FS S5850-48B8C: an Ideal Core Switch for Large-Scale Networks

Looking for a core switch to meet the demands of your large-scale network? The FS S5850-48B8C switch is tailored for reliable data transmission, ensuring high-speed, secure, and intelligent networks. This article explores the core layer's significance and delves into the advanced hardware features and comprehensive software capabilities of the FS S5850-48B8C switch.

What Is the Core Layer of Network Architecture?

The core layer is a critical component of the three-layer network architecture (core layer, distribution layer, and access layer) that constitutes an enterprise or organizational network. The core layer is responsible for high-speed transmission of a large amount of data between different subnets.

Features of the Core Layer:

• High-bandwidth transmission: The core layer enables high-bandwidth transmission for large-scale data, including multimedia, video, and large file transfers.

• Fast forwarding and low latency: Core layer switches ensure fast forwarding, enabling millisecond data packet transmission between subnets with minimal latency.

• High reliability and redundancy: The core layer incorporates redundancy measures, such as redundant links, hardware devices, and routing protocols, ensuring network reliability and fault tolerance.

• Scalability: The core layer supports network growth by accommodating new subnets and devices without becoming a bottleneck.

• Simplified network structure: The core layer simplifies the overall network structure, reducing complexity in the distribution and access layers for easier management and maintenance.

• Enhanced security: The core layer provides security features like ACLs and firewalls to safeguard network resources from unauthorized access and attacks.

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Why Is S5850-48B8C an Ideal Core Switch for Large Scale Networks?

Enhanced Hardware Features

The S5850-48B8C switch is a high-performance Ethernet layer 3 switch, offering 48x 25G ports and 8x 100G QSFP28 uplink ports. It provides flexible deployment options for various network scenarios. With a switching capacity of 4Tbps and a forwarding rate of 2976Mpps, the S5850-48B8C switch ensures efficient and reliable data transmission, meeting the requirements of large-scale network core layers.

FS S5850-48B8C switch features redundant, hot-swappable power supplies (1+1 redundancy) and fans (2+2 redundancy), ensuring uninterrupted operation and minimizing downtime during maintenance.

Comprehensive Software Capabilities

The FS S5850-48B8C switch is highly suitable for core layer deployment in large networks due to its high performance, network reliability, enhanced security, and flexible management. These features ensure that the network can operate efficiently in response to large-scale data processing, high reliability requirements, security needs, and complex management operations, and meet various performance and functionality requirements of the core layer of large networks.

High Performance

The FS S5850-48B8C switch offers a wide range of features to deliver exceptional performance:

• MPLS, VPLS, VPWS, L3VPN: Provides advanced network virtualization, enabling efficient resource utilization and isolation.

• OSPF/OSPFv3, BGP4/BGP4+, ISIS: Supports efficient routing protocols for optimized route calculation and network stability.

• VXLAN, NVGRE: Facilitates scalable and flexible network overlays, enhancing the network's ability to support large-scale infrastructures.

• ECMP routing: Offers 64-way load balancing and redundancy, ensuring efficient traffic distribution and high availability.

• PFC, RoCE, IPFix, Latency Monitor, EFD: Enhances network analysis capabilities, supporting features like priority flow control, RDMA over Converged Ethernet, IP flow information export, latency monitoring, and enhanced forwarding detection for better performance and troubleshooting.

Network Reliability and Redundancy

FS S5850-48B8C switch supports functions to deliver reliable and redundant networking:

• MLAG (Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation): Ensures seamless failover and load balancing across multiple chassis, enhancing network resilience.

• G.8031, G.8032, ERPS: Provides network protection and redundancy through efficient Etheranet ring protection and rapid recovery from failures.

• LACP, VRRP, VARP, BFD, Smart Link: Supports link redundancy and availability, facilitating load balancing, failover mechanisms, and quick detection of link failures.

Enhanced Security

This switch also provides enhanced security for networking configuration:

• 802.1X, RADIUS, and TACACS+: Enables secure user authentication for robust network security.

• ACL, DHCP Snooping, ARP Inspection, and IP Source Guard: Provides comprehensive network access control mechanisms.

• Control Plane Protect (CoPP): Supports black & white list management and rate limiting features to enhance control plane protection.

Flexibility and User-friendly Operation

The FS S5850-48B8C switch delivers flexible management and operation:

• WEB/CLI/SNMP/SSH: Provides flexible management options.

• COS/DSCP (simple classification): Ensures efficient QoS.

• IPv4/IPv6 ACL and MAC whitelisting: Enhances network security.

Summary

Overall, the FS S5850-48B8C switch's powerful hardware features and comprehensive software functions make it the suitable choice for core layer deployment, capable of effectively addressing large-scale data processing. For more cutting-edge network switches and customized network solutions, please visit FS.com.