EC-AS6701-32X-C-AC-F specification sheet

Overview:

 

The Edge-Core AS6701-32X-C is a high-performance standard Data Center switch for top-of-rack (TOR) or spine applications. In a compact IRU form factor, this switch provides line-rate L2 and L3 switching across up to 32 QSFP+ ports, supporting up to 32x 40GbE connections or 104 10GbE connections. The AS6701-32X-C can be deployed as a TOR switch supporting 10GbE or 40GbE server connections, or as a spine switch, supporting 10GbE or 40GbE spine interconnects. The switch provides 20 fixed QSFP+ ports and two modular slots, each capable of supporting 6 x QSFP+ ports or a future NPU module for deep packet inspection, traffic analysis or other applications. The AS6701-32X-C comes with Cumulus Linux – the leading OS for data center switching systems.

 

Features:

• Cumulus Linux is a Linux operating system that runs on top of industry-standard networking hardware. It is a software-only solution that accelerates robust networking functions at wire rate on a variety of platforms and is the ultimate choice when it comes to flexibility and innovation, enabling the best-of-breed hardware ecosystem and best-of-breed application ecosystem. Cumulus Linux is Linux. It is not just based on Linux, it is Linux and offers the entirety of the Linux experience on networking hardware. Existing open source and commercial Linux applications run natively on industry-standard switches. New applications can be developed and integrated rapidly, enabling innovation cycles on par with software and application cycles.

• Cumulus Linux is first and foremost a networking-focused Linux distribution. It enables modern data center architectures while providing a transition path for traditional data center architectures.
• High-capacity IP fabrics enable scale, simplicity and rapid evolution
• Automation: zero touch install and zero touch provisioning simplify operations
• Modern data center orchestration, monitoring and troubleshooting provide operational efficiencies
• Prescriptive Topology Manager simplifies operations from physical/logical topology consistency to simplified configuration based on a user-specified network graph
• Overlay networks enable flexibility and rapid provisioning of multi-tenant network 

• Cumulus Linux is the foundation for a rich application ecosystem. Being Linux, it is a platform that can leverage existing Linux applications, and it is the foundation for development and rapid integration of third party applications.Modern data center network orchestration tools such as Ansible, CFEngine, Chef and Puppet work on Cumulus Linux. Modern data center monitoring tools such as collectd and Ganglia work on Cumulus Linux. Leverage scores of applications across compute and network from the more than 40,000 Debian app

• Server-style upgrade/patching across minor releases, server-style process restart/ termination. Support for zero touch OS installation using ONIE loaded on industrystandard switches.

• Linux extensibility — Any language supported in Linux today, including scripting with Bash, Python, Perl, Ruby

• The switch hardware abstraction layer accelerates Linux kernel networking constructs in hardware, including the routing table, ARP table, bridge FDB, ip/ebtables, bonds,VLANs, VXLAN bridges. Hardware management also includes jumbo frames support and environmental management

• Enhanced Quagga IPv4/v6 routing suite including OSPFv2, OSPFv3, BGPv4/v6,Equal-Cost Multi-Path (ECMP). Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)

• Bridge management with MSTPd including STP (IEEE 802.1d), RSTP (IEEE 802.1w),PVRST, PVST, bridge assurance, BPDU guard, BPDU filter. VLAN trunks (IEEE802.1q), LACP (IEEE 802.3ad), unicast/broadcast storm control, LLDP, CDP, IPv6neighbor discovery, IPv6 route advertisement. Host HA (through Host-MLAG).IGMPv2/v3 snooping, MLDv1/v2 snooping. Virtual Router Redundancy (VRR).

• VXLAN support*, L2 gateway services integration with VMware NSX *, Lightweight Network Virtualization (LNV)*

• Native Linux management tools such as OpenSSH, SCP, FTPS. Automated Install/Upgrade: zero touch install and zero touch provisioning. DHCP, v4/v6 DHCP relays.Authentication with LDAP, authorization with sudo NTP. Advanced management/orchestration through third party add-on packages. 

• Traditional monitoring with SNMPv2/v3 and network-specific MIB, analytics with SPAN,ERSPAN, ACL-based counters, DOM optics data, thermal sensors, real time queuedepth and buffer utilization reporting. Troubleshooting with dnsutils, syslog, reachability tools, hardware inventory, log fles, server-style filesystem, and merchant silicon specific commands.A dvanced troubleshooting and ease of use with Prescriptive Topology Manager. 

• Access control lists (ACLs) L2-L4 classification through ip/ebtables, CPU protection through hardware enforced ACL-based rate limiting. 

QoS

• Classification based on Class of Service (CoS) (IEEE 802.1p) or DSCP (queuing,scheduling (DWRR and Strict Priority), buffer allocation)*. Ingress ACL-based classification/policing.