Planet 8×Gigabit + 12×SFP + 4×10G SFP+ L2+/L3 Managed Metro Ethernet Switch | MGSW-24160F

8×GE + 12×SFP + 4×10G L2+ Managed Metro Switch

High-Performance Switch for Enterprise and Telecom Infrastructure Upgrades
PLANET MGSW-24160F is a high-performance network switch perfect for enterprises and telecoms. It features IPv4/IPv6  Layer 3 static routing and robust L2/L4 switching capabilities, along with 8-Port 10/100/1000BASE-T, 12-Port 100/1000X SFP, and 4-Port 10G SFP+ configurations. Enclosed in a rugged case, it ensures stable operation with a non-blocking fabric and wire-speed throughput of up to 120Gbps, maintaining flawless performance from 0 to 60 degrees C. Designed with "Front Access," it allows easy maintenance when installed in cabinets, ideal for networks needing bandwidth upgrades.

High Performance 10Gbps Ethernet Capacity
The four SFP+ ports built in the MGSW-24160F boasts a high-performance switch architecture that is capable of providing non-blocking switch fabric and wire-speed throughput as high as up to 120Gbps, which greatly simplifies the tasks of upgrading the LAN for catering to increasing bandwidth demands. Each of the SFP+ ports supports 4 speeds, 10GBASE-SR/LR, 2500BASE-X, 1000BASE-SX/LX and 100BASE-FX, meaning the administrator now can flexibly choose the suitable SFP/SFP+ transceiver according to the transmission distance or the transmission speed required to extend the network efficiently.

Redundant Ring, Fast Recovery for Critical Network Applications
The MGSW-24160F 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. 

Cybersecurity Network Solution to Minimize Security Risks
The MGSW-24160F supports SSHv2 and TLSv1.2 protocols to provide strong protection against advanced threats. It includes a range of cybersecurity features such as DHCP Snooping, IP Source Guard, Dynamic ARP Inspection Protection, RADIUS and TACACS+ user accounts management, SNMPv3 authentication, and so on to complement it as an all-security solution.

Digital Input and Digital Output for External Alarm
The MGSW-24160F supports Digital Input and Digital Output through a terminal block located on its front panel. This external alarm enables users to use Digital Input to detect and log external device status (such as door intrusion detector), and send event alarm to the administrators. The Digital Output could be used to alarm the administrators if the MGSW-24160F port shows link down, link up or power failure.

Effective Alarm Alert for Better Protection
The MGSW-24160F incorporates a Fault Alarm feature that promptly notifies users of any issues with the switches. This valuable feature eliminates the need for users to spend time locating the problem, resulting in significant time and human resource savings.

Layer 3 IPv4 and IPv6 VLAN Routing for Secure and Flexible Management
The MGSW-24160F switch not only provides ultra high transmission performance, and excellent Layer 2 and Layer 4 technologies, but also Layer 3 IPv4/IPv6 VLAN routing feature which allows to cross over different VLANs and different IP addresses for the purpose of having a highly-secure, flexibly-managed and simple networking application.

Robust Layer 2 Features
The MGSW-24160F can be programmed for advanced switch management functions such as dynamic port link aggregation, 802.1Q VLAN and Q-in-Q VLAN, Multiple Spanning Tree protocol (MSTP), loop and BPDU guard, IGMP snooping, and MLD snooping. Via the link aggregation, the MGSW-24160F allows the operation of a high-speed trunk to combine with multiple ports, and supports fail-over as well.  Also, the Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) is the Layer 2 protocol included to help discover basic information about neighboring devices on the local broadcast domain.

Efficient Traffic Control
The MGSW-24160F is loaded with robust QoS features and powerful traffic management to enhance services to business-class data, voice, and video solutions. The functionality includes broadcast/multicast/unicast storm control, per port bandwidth control, 802.1p/CoS/IP DSCP QoS priority and remarking. It guarantees the best performance in VoIP and video stream transmission, and empowers the enterprises to take full advantage of the limited network resources.

User-friendly Management Interfaces
For efficient management, the MGSW-24160F is equipped with console, Web and SNMP management interfaces.

With the built-in Web-based management interface, the MGSW-24160F offers an easy-to-use, platform-independent management and configuration facility.
For text-based management, the switches can be accessed via Telnet and the console port.
For standard-based monitor and management software, it offers SNMPv3 connection which encrypts the packet content at each session for secure remote management.
Moreover, the MGSW-24160F offers secure remote management by supporting SSHv2, TLSv1.2 and SNMP v3 connections which encrypt the packet content at each session.

IPv6/IPv4 Dual Stack Management
Supporting both IPv6 and IPv4 protocols, the MGSW-24160F helps the SMBs to step in the IPv6 era with the lowest investment as its network facilities need not be replaced or overhauled if the IPv6 FTTx edge network is set up.

Intelligent SFP Diagnosis Mechanism
The MGSW-24160F 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.

Redundant AC/DC Power Supply to Ensure Continuous Operation
The MGSW-24160F is particularly equipped with one 100~240V AC power supply unit and dual 36~60V DC power supply unit to provide an enhanced reliable and scalable redundant power supply. The continuous power system is specifically designed to fulfill the demands of high-tech facilities requiring the highest power integrity. With the 36~60V DC power supply, the MGSW-24160F is able to act as a telecom-level device that can be located in the electronic room.

Remote Management Solution
PLANET's Universal Network Management System (UNI-NMS), NMSViewerPro and CloudViewerPro app provide robust support for IT staff in effectively managing and monitoring all network devices, including the MGSW-24160F, from remote locations. Tailored for deployment in both enterprises and industries where the MGSW-24160F is utilized remotely, these systems enable the identification of bugs or faulty conditions without the need for on-site visits. With PLANET’s Remote Management Solution, businesses of all types can now be swiftly and efficiently managed through a unified platform, streamlining operational oversight.

Applications

Optimized Design for Metropolitan Area Network
By means of improving the technology of Optical Fiber Ethernet with highly-flexible, highly-extendable and easy-to-install features, the MGSW-24160F offers up to 10Gbps data exchange speed via Optical Fiber interface and the transmission distance extends to 80km. The MGSW-24160F is the ideal solution for service providers such as ISP and telecom to build Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) based on the fiber technology to the WAN Internet Service.

Excellent Solution to Core/Department Switch
The MGSW-24160F is an excellent choice of core layer switch for a Gigabit network. With 24 multi-gigabit ports, the MGSW-24160F is able to connect up to 24 edge switches in the Ethernet environment. Moreover, it also provides 120 Gigabit per second switch fabric and high bandwidth for backbone connection.

Key Features

Physical Port
8 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 ports
12 100/1000BASE-X mini-GBIC/SFP slots
4 10GBASE-SR/LR SFP+ slots, backward compatible with 100/1G/2.5GBASE-X SFP  transceivers
RJ45 to RS232 DB9 console interface for basic management and setup.
 
Hardware Conformance
One 100 to 240V AC or dual 36 to 60V DC power input, redundant power with reverse polarity protection
Active-active redundant power failure protection
Backup of catastrophic power failure on one supply
Fault tolerance and resilience
19-inch rack-mountable design
IP30 metal case
Relay alarm for port breakdown, power failure
Two built-in thermal fans
Supports EFT protection for 6KV DC power and 6KV DC Ethernet ESD protection
0 to 60 degrees C operating temperature for AC/DC power input
 
Digital Input and Digital Output
2 digital input (DI)
2 digital output (DO)
Integrate sensors into auto alarm system
Transfer alarm to IP network via SNMP trap
 
Switching
Hardware-based 10/100Mbps (half/full duplex), 1000Mbps (full duplex mode), auto-negotiation, and auto MDI/MDI-X 
Features Store-and-Forward mode with wire-speed filtering and forwarding rates
IEEE 802.3x flow control for full duplex operation and back pressure for half duplex operation
16K MAC address table size
12K jumbo frame 
Automatic address learning and address aging
Supports CSMA/CD protocol
 
Layer 2 Features
Prevents packet loss with back pressure (half-duplex) and IEEE 802.3x pause frame flow control (full-duplex) 
High performance Store and Forward architecture, broadcast storm control, and runt/CRC filtering that eliminates erroneous packets so as to optimize the network bandwidth 
Supports VLAN
IEEE 802.1Q tagged VLAN
Provider Bridging (VLAN Q-in-Q, IEEE 802.1ad) support
Protocol VLAN
Voice VLAN
Private VLAN (Protected port)
Management VLAN
GVRP
Supports Spanning Tree Protocol
STP (Spanning Tree Protocol)
RSTP (Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol)
MSTP (Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol)
STP BPDU Guard, BPDU Filtering and BPDU Forwarding
Supports Link Aggregation
IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
Cisco ether-channel (Static Trunk)
Maximum 8 trunk groups, up to 8 ports per trunk group 
Provides port mirror (many-to-1)
Loop protection to avoid broadcast loops
Supports ERPS (Ethernet Ring Protection Switching)
Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
 
Layer 3 IP Routing Features
Supports maximum 32 static routes and route summarization 
Routing interface provides per VLAN routing mode
 
Quality of Service
Ingress/Egress Rate Limit per port bandwidth control
Traffic classification
IEEE 802.1p CoS
TOS/DSCP/IP Precedence of IPv4/IPv6 packets
Strict priority and Weighted Round Robin (WRR) CoS policies
 
Multicast
Supports IPv4 IGMP snooping v2 and v3
Supports IPv6 MLD snooping v1, v2
IGMP querier mode support
IGMP snooping port filtering
MLD snooping port filtering
 
Security
Storm Control support
Broadcast / Multicast / Unknown Unicast
Authentication
Built-in RADIUS client to co-operate with the RADIUS servers
DHCP Option 82
RADIUS/TACACS+ login user access authentication
Access Control List
IPv4/IPv6 IP-based ACL
IPv4/IPv6 IP-based ACE
MAC-based ACL
MAC-based ACE
MAC Security
Static MAC
MAC Filtering
Port Security for Source MAC address entries filtering
DHCP Snooping to filter distrusted DHCP messages
Dynamic ARP Inspection discards ARP packets with invalid MAC address to IP address binding
IP Source Guard prevents IP spoofing attacks
DoS Attack Prevention
 
Management
IPv4 and IPv6 dual stack management
Switch Management Interface
Web switch management 
Console/Telnet Command Line Interface
SNMP v1 and v2c switch management
SSHv2, TLSv1.2 and SNMP v3 secure access
SNMP Management
SNMP trap for interface Link Up and Link Down notification
Four RMON groups (history, statistics, alarms, and events) 
User Privilege Levels Control
Built-in Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) client
BOOTP and DHCP for IP address assignment
System Maintenance
Firmware upload/download via HTTP/TFTP
Configuration upload/download through HTTP/TFTP
Dual Images
Hardware reset button for system reboot or reset to factory default
SNTP Network Time Protocol
Network Diagnostic
Cable Diagnostics 
ICMPv6/ICMPv4 Remote Ping
SFP-DDM (Digital Diagnostic Monitor)
Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) Protocol and LLDP-MED
Event message logging to remote Syslog server
PLANET Smart Discovery Utility for deployment management
PLANET NMS system and NMSViewerPro/CloudViewerPro App for deployment management