HP 7500, 7510, 7506-V, 7506, 7503 Datasheet

Data sheet

HP 7500 Switch Series

Product overview

The HP 7500 Switch Series comprises modular, multilayer chassis switches that meet the
evolving needs of integrated services networks. The switches can be deployed in multiple
network environments, including the enterprise LAN core, aggregation layer, and wiring

closet edge. They oer 40GbE connectivity and cost-eective, wire-speed 10GbE ports to
safeguard the throughput and bandwidth needed for your mission-critical data and high-speed

communications.

A passive backplane, support for load sharing, and redundant management and fabrics help

the switch series provide high availability. Moreover, these switches deliver wire-speed L2 and
L3 routing services for the most demanding applications with hardware-based IPv4 and IPv6

support.

A summary of the highlights of the 7500 Switch Series:

• Versatile, high-performance modular switches

• Enterprise LAN core, aggregation, and edge

• Extensive switching and routing, IPv6, and multiprotocol label switching (MPLS)

• Advanced functionality with service modules

• Robust network and service virtualization

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Features and benets

QoS

• IEEE 802.1p prioritization

Delivers data to devices, based on the priority and type of trac

• Class of service (CoS)

Sets the IEEE 802.1p priority tag based on the IP address, IP type of service (ToS), L3 protocol,
TCP/ user datagram protocol (UDP) port number, source port, and DiServ

• Bandwidth shaping

– Port-based rate limiting

Enabled per-port ingress/egress-enforced bandwidth increase

– Classier-based rate limiting

Uses an access control list (ACL) to enforce increased bandwidth for ingress trac on each

port

– Reduced bandwidth

Provides per-port per-queue egress-based bandwidth reduction

• Weighted random early detection (WRED)/random early detection

Delivers congestion avoidance capabilities through the use of queue management algorithms

• Powerful QoS feature

Provides support for these congestion actions: strict priority queuing, weighted round robin,
weighted fair queuing, and WRED

• Trac policing

Supports committed access rate and line rate

Intrusion detection system (IDS)/intrusion prevention system (IPS)

• Deep packet inspection

Examines the packet payload as well as the frame and packet headers; packets are dropped
if attacks or intrusions are detected using signature-based or protocol-anomaly-based

detection

• Signature-based detection

Detects attacks that have known attack patterns; IPS maintains a signature database that
contains the pattern denitions for known attacks that can be updated automatically using a

subscription service

• Protocol anomaly-based detection

Detects attacks that use anomalies in application protocol payloads

• Severity-based action policies

Involve action taken against attacks based on their severity; the actions include “allow,”
“block,” and “terminate connection” to provide appropriate mitigation

• Signature update service

Provides regular updates to the signature database, helping ensure that the latest available
signatures are installed

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Virtual private network (VPN)

• IPSec

Provides secure tunneling over an untrusted network, such as the Internet or a wireless
network; and oers data condentiality, authenticity, and integrity between two network

endpoints

• Generic routing encapsulation (GRE)

Transports L2 connectivity over an L3 path in a secured way; and enables the segregation of
trac from site to site

• Manual or automatic Internet key exchange (IKE)

Enables the manual or automatic key exchange required for the algorithms used in encryption
or authentication; auto-IKE allows automated management of the public key exchange,

helping ensure the highest levels of encryption

Management

• Management interface control

Provides management access through a modem port and terminal interface as well as in-band
and out-of-band Ethernet ports; and oers access through the terminal interface, telnet, or
secure shell (SSH)

• Industry-standard CLI with a hierarchical structure

Reduces training time and expenses; and increases productivity in multivendor installations

• Management security

Restricts access to critical conguration commands; oers multiple privilege levels with
password protection; uses ACLs to provide telnet and SNMP access; and allows logging of all

access with local and remote syslog capabilities

• SNMPv1, v2, and v3

Provide complete support of the SNMP and industry-standard management information base
(MIB) as well as private extensions; SNMPv3 supports increased security using encryption

• sFlow (RFC 3176)

Provides scalable ASIC-based wire-speed network monitoring and accounting with no impact
on network performance; this allows network operators to gather a variety of sophisticated
network statistics and information for capacity planning and real-time network monitoring

purposes

• Remote monitoring (RMON)

Uses standard SNMP to monitor essential network functions; and supports events, alarms,
history, and statistics groups as well as a private alarm extension group

• FTP, trivial FTP (TFTP), and secure FTP (SFTP) support

Oers dierent mechanisms for conguration updates; the FTP allows bidirectional transfers
over a TCP/IP network; the TFTP is a simpler method that uses the UDP; and the SFTP runs

over an SSH tunnel to provide additional security

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• Debug and sampler utility

Supports ping and trace-route for both IPv4 and IPv6

• Network time protocol (NTP)

Synchronizes timekeeping among distributed time servers and clients; and keeps timekeeping
consistent among all clock-dependent devices within the network, so that the devices can

provide diverse applications, based on the consistent time

• Network quality analyzer

Analyzes network performance and service quality by sending test packets; provides network
performance and service quality parameters such as jitter, TCP, or FTP connection delays
and le transfer rates; and allows a network manager to determine the overall network

performance as well as diagnose and locate network congestion points or failures

• Information center

Provides a central repository for system and network information; aggregates all logs, traps,

and debugging information generated by the system and maintains them in the order of

severity; and sends out the network information to multiple channels, based on user-dened

rules

• IEEE 802.1ab link-layer discovery protocol (LLDP)

Advertises and receives management information from adjacent devices on a network,

facilitating easy mapping by network management applications

• Dual ash images

Provides independent primary and secondary operating system les for backup while

upgrading

• Multiple conguration les

Are easily stored with a ash image

Connectivity

• High-density port connectivity

Provides up to 10 interface module slots and up to 40 40GbE ports, 84 10GbE ports, 480 Fiber
Gigabit ports, or 480 PoE-enabled ports per HP 7500 Switch Series system

• Jumbo frames

Allow high-performance remote backup and disaster-recovery systems with up to 9,216 bytes

• Loopback

Supports internal loopback testing for maintenance purposes and an increase in availability;
loopback detection protects against incorrect cabling or network congurations and can be
enabled on a per-port or per-VLAN basis for added exibility

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• Ethernet operations, administration, and maintenance (OAM)

Detects the data link layer problems that occur in the “last mile,” using the IEEE 802.3ah OAM
standard; and monitors the status of the link between two devices

• Flexible port selection

Includes 100/1000BASE-X auto speed selection, 10/100/1000BASE-T auto speed detection, as
well as auto duplex and MDI/MDI-X

• Monitor link

Collects statistics on performance and errors on physical links, increasing system availability

• IEEE 802.3af PoE

Provides up to 15.4 W per port to IEEE 802.3af-compliant PoE-powered devices such as IP

phones, wireless access points, and security cameras

• Dual-personality functionality

Includes four 10/100/1000 ports or SFP slots for optional ber connectivity, such as Gigabit­SX, -LX, and -LH and 100-FX

• Packet storm protection

Protects against unknown broadcast, unknown multicast, or unicast storms with user-dened

thresholds

• Flow control

Provides back pressure, using standard IEEE 802.3x—reducing congestion in heavy trac

situations

• IEEE 802.3at PoE+ support

Provides up to 30 W of power to the power sourcing equipment

Performance

• High-speed fully distributed architecture

Supports a maximum of 1,152 Gb/s switching capacity with a 2.4 Tb/s backplane, providing
enhanced performance and future expansion capability; delivers up to 714 Mp/s throughput
with dual fabrics; performs all switching and routing functions in the I/O modules; and meets
the current and future demand of an enterprise’s bandwidth-intensive applications

• Scalable system design

Provides investment protection to support future technologies and higher-speed connectivity

with a backplane designed to accommodate bandwidth increases

• Flexible chassis selection

Enables you to tailor your product selections to your budget with a choice of six chassis,
ranging from a 10-slot to a 2-slot chassis

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Resiliency and high availability

• Redundant/load-sharing fabrics, management, fan assemblies, and power supplies

Increase total performance and power availability, while providing hitless, stateful failovers

• All hot-swappable modules

Allows replacement of modules without any impact on other modules

• Dual internal power supply

Provides high reliability

• Separate data and control paths

Separates control from services and keeps service processing isolated; and increases security

and performance

• Passive design system

Delivers increased system reliability as the backplane has no active components

• IEEE 802.3ad link-aggregation control protocol (LACP)

Supports up to 128 trunks, each with 8 links per trunk; and provides support for static or
dynamic groups and a user-selectable hashing algorithm

• Intelligent resilient framework (IRF)

Creates virtual resilient switching fabrics, where two or more switches perform as a single

L2 switch and L3 router; switches don’t have to be co-located and can be part of a disaster­recovery system; servers or switches can be attached using the standard LACP for automatic
load balancing and high availability; it can help eliminate the need for complex protocols such
as spanning tree protocol (STP), equal-cost multipath (ECMP), or virtual router redundancy
protocol (VRRP)—simplifying network operations

• IRF capability

Provides single IP address management for a resilient virtual switching fabric of up to four

switches

• Ring resiliency protection protocol (RRPP)

Provides standard sub-100 ms recovery for a ring Ethernet-based topology

• VRRP

Allows groups of two routers to dynamically back each other up to create highly available
routed environments

• Hitless patch upgrades

Allows patches and new service features to be installed without restarting the equipment,

increasing network uptime and facilitating easy maintenance

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• Graceful restart

Supports graceful restart for the open-shortest path rst (OSPF), IS-IS, border gateway
protocol (BGP), LDP, and RSVP; the network remains stable during the active-standby
switchover; after the switchover, the device quickly learns the network routes by
communicating with adjacent routers; and forwarding remains uninterrupted during the

switchover to achieve nonstop forwarding

• Ultrafast protocol convergence with standards-based failure detection—bidirectional

forwarding detection

Enables link connectivity monitoring and reduces network convergence time for the routing
information protocol (RIP), OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, VRRP, MPLS, and IRF

• SmartLink

Allows 50 ms failover between links

• IP/LDP FRR

Congures nodes with backup ports, routes, and LSPs; requires no cooperation of adjacent
devices for local implementation—simplifying deployment; solves the traditional convergence
faults in IP and MPLS forwarding—protecting the links, nodes, and paths without establishing
respective backup LSPs for them; and realizes restoration within 50 ms—with the restoration

time independent of the number of routes and fast link switchovers, without route
convergence

L2 switching

• VLAN

Supports up to 4,096 port-based or IEEE 802.1Q-based VLANs; and supports MAC-based
VLANs, protocol-based VLANs, and IP-subnet-based VLANs for added exibility

• Port isolation

Increases security by isolating ports within a VLAN, while still allowing them to communicate

with other VLANs

• STP bridge protocol data unit (BPDU) tunneling

Transmits STP BPDUs transparently, allowing correct tree calculations across service

providers, WANs, or MANs

• GARP VLAN registration protocol

Allows automatic learning and dynamic assignment of VLANs

• Port mirroring

Duplicates port trac (ingress and egress) to a local or remote monitoring port; and supports

four mirroring groups, with an unlimited number of ports per group

• STP

Supports the standard IEEE 802.1D STP, IEEE 802.1w rapid STP for faster convergence, and
IEEE 802.1s multiple STP

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• Internet-group-management protocol (IGMP) and multicast-listener-discovery (MLD) protocol

snooping

Controls and manages the ooding of multicast packets in an L2 network

• Device link detection protocol

Monitors link connectivity and shuts down ports at both ends if unidirectional trac is
detected, helping prevent loops in STP-based networks

• IEEE 802.1ad Q-in-Q and selective Q-in-Q

Increase the scalability of an Ethernet network by providing a hierarchical structure; and
connect multiple LANs on a high-speed campus or metro network

• Super VLAN

Saves IP address space, using RFC 3069 standard (also called VLAN aggregation)

• Per-VLAN spanning tree plus

Allows each VLAN to build a separate spanning tree to improve link bandwidth usage in
network environments with multiple VLANs

L3 services

• Address resolution protocol (ARP)

Determines the MAC address of another IP host in the same subnet; includes support for static
ARPs; a gratuitous ARP allows detection of duplicate IP addresses; and a proxy ARP allows
normal ARP operation between subnets or when subnets are separated by an L2 network

• UDP helper

Redirects UDP broadcasts to specic IP subnets to help prevent server spoong

• Dynamic host conguration protocol (DHCP)

Simplies the management of large IP networks and supports both clients and servers; DHCP

relay enables DHCP operation across subnets

• Domain name system (DNS)

Provides a distributed database that translates domain names and IP addresses, simplifying
network design; and supports clients and servers

L3 routing

• Static IPv4 routing

Provides simple manually congured IPv4 routing

• RIP

Uses a distance vector algorithm with UDP packets for route determination; supports RIPv1
and RIPv2 routing; and includes loop protection

• OSPF

Delivers faster convergence; uses this link-state routing interior gateway protocol (IGP), which
supports ECMP, NSSA, and MD5 authentication for increased security and graceful restart for

faster failure recovery

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• Intermediate system to intermediate system (IS-IS)

Uses a path vector IGP, which is dened by the ISO organization for IS-IS routing and extended
by IETF RFC 1195 to operate in both TCP/IP and the OSI reference model (integrated IS-IS)

• BGP-4

Delivers an implementation of the exterior gateway protocol, utilizing path vectors; uses TCP
for enhanced reliability for the route discovery process; reduces bandwidth consumption by
advertising only incremental updates; supports extensive policies for increased exibility; and

scales to very large networks

• Policy-based routing

Makes routing decisions based on policies set by the network administrator

• IP performance optimization

Provides a set of tools to improve the performance of IPv4 networks; and includes directed
broadcasts, customization of TCP parameters, support of ICNP error packets, and extensive

display capabilities

• Unicast reverse path forwarding (uRPF)

Limits erroneous or malicious trac in accordance with RFC 3074

• Static IPv6 routing

Provides simple manually congured IPv6 routing

• Dual IP stack

Maintains separate stacks for IPv4 and IPv6 to ease the transition from an IPv4-only network
design to an IPv6-only network design

• RIP next generation (RIPng)

Extends RIPv2 to support IPv6 addressing

• OSPFv3

Provides OSPF support for IPv6

• IS-IS for IPv6

Extends IS-IS to support IPv6 addressing

• BGP+

Extends BGP-4 to support multiprotocol BGP, including support for IPv6 addressing

• IPv6 tunneling

Allows IPv6 packets to traverse IPv4-only networks by encapsulating the IPv6 packet into a
standard IPv4 packet; supports manually congured, 6-to-4, and intra-site-automatic-tunnel­addressing-protocol (ISATAP) tunnels; and is an important element for the transition from IPv4
to IPv6

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