Allied Telesis 24i - Manual

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Switches

RAPIER 'i' SERIES

WAN Capable Layer 3 Fast Ethernet Switches

Rapier 16fi

16 por t 100FX (SC or MT-RJ) Fast Ethernet
Layer 3 switch with 2 uplink bays and WAN
access bay

Rapier 24i

24 por t 10/100TX Fast Ethernet Layer 3
switch with 2 uplink bays and WAN access
bay

Rapier 48i

48 por t 10/100TX Fast Ethernet Layer 3
switch with 2 uplink bays

Performance

Allied Telesis' Rapier 'i' series of 10/100Mbps
Layer 3 switches deliver an unprecedented level
of integration, feature richness and switching
performance at affordable prices. With wirespeed
Layer 2 switching and wirespeed Layer 3 IP
routing on all por ts, these switches are designed
for high-performance desktop connectivity,
workgroup and ser ver farm aggregation or
backbone applications. In addition to the
impressive switching performance, the Rapier 'i'
series brings a large set of optional high-level
Layer 3 and security features for more advanced
networking applications.

Progressive Features

All Allied Telesis' Layer 3 switches come with the
feature rich operating system AlliedWare, which
includes Layer 3 IP Static Routing, RIP, RIPv2, VRRP
and OSPFv2 routing protocols. For advanced
networking applications Allied Telesis offers the
Rapier 'i' series with three optional feature
licenses: Full Layer 3 upgrade, Advanced Layer 3
upgrade, and Security upgrade. The Full Layer 3
upgrade enables a set of additional routing
protocols such as IPX, DVMRP, VRRP, PIM-
DM/SM and RSVP. The Advanced Layer 3
upgrade provides a set of the specialized
protocols consisting of IPv6, BGP4, and Load
Balancer. The Security upgrade offers an ICSA-
cer tified Stateful Inspection Firewall as well as
both SMTP and HTTP application gateways.

WAN Support - Rapier Switch/Router

The Rapier 16fi and 24i models suppor t an
optional Network Ser vices Module (NSM) with
a variety of Por t Interface Cards (PICs) to
provide Wide Area Network connectivity for
E1, T1, PRI ISDN, BRI ISDN, Asynchronous and
Synchronous communications, Frame Relay and
X.25. The AlliedWare operating system provides
Layer 3 IP static routing, RIP, RIPv2, VRRP and
OSPFv2 routing protocols, while optional
specialized protocols are also available such as
BGP4, IPX, RSVP and the multicast routing
protocols of DVMRP and PIM-DM/SM. These
routing features give the Rapier 16fi and 24i the
ability to not only act as a managed Layer 3
switch, but also as a fully specified router with
four WAN interfaces.

Switching Features

The Rapier 'i' series of switches are some of the
most powerful switches on the market. All
Rapier 'i' Layer 3 switches include a suite of
advanced switching features such as IEEE
802.1Q VLAN Tagging, IGMPv2, 802.1p Traffic
Prioritization of packets at Layer 3 and Layer 4,
and broadcast and multicast traffic control. The
Quality of Ser vice (QoS) features offered by the
Rapier 'i' series are par ticularly useful for multi-
tenant unit, multi business unit, Telco, or
Network Ser vice Provider applications.

Return on Investment

Today's economy demands that network
investments provide a Return On Investment
sooner rather than later. Cost effectiveness is
achieved three ways. First, Rapier 'i' is the first
Layer 3 switch with an integrated WAN router.
Networks using a Layer 3 switch that does not
suppor t WAN routing need to incorporate
additional router equipment at extra expense.
Second, Rapier 'i' has three optional feature
licences so you only pay for the specialized
features you need. Third, the Rapier 'i' series of
switches offer the greatest variety of uplinks at
the lowest cost.

Key Features

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Wirespeed Layer 2 - Layer 7 filtering

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Wirespeed Layer 3 IP routing

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Wirespeed Layer 2 switching

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Non-blocking at full line rate for all packet
sizes (Rapier 16fi & Rapier 24i)

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Port trunking with link aggregation

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Stacking with open standards based interfaces

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Stateful Inspection Firewall

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BGP-4 option

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IPv6 option

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Load Balancer option

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Support up to 255 VLANs

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Private VLANs

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Bandwidth limiting

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Broadcast and multicast traffic control

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MVR

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IPsec

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L2TP

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IP RIP v1 and v2

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OSPF v2

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VRRP

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TACACS+

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802.1x

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SNMPv3

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2 uplink bays

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DHCP snooping

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DHCP option 82