D-Link DES 6500

D-Link DES 6500 ... card hot-swap and redundant power backup capabilities, Quality of Service (QoS)/Class of Service (Cos), complete user access security, traffic monitoring and comprehensive network management. Designed for performance and flexibility, this chassis offers you the edge device router simplicity and the price/performance ratio necessary to deploy a cost-effective enterprise, backbone and campus network.

Using standards-based routing, the DES-6500 provides instant support for Windows, UNIX and Internet environments. Built-in wire-speed non-blocking switch fabric provides hardware-based packet filtering/forwarding. Packet routing is performed by on-board ASICs, which is many times faster than traditional CPU-based routers.

You can configure the switch with up to 96 Gigabit ports, 192 twisted-pair Ethernet ports, or 96 fiber Ethernet ports, or a combination of these. Copper Gigabit and fiber Gigabit (SX, LX and SFP included) are supported. This comprehensive network media support allows you to flexibly configure the chassis for workstations, departmental server and backbone/campus connections.

With 8 line card slots and a wide range of user-selectable port types, the DES-6500 allows you to easily add modules to increase port density as your need grows, without changing your chassis.

The hardware and software features of the DES-6500 work together to allow customers to build affordable, high performance, high availability networks. Line card hot-swap capability makes it easy to add or remove line cards to simplify troubleshooting and replace sparing. The DES-6500 also supports redundant power option to maximize Network uptime. Other features include support for RIPv.1, V.2, OSPF, DVMRP, 802.3ad Link Aggregation, 802.1d Spanning Tree, and 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree for increased network reliability and availability.

The DES-6500 supports a variety of network management options including: console CLI, Telnet configuration, web based and SNMP v.1, v.2c, v.3 management, RMON monitoring, TFTP firmware upgrade, Port Mirroring for troubleshooting, BootP and DHCP IP assignment. The DES-6500 also supports a variety of advanced traffic management options including: 802.1x, Bandwidth Control, Broadcast Rate Limiting, and support for IGMP v.1, v.2 snooping.

The DES-6500 implements a robust and consistent set of QoS/CoS, VLAN, and Security features. It provides a complete set of network access management, plus multi-layer (L2, L3, L4) Quality of Service support, advanced Access Control Lists (ACL) support, and enhanced TACACS+ and RADIUS authentication.

The DES-6500 supports 8 priority queues for 802.1p/TOS/DiffServ, with classification and marking based on MAC SA/DA, IP SA/DA, and/or TCP/UDP port numbers. Security features include: 802.1x (port based authentication), 802.1x (MAC based authentication), Access Control Lists based on MAC address, IP address, and/or TCP/UDP port numbers. The DES-6500 also has extensive support for GARP/GVRP, 802.1q, and 802.1Q VLANs for up to 4K static groups per device.