1.1 Overview of the Switch

In today's businesses, PCs are provided to every worker and corporate networks are used for many purposes such as IP telephony, Internet access, and core business activities. As a result, businesses are faced with ever-growing communication traffic.

Networks carry mission-critical data that influences corporate profits. Formerly, the mission-critical market was focused on Internet service providers (ISPs) and network providers. In the future, however, this market will increasingly expand into corporate and public local area networks.

Through their applicability to mission-critical fields, the Switch provides flexible options for building a highly reliable, available, and scalable information network infrastructure.

Product concept

The Switch is a Gigabit Layer 3 Switch that is ideal for a wide range of scenes, from core to base connections, with highly reliable and highly functional, compactly condensed core routers that have been developed to realize a "gathered network."

The Switch delivers the following functionality:

Provide cutting-edge IPv6 and multicast capabilities, plus routing protocols such as OSPF and BGP4 used by large-scale networks, for configuring a wide variety of flexible networks.
Support various types of network redundancy for highly reliable and highly available networking.
The stack functionality connects multiple switches to make them operate as one logical switch, providing centralized management, redundancy, and scalability.
Provides link aggregation and 10Gbit/s,40Gbit/s,100Gbit/s ports. Enables a network with sufficient capacity for increased traffic.
Provide a guaranteed network to protect the entire range of traffic handled within a company (such as core work data, VoIP telephony data, teleconferencing, video streaming, and CAD data) using QoS technology and other functions.
Safeguard networks by security functionality such as high-performance filtering and user authentication.
Enable full-wire-rate packet forwarding.
Network partitioning that reduces the costs required to configure and operate a network by virtually handling and integrating multiple service networks in a physical network.