Ethernet Aggregation Switch MES3324F

Mass production

Key features

Bandwidth up to 128 Gbps
L3 functions
Non-blocking switching fabric
4 x 10G ports in basic configuration
Stacking up to 8 devices
Hot-swappable redundant power supplies
Duplicate cooling system
Front-to-Back cooling

MES3324F series switches can be used in service provider networks as aggregation or transport switches. They have a great margin of performance due to universal interfaces operating at speeds of 10Gbps or 1Gbps.

The features’ set of MES3324F includes advanced L2 functions, static routing, dynamic routing, 4 SFP+ 10 Gbps interfaces, stack up to 8 devices, redundant and hot swappable power supplies.

Ethernet Ring Protection Switching (ERPS) protocol provides fast convergence (less than 200 ms) of the network, that guarantees uninterrupted service.

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Interfaces

20 х 1000BASE-X/100BASE-FX (SFP)
4 х 10/100/1000BASE-T/ 1000BASE-X/100BASE-FX Combo
4 х 10GBASE-R (SFP+)/1000BASE-X (SFP)
1 х 10/100/1000BASE-T (OOB)
Console port RS-232/RJ-45

Performance

Bandwidth - 128 Gbps
Throughput for 64 bytes¹ - 95 MPPS
Buffer memory - 1.5 MB
RAM (DDR3) - 512 MB
ROM (RAW NAND) - 512 MB
MAC table - 16384
ARP table² - 4023
VLAN table - 4094
L2 Multicast groups - 4091
SQinQ rules - 3006 (ingress/egress)
ACL rules - 3006
L3 IPv4 Unicast¹ - 12864
L3 IPv6 Unicast¹ - 3222
L3 IPv4 Multicast (IGMP Proxy, PIM)¹ - 3876
L3 IPv6 Multicast (IGMP Proxy, PIM)¹ - 1006
VRRP switches - 255
Maximum size of ECMP groups - 8
VRF - 16 (including default VRF)
L3 interfaces - 2048
Link Aggregation Groups (LAG) - 48, up to 8 ports per LAG
Quality of Service (QoS) - 8 egress queues per port
Jumbo frames - 10240 bytes
Stacking - 8 devices

Interfaces functions

Head-of-line blocking (HOL) protection
Back Pressure
Auto MDI/MDIX
Jumbo Frames
Flow control (IEEE 802.3X)
Port Mirroring (SPAN, RSPAN)
Stacking

MAC table functions

Independent learning mode per VLAN
MAC Multicast Support
Configurable aging time of MAC addresses
Static MAC Entries
MAC Flapping logging

VLAN functions

Voice VLAN
802.1Q
Q-in-Q
Selective Q-in-Q
GVRP

L2 Multicast functions

Multicast profiles
Static Multicast groups
IGMP Snooping v1,2,3
Port/host based IGMP Snooping Fast Leave
Pim-Snooping
IGMP proxy-report
IGMP authorization via RADIUS
MLD Snooping v1,2
IGMP Querier
MVR

L2 functions

STP (Spanning Tree Protocol, IEEE 802.1d)
RSTP (Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol, IEEE 802.1w)
MSTP (Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol, IEEE 802.1s)
STP Multiprocess
PVSTP+
RPVSTP+
Spanning Tree Fast Link option
STP Root Guard
STP Loop Guard
BPDU Filtering
STP BPDU Guard
VLAN-based Loopback Detection (LBD)
ERPS (G.8032v2)
Flex-link
Private VLAN, Private VLAN Trunk
Layer 2 Protocol Tunneling (L2PT)

L3 functions

Static IP routes
Dynamic routing protocols RIPv2, OSPFv2, OSPFv3, IS-IS (IPv4 Unicast), BGP² (IPv4 Unicast, IPv4 Multicast)
BFD (for BGP)
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Proxy ARP
Policy-Based Routing (IPv4)
VRRP
PIM SM, PIM DM, IGMP Proxy, MSDP
IP Unnumbered
ECMP Load Balancing
IP Unnumbered
GRE
VRF Lite

Link Aggregation functions

Static LAG
Dynamic LAG (LACP)
LAG Balancing Algorithm
Multi-Switch Link Aggregation Group (MLAG)

IPv6 functions

IPv6 Host
Dual-stack

Service functions

Virtual Cable Testing (VCT)
Optical transceiver diagnostic
Green Ethernet

Security functions

Protection against unauthorized DHCP servers (DHCP Snooping)
DHCP Snooping
DHCP Option 82
IP Source Guard
Dynamic ARP Inspection
First Hop Security
sFlow
MAC-based authentication, Port Security, Static MAC entries
Port-based authentication IEEE 802.1x
Guest VLAN¹
DoS attack prevention
Traffic segmentation
DHCP clients filtering
BPDU attacks prevention
NetBIOS/NetBEUI filtering
PPPoE Intermediate Agent

Quality of Service (QoS)

QoS statistics
Shaping, Policing
IEEE 802.1p Class of Service (CoS)
Storm Control for different types of traffic (broadcast, multicast, unknown unicast)
Bandwidth management
Scheduling algorithms: Strict Priority/Weighted Round Robin (WRR)
Three marking colors
ACL-based CoS/DSCP mark assignment
ACL-based VLAN assignment
Setting the IEEE 802.1p priority for management VLAN
DSCP to CoS/CoS to DSCP remarking
802.1p, DSCP mark assignment for IGMP

ОАМ

IEEE 802.3ah Ethernet OAM
IEEE802.1ag Connectivity Fault Management (CFM)¹
IEEE802.3ah Unidirectional Link Detection (UDLD)

ACL (Access Control Lists)

L2-L3-L4 ACL
Time-Based ACL
IPv6 ACL
ACL based on:

Physical port number
IEEE 802.1p
VLAN ID
EtherType
DSCP
Protocol type
TCP/UDP port numer
User Defined Bytes

Management functions

Download and upload of configuration file via TFTP/SCP/SFTP
Redirecting the output of CLI commands to an arbitrary file on ROM
SNMP
Command line interface (CLI)
Web interface
Syslog
SNTP (Simple Network Time Protocol)
NTP (Network Time Protocol)
Traceroute
LLDP (802.1ab) + LLDP MED
Processing traffic management with two 802.1Q headers
Authorization of entered commands using TACACS+ server
Access control - privilege levels
Management interface blocking
Local authentication
IP addresses filtering for SNMP
RADIUS and TACACS+ (Terminal Access Controller Access Control System) clients
Change of Authorization (CoA)
SSH server, Telnet server
SSH client, Telnet client
Remote start of commands via SSH
SSL
Macrocommands
CLI commands logging
System log
DHCP autoprovision
DHCP Relay (Option 82)
DHCP Option 12
DHCPv6 Relay, DHCPv6 LDRA (Option 18, 37)
DHCP server
PPPoE Circuit ID tag
Debugging commands
Rate limit of traffic to CPU
Password encryption
Password recovery
Ping (IPv4/IPv6 support)
DNS server (Resolver)

Monitoring functions

Statistics on interfaces
RMON/SMON
IP SLA
CPU utilization monitoring per task and per traffictype
RAM utilization monitoring
Temperature monitoring
TCAM utilization monitoring

MIB/IETF

RFC 1065, 1066, 1155, 1156, 2578 MIB Structure
RFC 1212 Concise MIB Definitions
RFC 1213 MIB II
RFC 1215 MIB Traps Convention
RFC 1493, 4188 Bridge MIB
RFC 1157, 2571-2576 SNMP MIB
RFC 1901-1908, 3418, 3636, 1442, 2578 SNMPv2 MIB
RFC 1271,1757, 2819 RMON MIB
RFC 2465 IPv6 MIB
RFC 2466 ICMPv6 MIB
RFC 2737 Entity MIB
RFC 4293 IPv6 SNMP Mgmt Interface MIB
Private MIB
RFC 3289 DIFFSERV MIB
RFC 2021 RMONv2 MIB
RFC 1398, 1643, 1650, 2358, 2665, 3635 Ether-like MIB
RFC 2668 802.3 MAU MIB
RFC 2674, 4363 802.1p MIB
RFC 2233, 2863 IF MIB
RFC 2618 RADIUS Authentication Client MIB
RFC 4022 MIB for TCP
RFC 4113 MIB for UDP
RFC 2620 RADIUS Accounting Client MIB
RFC 2925 Ping & Traceroute MIB
RFC 768 UDP
RFC 791 IP
RFC 792 ICMPv4
RFC 2463, 4443 ICMPv6
RFC 4884 Extended ICMP for Multi-Part messages support
RFC 793 TCP
RFC 2474, 3260 DS field in the IPv4 and IPv6 headers
RFC 1321, 2284, 2865, 3580, 3748 Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)
RFC 2571, RFC2572, RFC2573, RFC2574 SNMP
RFC 826 ARP
RFC 854 Telnet
IEC 61850

Physical parameters

Power supply:

100–240 V AC, 50–60 Hz;
Power options: one DC or AC power source two hot-swappable DC or AC power sources

Input current:

0.45–0.19 A for AC
1.25–0.62 A for DC

Maximum power consumption (including PoE): 45 W
Heat dissipation - 45 W
Hardware support for Dying Gasp - no
Operating temperature - from -10 to +45°С
Storage temperature - from -50 to +70°С
Operating humidity - no more than 80%
Cooling - Front-to-Back, 4 fans
Form factor - 19", 1U
Dimensions (W x H x D) - 430 x 44 x 275
Weight - 3.50 kg

¹ Values are given for 1-way transmission
² For each host in the ARP table, an entry is create

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Descriptions

Data Sheet

Software

MES23xx, MES33xx, MES35xx, MES5324_guide_for_firmware_version_update (publication date: 17.05.2021)

Firmware version 4.0.23.6 R1 (publication date: 06.12.2024)

MIB Files (publication date: 06.12.2024)

Documentations

User manual

Configuration and monitoring via SNMP

Downloads

Operational lifetime of the ELTEX equipment

Regardless of the operational lifetime stage, Eltex provides a 12 months warranty on all its telecommunication equipment.
During the warranty period the manufacturer ensures technical support and free-of-charge repair at the Enterprise which is situated in Novosibirsk.
As part of the warranty service, technical support is provided on the first-in first-out principle.
The priority support packages of 8/5 and 27/7 types are subjects to additional charges.

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