWare operating system provides
Layer 3 IP static routing, RIP, RIPv2,VRRP and
OSPFv2 routing protocols, while optional
specialized protocols are also available such as
BGP4, IPX, RSVP and the multicast routing
protocols of DVMRP and PIM-DM/SM.These
routing features give the Rapier 16fi and 24i the
ability to not only act as a managed Layer 3
switch, but also as a fully specified router with
four WAN interfaces.
Switching Features
The Rapier 'i' series of switches are some of the
most powerful switches on the market. All
Rapier 'i' Layer 3 switches include a suite of
advanced switching features such as IEEE
802.1Q VLAN Tagging, IGMPv2, 802.1p Traffic
Prioritization of packets at Layer 3 and Layer 4,
and broadcast and multicast traffic control.The
Quality of Service (QoS) features offered by the
Rapier 'i' series are particularly useful for multitenant unit, multi business unit,Telco, or
Network Service Provider applications.
Return on Investment
Today's economy demands that network
investments provide a Return On Investment
sooner rather than later. Cost effectiveness is
achieved three ways. First, Rapier 'i' is the first
Layer 3 switch with an integrated WAN router.
Networks using a Layer 3 switch that does not
support WAN routing need to incorporate
additional router equipment at extra expense.
Second, Rapier 'i' has three optional feature
licences so you only pay for the specialized
features you need. Third, the Rapier 'i' series of
switches offer the greatest variety of uplinks at
the lowest cost.
Key Features
• Wirespeed Layer 2 - Layer 7 filtering
• Wirespeed Layer 3 IP routing
• Wirespeed Layer 2 switching
• Non-blocking at full line rate for all packet
sizes (Rapier 16fi & Rapier 24i)
• Port trunking with link aggregation
• Stacking with open standards based interfaces
• Stateful Inspection Firewall
• BGP-4 option
• IPv6 option
• Load Balancer option
• Support up to 255 VLANs
• Private VLANs
• Bandwidth limiting
• Broadcast and multicast traffic control
• MVR
• IPsec
• L2TP
• IP RIP v1 and v2
• OSPF v2
• VRRP
• TACACS+
• 802.1x
• SNMPv3
• 2 uplink bays
• DHCP snooping
• DHCP option 82
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RAPIER 'i' SERIES | WAN Capable Layer 3 Fast Ethernet Switches
Choose from 100FX, copper Gigabit, or fiber
Gigabit modules. Alternatively, choose
unpopulated GBIC module and populate it with
one of five GBIC types from Allied Telesis.
The Rapier 'i' series offers an unmatched
combination both switching and routing
capabilities coupled with a flexible set of
specialized features and uplink options.
Fabulous Fiber
With 16 fiber 100FX ports the Rapier 16fi is
uniquely suited to demanding environments
where not only the full-feature richness and
switching performance of the Rapier 'i' switch is
needed, but also where cable security and
electro-magnetic immunity (EMI) are
considerations. As well as performing under
these demanding environments the 16fi offers
the flexibility to provide access to the end
station or to perform as an aggregation device.
Due to the exceptional cable length afforded by
16fi's 100FX ports, networks that require an
aggregation switch that provides routing
between distant sites of up to 2000 meters can
be comfortably met.
IPv6 - The Future
Don't be shut out of the next generation of the
Internet Protocol, IPv6.The Rapier series
enables networks to take advantage of IPv6's
important benefits:
• Addresses are 16Bytes long in contrast to
IPv4's 4Byte addresses.
• Globally unique addresses with more levels of
addressing hierarchy, to reduce the size of
routing tables.
• Auto-configuration of addresses by hosts.
• Improved scalability of multicast routing, by
adding a 'scope' field to multicast addresses.
• A new type of address, the 'anycast address,'
which is used to send a packet to any one of
a group of devices.
Bandwidth Limiting
All Rapier 'i' series switches come with
asymmetric bidirectional bandwidth limiting, per
port or per QoS traffic class, at no additional
cost. With bandwidth limiting, Network Service
Providers can define throughput levels for each
customer and sell their various service levels at
tiered prices.These features are ideal to manage
different applications like VoIP, Web browsing,
Video and email to manage fee-based
customers. The Rapier 'i' bandwidth limiting
feature provides the smallest granulation
available in Layer 3 products. Ser vice Providers
can define ingress limits down to 64Kbps
segments and egress limits down to 1Mbps
segments.The segment definitions can be
asymmetric and each port can be set to
different values. An additional benefit is that loop
back ports are not required.
Stacking
Stacking provides Web and CLI based
management of up to nine switches with the
same effort as for one switch. The Allied Telesis
solution uses open standards interfaces as
stacking links so that many switches can be
stacked across different sites, which is not
possible using the proprietary stacking cable
solutions. Also the use of open standards
interfaces avoids the use of expensive
specialized hardware with limited topologies.
Performance
Rapier 16fi: 9.6Gbps switching fabric, 5.4Mpps
forwarding rate
Rapier 24i: 9.6Gbps switching fabric, 6.6Mpps
forwarding rate
Rapier 48i: 9.6 x 2 = 19.2Gbps switching fabric,
10.1Mpps forwarding rate
14,880pps for 10Mbps Ethernet
148,800pps for 100Mbps Ethernet
1,488,000pps for 1000Mbps Ethernet
Advanced switching ASIC
MAC addresses 8K
Buffer Memory 4MB
VLANs 255
Half/Full Duplex
Auto-negotiation
Auto-MDI/MDIX
Reliability
Rapier 16fi 120,000 MTBF
Rapier 24i 640,000 MTBF
Rapier 48i 197,000 MTBF
Interface Connections
10/100TX Shielded RJ-45
100FX Multi-Mode fiber SC or MT
1000SX Multi-Mode fiber SC
1000LX Single-Mode fiber SC
1000T Shielded RJ-45
Power Characteristics
Voltage: 100-240vAC
Frequency: 50-60Hz
Power consumption max: 95W
Environmental Specifications
Operating Temp: 0°C to 40°C (32°F to 104°F)
Non-Operating Temp: -25°C to 70°C (-13°F
to 158°F)
Relative Humidity: 95% non-condensing
Operating Altitude: 3,050 Metres (10,000ft)
Acoustic Noise
46.0 dB
Physical Characteristics
Rapier 16fi, Rapier 24i and Rapier 48i,
Height: 66mm (2.6") 1.5 RU
Width: 440mm (17.3")
Depth: 356mm (14")
Rapier 16fi
Unit weight: 6.4kg (14.1lbs)
Packaged weight: 8.0kg (17.6lbs)
Mounting: 19" rackmountable, hardware included
Rapier 24i
Unit weight: 6.2kg (13.7lbs.)
Packaged weight: 7.8kg (17.2lbs)
Mounting: 19" rackmountable, hardware included
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