Planet Layer 3 24-Port 10/100/1000T + 4-Port 10G SFP+ Stackable Managed Switch | SGS-6341-24T4X

Powerful 10Gbps and Layer 3 Routing Solution for Enterprise Backbone and Data Center Networking

PLANET SGS-6341-24T4X 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 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 SGS-6341-24T4X 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 SGS-6341 series supports dual-speed, 10GBASE-SR/LR or 1000BASE-SX/LX. With 10Gbps uplink interfaces, the SGS-6341 series 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.

Central IP Stacking Management
Positioned as the distribution or aggregation layer switch for large networks, the SGS-6341 series 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 SGS-6341 switch 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 SGS-6341 series for building a virtually logical facility. The SGS-6341 series gives the enterprises, service providers and telecoms flexible control over port density, uplinks and switch stack performance. The SGS-6341 series 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.

Redundant Ring, Fast Recovery for Critical Network Applications
The SGS-6341 Series 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.

Layer 3 Routing Support
The SGS-6341 series 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.

Strong Multicast
The SGS-6341 series supports abundant multicast features. In Layer 2, it features IPv4 IGMPv1/v2/v3 snooping and IPv6 MLD v1/v2 snooping. In Layer 3 multicast protocols, it features IGMPv1/v2/v3 and DVMRP. With Multicast VLAN Register (MVR), multicast receiver/sender control and illegal multicast source detect functions which make the SGS-6341 series great for any robust networking.

Full IPv6 Support 
The SGS-6341 series 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.

Robust Layer 2 Features
The SGS-6341 series can be programmed for basic switch management functions such as port speed configuration, port aggregation, VLAN, Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol, WRR and bandwidth control. This switch provides 802.1Q tagged VLAN, Q-in-Q, voice VLAN and GVRP Protocol functions. By supporting port aggregation, the SGS-6341 series allows the operation of a high-speed trunk combined with multiple ports. 

Excellent Layer 2 to Layer 4 Traffic Control
The SGS-6341 series 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 SGS-6341 series 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 SGS-6341 series 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 SGS-6341 Managed Gigabit Switch series is equipped with console, Web and SNMP management interfaces. With its built-in Web-based management interface, the SGS-6341 series offers an easy-to-use, platform-independent management and configuration facility. The SGS-6341 series supports standard Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and can be managed via any standard-based management software. 

For reducing product learning time, the SGS-6341 series offers Cisco-like command via Telnet or console port and customer doesn’t need to learn new command from these switches. Moreover, the SGS-6341 series offers secure remote management by supporting SSH connection which encrypts the packet content at each session.

Intelligent SFP Diagnosis Mechanism
The SGS-6341-24T4X 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
With highly-flexible, highly-extendable and easy-to-install features, the SGS-6341-24T4X series offers up to 128Gbps data exchange speed via optical fiber interface and the transmission distance can be extended to 120km. The SGS-6341-24T4X series 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 SGS-6341-24T4X 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 SGS-6341-24T4X series performs 128 Gigabits per second 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 SGS-6341-24T4X series 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 SGS-6341-24T4X ensures reliable routing between VLANs and network segments. The routing protocols can be applied via VLAN interface. The SGS-6341-24T4X is certainly a cost-effective and ideal solution for enterprises.

Key Features

Physical Ports
24 10/100/1000BASE-T RJ45 copper ports
4 10GBASE-SR/LR SFP+ slots, 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 SGS-6341 series stacked into one logical facility
- Connects with stack members 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 & root guard
Port mirroring to monitor the incoming or outgoing traffic on a particular port (many to many)
Provides port mirror (many-to-1)
Supports G.8032 ERPS (Ethernet Ring Protection Switching)

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