The HP ProCurve Switch 3500 Series consists of the most advanced intelligent edge switches in the HP ProCurve Networking product line. The 3500 series includes 24-port and 48-port stackables. The foundation for all these switches is a purpose-built, programmable ProVision ASIC that allows the most demanding networking features, such as Quality of Service (QoS) and security, to be implemented in a scalable yet granular fashion. With a variety of Gigabit and 10/100 interfaces, integrated PoE and Non-PoE options,10-GbE capability on Gigabit switches, the 3500 switches offer excellent investment protection, flexibility, and scalability, as well as ease of deployment, operation, and maintenance.

Management

• Remote Intelligent Mirroring: mirrors selected ingress/egress traffic based on ACL, port, MAC address, or VLAN to a local or remote 8200zl/6200yl/5400zl/3500yl switch anywhere on the network


Connectivity

• IPv6: IPv6 host: the switches can be managed and deployed at the edge of IPv6 networks; Dual stack (IPv4/IPv6): provides transition mechanism from IPv4 to IPv6; supports connectivity for both protocols; MLD snooping: forwards IPv6 multicast traffic to the appropriate interface; prevents IPv6 multicast traffic from flooding the network; IPv6 ACL/QoS: supports ACL and QoS for IPv6 network traffic; IPv6 ready: the switch hardware can support IPv6 routing, tunneling, and security.


Performance

• High-speed/capacity architecture: up to 153.6 Gbps crossbar switching fabric provides intra- and inter- module switching with up to 111.5 million pps throughput on the purpose-built ProVision ASICs


Resiliency and high availability

• Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (requires Premium License): VRRP allows groups of two routers to dynamically back each other up to create highly available routed environments


Layer 2 switching

• IEEE 802.1ad Q-in-Q (requires Premium License): increases the scalability of Ethernet network by providing a hierarchical structure; connects multiple LAN's on high-speed campus or metro network


Layer 3 services

• UDP helper function: UDP broadcasts can be directed across router interfaces to specific IP unicast or subnet broadcast addresses and prevent server spoofing for UDP services such as DHCP


Layer 3 routing

• Static IP routing: provides manually configured routing; includes ECMP capability