HP 10500 series Specifications page 3

Data sheet | HP 10500 Switch Series
• Monitor link
Collects statistics on performance and errors on physical links, increasing system availability
• Packet storm protection
Protects against unknown broadcast, unknown multicast, or unicast storms with user-defined
thresholds
• Flow control
Provides back pressure using standard IEEE 802.3x, reducing congestion in heavy traffic
situations
Software-defined Networking (SDN)
• OpenFlow 1.3
Enables SDN to provide an end-to-end solution to automate the network, allowing for rapid
application deployments (Comware v7 only)
Quality of Service (QoS)
• Powerful QoS feature
Supports the following congestion actions: strict priority (SP) queuing, weighted round robin
(WRR), weighted fair queuing (WFQ), and WRED
Resiliency and high availability
• Redundant and load-sharing fabrics, management, fan assemblies, and power supplies
Increases total performance and power availability while providing hitless, stateful failover
• All hot-swappable modules
Allows replacement of modules without any impact on other modules
• Separate data and control paths
Separates control from services and keeps service processing isolated; increases security and
performance
• Passive design system
Delivers increased system reliability as the backplane has no active components
• Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF)
Creates virtual resilient switching fabrics, where 2 or more switches perform as a single
L2 switch and L3 router; switches do not have to be co-located and can be part of a
disaster-recovery system; servers or switches can be attached using standard LACP for
automatic load balancing and high availability; can help eliminate the need for complex
protocols such as Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), Equal-Cost Multipath (ECMP), or Virtual Router
Redundancy Protocol (VRRP), thereby simplifying network operation
• IRF capability
Provides single IP address management for a resilient virtual switching fabric of up to
4 switches
• Ring resiliency protection protocol
Provides standard sub-100 ms recovery for a ring Ethernet-based topology
• VRRP
Allows groups of 2 routers to dynamically back each other up to create highly available routed
environments
• Device Link Detection Protocol (DLDP)
Monitors link connectivity and shuts down ports at both ends if unidirectional traffic is
detected, preventing loops in STP-based networks
• Hitless patch upgrades
Allows patches and new service features to be installed without restarting the equipment,
increasing network uptime, and facilitating maintenance
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