Extreme Networks Summit Summit48si, Summit 48si Datasheet

The extensive capabilities of the Summit48si fit a large span of

application spaces, both within an enterprise and a metro network.

Quality of Service and Application
Flexibility

• Bidirectional rate shaping

• DiffServ and 802.1p

• Virtual MANs (vMANs)

• Policy-Based Quality of Service (QoS) with 8 queues
per port

High Network Availability

• Redundant hot-swappable power supplies and fiber
gigabit uplinks

• Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching (EAPS, RFC 3619)

• Layer 2 and Layer 3 Extreme Standby Routing Protocol™
(ESRP) for dual-homed configuration

Comprehensive Security for Control at
the Edge of the Network

• Wire-speed Layers 2 – 4 ACLs, web-based Network Login,

802.1x, SSH2, TACACS, RADIUS, DoS protection, MAC
address security

• Routing features for maximum forwarding control at the edge

• Automatic Access Control List (ACL) and QoS classification
with EPICenter

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Policy Manager

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Summit®48si

Summit48si from Extreme Networks® sets the
standard for Layer 3 switching at the edge by
maximizing 10/100 port density and architecting
high levels of reliability while maintaining leadership
in Layer 3 software features and performance. The
unsurpassed software features, capacity and
performance of Summit48si enable customers to
provide more Layer 3 services to more users while
using less space and at a lower Total Cost of
Ownership than ever before.

At one rack unit (1RU) in height, Summit48si packs
48 10/100 Ethernet ports and 2 Gigabit Ethernet
ports with nonblocking capacity to support every
port at full line-rate. This compact yet powerful
package is capable of supporting two hot swappable
load sharing power supplies—a reliability first in a
1RU Layer 3 switch. The reliability of Summit48si is
enhanced even further with dual Gigabit Ethernet
uplinks, both of which are active and can be aggregated
for enhanced throughput and increased redundancy.

Extreme Networks’ advanced Layer 3 software
feature set, combined with dual hot-swappable
power supplies makes Summit48si an unbeatable
solution at the edge of the network.

Target Applications

• In enterprise markets—such as banking,
manufacturing, education—where high­performance, reliability and security features
are critical

• Metro Ethernet access rings where granular
bandwidth allocation, billing, and security
are critical

• Metro service providers that need high speed
IP unicast and multicast services supporting
carrier-class routing protocols like OSPF,
BGP, and PIM-SM

The unsurpassed software features, capacity, and performance
of the Summit48si enable customers to provide more Layer 3
services to more users while using less space and at a lower
Total Cost of Ownership than ever before.

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Summit48si Customer Benefits

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Quality of Service and
Application Flexibility

Maximum Performance

With industry-leading performance for
the most demanding applications,
Summit48si has a non-blocking architec­ture with 17.5 gigabits of throughput with
wire-speed performance on every port.

Bidirectional rate shaping allows you to
manage bandwidth on Layer 2 and Layer 3
traffic flowing both to and from the switch.

DiffServ and 802.1p deliver varied levels
of service for time-sensitive, demanding
applications for voice, video and data
and ensure efficient bandwidth usage.

Eight hardware queues provide granu­larity for multiple applications, and
guarantee low latency/low jitter for time
sensitive applications (voice and
multimedia) with support for advanced
scheduling algorithms.

Application Flexibility

Summit48si features a 128K routing
table size for maximum forwarding
control at the edge with the same
advanced feature set supported end-to­end throughout the customer’s network.
Protocol-based VLANs enable the network
administrators to define a packet filter
that the switch uses as the matching
criteria to determine if a particular
packet belongs to a particular VLAN.

Virtual MANs (vMANs) feature is useful
in building transparent private networks
that need point-to-point or point-to­multipoint connectivity across an
Ethernet infrastructure.

Policy-Based QoS with 8 queues per
port, bidirectional rate shaping and
bandwidth management provides the
ability to prioritize mission-critical
applications and traffic to deliver
maximum productivity and deliver
delay-sensitive applications such as
voice and video.

High Network Availability

Redundant hot-swappable power
supplies, and fiber gigabit uplinks
provide true high availability as
Summit48si immediately is able to
failover to the redundant port and the

user’s application is unaffected. The user
stays connected to the network and
remains productive.

Summit48si delivers connectivity and
productivity with advanced high availabil­ity features, such as EAPS (RFC 3619)
with multidomain support to deliver
subsecond (less than 50ms recovery)
protection switching to interconnected
switches in an Ethernet ring topology.
EAPS is similar to Spanning Tree Protocol
(STP), but offers the advantage of
converging in significantly less time than
STP or even Rapid Spanning Tree
(802.1w) when a link breaks in the ring.

ESRP can be implemented at both Layers
2 and 3 and extends the Virtual Redundant
Redundancy Protocol’s (VRRP) capabilities,
adding Layer 2 resiliency and loop prevention
and Layer 3 default router redundancy.

Equal Cost Multipath (ECMP) allows the
networks to be even more resilient as
multiple equal-cost routes can be used
concurrently to an end destination.

With the software redundant port feature,
a specified primary port can be backed up
by another port. Should the link go down
on the primary port, the redundant port
will establish link and become active. Thus
multihomed redundancy can be easily
designed without the complexity of
a protocol.

Comprehensive Security for
Control at the Edge of the
Network

With IEEE 802.1x Login, network managers
can always control who is connected to the
network and prevent unauthorized clients
from gaining access to the network.

Web-based Network Login does not
require any specific client software and
can work with any HTTP-compliant web
browser and thus is independent of
platform. Every user on every port can be
authenticated so the network is protected
at the most sensitive point of attack.

MAC address security allows identifying
port abuse such as rogue wireless access
points or hubs/switches on edge ports. It
includes two features: lockdown on a per
port basis and limiting the number of MAC
addresses learned by a port. Lockdown

and saving learned MAC addresses
between reboots can be used to protect
dedicated ports for VoIP phones or
printers from abuse. Limiting the number
of MAC addresses learned on a port also
allows enforcement of service level
agreements in tenant or service provider
environments.

SSHv2 allows network managers to
securely configure the box remotelywith­out any risk of packet snooping or man-in­the-middle attack. SSHv2, DoS protection,
TACACS+ and RADIUS bring reliable
secure configuration traffic (encryption)
and authentication.

Scanning of malicious users or virusinfect­ed end-clients can cause the Forwarding
Database (FDB) table to fill up very
quickly and FDB replacements to happen
at higher rate. The attacks can hurt the
quality of internal traffic significantly, if all
Layer 3 forwarding is made by host lookup.
The IPDA SUBNET lookup feature forces
the attack traffic to use the IPFDB
SUBNET forwarding table instead of the
host-forwarding table. This feature is
intended to decrease frequency of FDB
collision and replacement and accelerate
packet forwarding for Summit48si.

Multiple Supplicant (client) enables
multiple clients to be individually authenti­cated on the same port.

Summit48si has wire-speed Layers 2 – 4
ACLs on every port for maximum security
while maintaining maximum throughput.

Ease of Management

Extreme Networks has developed tools
that save you time and resources in
managing your network. EPICenter
provides all fault configuration, account­ing, performance, and security functions
to manage Extreme Networks’ multi-layer
switching equipment in a converged
network. EPICenter Policy Manager
provides layer-independent policy
enforcement for Layers 1 – 4.
Extreme Networks’ software application,
ServiceWatch
Layers 4 – 7 monitoring and management
for mission-critical network services.

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