High performance and wide range of models
H3C S3100V3-EI series switches support full-speed media forwarding on all ports and are equipped with at least four GE backbone interfaces and two FE/GE fiber SFP ports, providing customers with a wide range of choice.
Software Defined Networking (SDN)
Software Defined Network (SDN) is an innovative network architecture that simplifies network management and eliminates maintenance complexity by separating the network management layer from the network data forwarding layer via Openflow. But more importantly, they provide flexible flow control mechanisms and provide a platform for core networking applications and innovative solutions.
The S3100V3-EI series switches support volumetric table of data flows on the network. Combined with H3C’s SDN Controller, they allow you to easily implement a two-tier network architecture and quickly add new features to existing networks to radically simplify network management while significantly reducing maintenance costs.
Intelligent technology IRF2 fault-tolerant architecture
The S3100V3-EI series switches from H3C implement Intelligent Resilient Framework 2 (IRF2) technology. IRF2 provides the following benefits:
Excellent scalability: With IRF2, device aggregation can be plug-and-play by simply adding one or more switches to the stack IRF2 and enabling IRF2 stacking mode on the new device. New devices can be managed through a single shared IP address, allowing software updates to be carried out simultaneously on all devices to reduce network expansion costs.
High reliability: patented IRF2’s 1:N redundancy technology allows each of the slaves in the IRF2 stack to serve as a backup for the master, providing control plane redundancy and data link redundancy, as well as uninterrupted Layer 3 forwarding. This improves reliability and helps avoid interruptions at work and generally improve productivity. If the primary device fails, traffic does not stop.
Load balancing: IRF2 supports aggregation of connections across multiple devices. Connections to upstream and downstream systems can be made through multiple physical links, creating another layer of redundancy and increasing network resource utilization.
Availability: IRF2 technology implemented H3C via standard Gigabit Ethernet (1GE) ports and provides bandwidth allocation for service traffic and application access, with intelligent separation of local traffic and traffic to upstream systems. IRF2 rules can be applied not only at the scale of one rack or adjacent racks, but also at the scale of the entire local network.
Intelligent Management Center (SmartMC)
SmartMC is H3C’s latest, innovative solution that helps small and medium-sized businesses manage their network management challenges with a free, easy-to-use, web-based tool. SmartMC is an on-switch management tool found in management switches and other access network switches. SmartMC has the following advantages:
Intelligent Operation: After powering up the switch and activating the SmartMC function, the topology is automatically built, which is displayed to the user in a rich graphical web interface for check the current status.
Centralized management: All management operations can be performed through the management switch, including centralized configuration backup and software versioning for increased efficiency.< /p>
One-click device replacement: If one of the switches fails, a new replacement switch of the same type can be automatically loaded with the same configuration so that it can immediately began to work similarly to the previous one.
Comprehensive security features
In series switches H3C’s S3100V3-EI implements an innovative single-port multiple authentication feature, meaning the authentication modes for access may differ for different clients. For example, some clients are only capable of MAC address authentication (such as printers), some user nodes use 802.1X authentication, and some user nodes can only authenticate access using a web portal. To flexibly adapt to different network authentication requirements, the S3100V3-EI series switches support multiple authentication on a single port for a unified deployment.
The series switches The S3100V3-EI supports SSH V2 (Secure Shell V2) technology to ensure information security, as well as strong authentication tools to protect the Ethernet switch from attacks such as IP address spoofing or interception of unencrypted information.
The main threats to network security are ARP attacks and ARP virus hijacking, so the S3100V3-EI series switches provide a variety of ARP security mechanisms such as ARP detection to verify eligibility client, authenticate ARP packets, and configure ARP rate limiting to prevent ARP flood attacks targeting device processors.
On S3100V3 Series switches -EI from H3C supports the EAD (End User Admission Domination) user security check function. Together with the iMC (intelligent Management Center), EAD allows you to combine endpoint security policies, such as antivirus and latest updates, with network access control mechanisms and network access rights policies into a single, consistent security system. By validating, isolating, updating, managing, and monitoring endpoint access, EAD enables you to move your network from passive, targeted security to active, end-to-end security, and from isolated to centralized management, enhancing your network’s ability to counter viruses, worms, and other threats. new threats.
Advanced management and support capabilities
The S3100V3-EI series switches from H3C implement all the tools to simplified management with SNMPv1/v2/v3 support, allowing management using platforms such as Open View and iMC. Using SSH 2.0 encryption when working with the command line interface or Telnet provides additional security for the switch management channel.
S3100V3-EI series switches support RSPAN mirroring technology, allowing duplicate traffic through access ports to core switches for the purpose of management and maintenance, as well as monitoring the traffic of network services and applications.
The S3100V3-EI switches implement the function virtual cable tester VCT (Virtual Cable Test), which allows you to quickly detect fault locations. Besides, The switches support DLDP (Device Link Detection Protocol) technology to detect unidirectional connections with automatic shutdown of the faulty port to avoid network problems.
Advanced capabilities for services
H3C S3100V3-EI series switches support power over twisted pair (PoE) technology according to 802.3af/802.3at, providing connected devices with up to 30 W of power per port to power IP phones, high-power wireless access points and cameras.
H3C’s S3100V3-EI series switches feature flexible port-based and queue-based queuing algorithms, including strict queuing priorities (Strict Priority, SP), weighted round robin (WRR) and SP+WRR.
H3C S3100V3-EI series switches support a wide range of management functions for the IPv6 protocol, including IPv6 unicast configuration, ICMPv6, IPv6 ND, IPv6-TCP, IPv6-TFTP, IPv6-Tracert. In addition, the devices support IPv6 features such as IPv6 access control lists, quality of service (QoS), multicast, and many others.