Planet Layer 3 24-Port 100/1000X SFP + 8-Port Shared TP + 4-Port 10G SFP+ Stackable Managed Switch (100~240V AC, 36-75V DC) | XGS3-24242

Powerful Layer 3 Routing Solution for All Long-Reach Networks
PLANET XGS3-24242 is a Layer 3 Stackable Managed Gigabit Switch that provides high-density performance, Layer 3 static routing, RIP (Routing Information Protocol) and OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) with 10Gbps uplink and multiple SFP fiber interfaces delivered in a rugged, strong case. The administrator can flexibly choose the suitable SFP/SFP+ transceiver according to the transmission distance or the transmission speed required to extend the 10G network efficiently. Besides, with 128Gbps switching fabric, the XGS3-24242 can handle extremely large amounts of data in a secure topology linking to backbone or high capacity servers for ISP and enterprise VoIP, video streaming, and multicast applications.

High Performance 10Gbps Ethernet Capacity
The four SFP+ slots built in the XGS3-24242 supports Dual-speed, 10GBASE-SR/LR or 1000BASE-SX/LX. With 10Gbps uplink interfaces, the XGS3-24242 boasts a high-performance switch architecture that is capable of providing non-blocking switch fabric and wire-speed throughput as high as 128Gbps, which greatly simplifies the tasks of upgrading the LAN for catering to increasing bandwidth demands.

AC and DC Redundant Power to Ensure Continuous Operation
The XGS3-24242 is equipped with one 100~240V AC power supply unit and one additional 36-75V DC power supply unit for redundant power supply. A redundant power system is also provided to enhance the reliability with either AC or DC power supply unit. The redundant power system is specifically designed to handle the demands of high-tech facilities requiring the highest power integrity. 

IP Stacking Management
The XGS3-24242 supports IP stacking function that helps network managers to easily configure up to 24 switches in the same series via one single IP address instead of connecting and setting each unit one by one. The IP stacking technology groups PLANET XGS3-24242 and SGS-6341 series together to enable centralized management through a single unit, regardless of physical location or switch type, as long as they are connected to the same local network.

High Reliability Hardware Stacking
Two of the 10G SFP+ ports are used to connect several XGS3-24242 units to build a virtually logical facility. The XGS3-24242 gives the enterprises, service providers and telecoms flexible control over port density, uplinks and switch stack performance. The XGS3-24242 can connect as a ring for redundancy and ensures that data integrity is retained even if one switch in the stack fails. You can even hot-swap switches without disrupting the network, which greatly simplifies the tasks of upgrading the LAN for catering to increasing bandwidth demands.

Layer 3 Routing Support
The XGS3-24242 enables the administrator to conveniently boost network efficiency by configuring Layer 3 static routing manually, and the RIP or OSPF settings automatically. The RIP can employ the hop count as a routing metric and prevent routing loops by implementing a limit on the number of hops allowed in a path from the source to a destination. The OSPF is an interior dynamic routing protocol for autonomous system based on link state. The protocol creates a database for link state by exchanging link states among Layer 3 switches, and then uses the Shortest Path First algorithm to generate a route table based on that database.

Full IPv6 Support 
The XGS3-24242 provides IPv6 management and enterprise-level secure features such as SSH, ACL, WRR and RADIUS authentication. It thus helps the enterprises to step in the IPv6 era with the lowest investment. In addition, you don’t need to replace the network facilities when the IPv6 FTTx edge network is built.

Redundant Ring, Fast Recovery for Critical Network Applications 
The XGS3-24242 supports redundant ring technology and features strong, rapid self-recovery capability to prevent interruptions and external intrusions. It incorporates advanced ITU-T G.8032 ERPS (Ethernet Ring Protection Switching) technology and Spanning Tree Protocol (802.1s MSTP) into customer’s network to enhance system reliability and uptime in harsh environments. In a certain simple Ring network, the recovery time could be less than 50ms to quickly bring the network back to normal operation.

Robust Layer 2 Features
The XGS3-24242 can be programmed for basic switch management functions such as port speed configuration, port aggregation, VLAN, Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol, WRR, bandwidth control and IGMP snooping. This switch provides 802.1Q tagged VLAN, Q-in-Q, voice VLAN and GVRP Protocol functions. By supporting port aggregation, the XGS3-24242 allows the operation of a high-speed trunk combined with multiple ports.  It enables up to 128 groups for trunking with a maximum of 8 ports for each group. 

Excellent Layer 2 to Layer 4 Traffic Control
The XGS3-24242 is loaded with powerful traffic management and WRR features to enhance services offered by telecoms. The WRR functionalities include wire-speed Layer 4 traffic classifiers and bandwidth limitation which are particularly useful for multi-tenant unit, multi-business unit, Telco, or network service applications. It also empowers the enterprises to take full advantage of the limited network resources and guarantees the best in VoIP and video conferencing transmission. 

Powerful Security
The XGS3-24242 supports ACL policies comprehensively. The traffic can be classified by source/destination IP addresses, source/destination MAC addresses, IP protocols, TCP/UDP, IP precedence, time ranges and ToS. Moreover, various policies can be conducted to forward the traffic. The XGS3-24242 also provides IEEE 802.1x port based access authentication, which can be deployed with RADIUS, to ensure the port level security and block illegal users.

Efficient and Secure Management
For efficient management, the XGS3-24242 is equipped with console, Web and SNMP management interfaces. With its built-in Web-based management interface, the XGS3-24242 offers an easy-to-use, platform-independent management and configuration facility. The XGS3-24242 supports standard Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and can be managed via any standard-based management software. 

For reducing product learning time, the XGS3-24242 offers Cisco-like command via Telnet or console port and customer doesn’t need to learn new command from these switches. Moreover, the XGS3-24242 offers secure remote management by supporting SSH connection which encrypts the packet content at each session.

Intelligent SFP Diagnosis Mechanism
The XGS3-24242 supports SFP-DDM (Digital Diagnostic Monitor) function that greatly helps network administrator to easily monitor real-time parameters of the SFP and SFP+ transceivers, such as optical output power, optical input power, temperature, laser bias current, and transceiver supply voltage.

Applications

High Availability Mesh Networking Solution for Big Data System
By means of improving the technology of optical fiber Ethernet with highly-flexible, highly-extendable and easy-to-install features, the XGS3-24242 offers up to 128Gbps data exchange speed via optical fiber interface and the transmission distance can be extended to 120km. The XGS3-24242 features strong, rapid, self-recovery capability to prevent interruptions and external intrusions. It incorporates IEEE 802.1s MSTP (Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol, spanning tree by VLAN) into customer’s automation network to enhance system reliability and uptime. The XGS3-24242 is the ideal solution for data centers, service providers and telecoms to build redundant connection and establish high bandwidth for Big Data server farm.

Excellent Solution to Core/Data Center Security and QoS Switch
The XGS3-24242 performs 128Gbps non-blocking switch fabric, so it can easily provide a local 10Gbps high bandwidth Ethernet network for the backbone of your department. With the four built-in SFP+ ports, the XGS3-24242 provides the uplink to the backbone network through the 10G Ethernet LR/SR SFP+ modules. It further improves the network efficiency and protects the network clients by offering the security and QoS features.

Layer 3 VLAN Routing
With the built-in robust Layer 3 traffic routing protocols, the XGS3-24242 ensures reliable routing between VLANs and network segments. The routing protocols can be applied via VLAN interface. The XGS3-24242 is certainly a cost-effective and ideal solution for enterprises.

Key Features

Physical Ports
24 100/1000BASE-X mini-GBIC/SFP ports
Eight 10/100/1000BASE-T RJ45 copper ports, shared with Port-1 to Port-8
4 10GBASE-SR/LR SFP+ ports, compatible with 1000BASE-SX/LX/BX SFP
RJ45 to DB9 console interface for switch basic management and setup
1 USB2.0 interface for configuration and firmware storage
 
Stacking Features
IP Stacking
Connects with stack member via Gigabit TP, SFP and 10G SFP+ interfaces
Single IP address management, supporting up to 24 IP units stacked together
 
Hardware Stacking
Virtualized multiple XGS3-24242 into one logical device
Connects with stack member via assigned 10G SFP+ interfaces
Single IP address stack management, supporting up to 4 hardware units stacked together
Stacking architecture supports redundant ring mode
 
IP Routing Features
IP routing protocol supports RIPv1/v2, RIPng, OSPFv2/v3, BGP4/4+
Routing interface provides per VLAN routing mode 
VRRPv1/v3 protocol for redundant routing deployment 
Supports route redistribution 
Supports hardware-based wire-speed VLAN routing
 
Multicast Routing Features
Supports PIM-DM (Protocol Independent Multicast – Dense Mode) and PIM-SM (Protocol Independent Multicast – Sparse Mode) and PIM-SSM (Protocol Independent Multicast – Source Specific Multicast)
Supports DVMRP (Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol)
Supports IGMP v1/v2/v3 and MLD v1/v2
 
Layer 2 Features
Complies with the IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u, IEEE 802.3ab, IEEE 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet standard
Supports auto-negotiation and half-duplex/full-duplex modes for all 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX and 1000BASE-T ports
Auto-MDI/MDI-X detection on each RJ45 port
Prevents packet loss flow control
IEEE 802.3x pause frame flow control in full-duplex mode
Back pressure flow control in half-duplex mode
High performance Store-and-Forward architecture, broadcast storm control, port loopback detection
16K MAC address table, automatic source address learning and aging
Supports VLAN
IEEE 802.1Q tag-based VLAN
GVRP for dynamic VLAN management
Up to 256 VLANs groups, out of 4041 VLAN IDs
Provider Bridging (VLAN Q-in-Q, IEEE 802.1ad) supported
Private VLAN Edge (PVE) supported
GVRP protocol for Management VLAN
Protocol-based VLAN
MAC-based VLAN
IP subnet VLAN
Supports Link Aggregation
Maximum 128 trunk groups, up to 8 ports per trunk group
IEEE 802.3ad LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol)
Cisco ether-channel (static trunk)
Supports Spanning Tree Protocol
STP, IEEE 802.1D (Classic Spanning Tree Protocol)
RSTP, IEEE 802.1w (Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol)
MSTP, IEEE 802.1s (Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol, spanning tree by VLAN)
Supports BPDU and root guard
Port mirroring to monitor the incoming or outgoing traffic on a particular port (many to many)
Provides port mirror (many-to-1)

Quality of Service
8 priority queues on all switch ports
Support for strict priority and WRR (Weighted Round Robin) CoS policies
Traffic classification
IEEE 802.1p CoS/ToS
IPv4/IPv6 DSCP
Port-based WRR
Strict priority and WRR CoS policies
 
Multicast
Supports IPv4 IGMP snooping v1, v2 and v3; IPv6 MLD v1 and v2 snooping
Querier mode support
Supports Multicast VLAN Register (MVR)
 
Security
IEEE 802.1x port-based network access authentication
MAC-based network access authentication 
Built-in RADIUS client to cooperate with the RADIUS servers for IPv4 and IPv6
TACACS+ login users access authentication
IP-based Access Control List (ACL)
MAC-based Access Control List
Supports DHCP snooping
Supports ARP inspection
IP Source Guard prevents IP spoofing attacks
Dynamic ARP Inspection discards ARP packets with invalid MAC address to IP address binding
 
Management
Management IP for IPv4 and IPv6
Switch Management Interface
Console/Telnet Command Line Interface 
Web switch management
SNMP v1, v2c, and v3 switch management
SSH/SSL secure access
BOOTP and DHCP for IP address assignment
Firmware upload/download via TFTP or HTTP Protocol for IPv4 and IPv6
SNTP (Simple Network Time Protocol) for IPv4 and IPv6
User privilege levels control
Syslog server for IPv4 and IPv6
Supports DDM
Four RMON groups 1, 2, 3, 9 (history, statistics, alarms and events)
Supports sFlow
Supports ULDP
Supports ULPP (Uplink Protection Protocol)
Supports ULSM (Uplink State Monitor protocol)
Supports LLDP/LLDP MED
Supports DHCP Option82, Option37/38
Supports ping, trace route function for IPv4 and IPv6