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10 Gigabit Ethernet Switching Solutions www.smc.com 10 gigabit ethernet switching solutions Turbo charge your network capacity with 10 Gigabit Ethernet WIRELESS BROADBAND SWITCHES VOIP NAS INTRODUCTION • The LAN-PHY was to be used with private fi bers such as: single mode fi ber (extended and long haul), multi-mode Ethernet is the enduring success story of local area networking. fi ber (short haul) to cover distances up to 40 kilometers. Now into its third decade it continues to develop and improve • The WAN-PHY can be used with existing SONET/SDH with support for faster speeds, new interfaces and longer trans- OC-192/STM-64 interfaces providing wide area support mission distances. The latest generation of Ethernet continues over metropolitan, national or even international networks. the tradition of increasing the transmission speed by tenfold to a staggering 10 Gigabit per second. It supports transmission Now with the introduction of copper based 10G Ethernet stan- distances of up to 40km when using single-mode fi ber optic ca- dards the LAN-PHY was updated to include new interface types. bling and enables critical business applications that were not The IEEE 802.3ak standard has been ratifi ed to use the high previously available using previous Ethernet standards. grade copper cable originally developed for the Inifi Band pro- prietary data center cabling standard. Most recently and cru- In this SMC Technology Primer we explain the jargon and show cially for the development of the 10G market is the introduction how you can benefi t from the latest 10 Gigabit Ethernet stan- of the IEEE802.3an standard which has been ratifi ed in 2006 dard. We will help you to understand the different 10 Gigabit op- to use Cat-6a/Cat-7 cabling for transmitting 10 Gigabit ethernet tions and explore the new business applications that 10 Gigabit data up to 100m. enables. Finally we will show you how SMC builds on over 30 years of design experience to give you the best 10 Gigabit Eth- WHY DO WE NEED 10 GIGABIT ETHERNET? ernet solutions on the market. The proliferation of multimedia applications combining images, THE ETHERNET FAMILY video and sound means that fi le sizes greater than 50 Mbytes are not uncommon. Users expect pictures to appear instanta- Since its development in the early 1980s by Digital Equip- neously; only Gigabit Ethernet can guarantee this level of re- ment Corporation, Intel and Xerox, Ethernet has become the sponse time. de-facto physical layer standard for local area networking. In that time it has progressed from a 10Mbps shared broadcast The continuing deployment of high performance PCs and work- system running over thick coaxial cable to 10Gbps running full stations is placing an extra strain on the network infrastruc- duplex over fi ber optic cables. As shown in Table 1, it is sup- ture. While existing Fast Ethernet switches with Gigabit uplinks ported over a variety of copper and fi ber media at distances are fi ne for connecting a few PCs and laptops equipped with from 100 meters to 40 kilometers. 100Mbps Fast Ethernet, they are not appropriate for use in a company deploying Gigabit-capable PCs, workstations and servers. For these environments a high performance Gigabit THE 10 GIGABIT ETHERNET STANDARDS Ethernet switch with a 10 Gigabit uplink capability is absolutely necessary to give the required levels of control, network perfor- The original 10 Gigabit Ethernet standard (IEEE 802.3ae) was mance, security and reliability. ratifi ed in June 2002. It follows the standard set by previous Ethernet standards in keeping the media access control (MAC) As the price of the latest 10 Gigabit components inevitably layer separate from the physical media layer (PHY). Two types drops, most fi le servers and data storages devices will start to of PHY were defi ned: the LAN-PHY and the WAN-PHY. support 10 Gigabit trunks. This will allow even more Gigabit ca- pable PCs and workstations to connect at full speed as shown in Figure 1. Type Speed (Mbps) IEEE Standard Media Types PHY Type Distance Copper (UTP) 10Base-T 100m Ethernet 10 802.3 Fiber (MMF) 10Base-FL 2km Copper (UTP) 100Base-TX 100m Fast Ethernet 100 802.3u Fiber (SMF/MMF) 100Base-FX 400m Copper (UTP) 100Base-CX 100m Fiber (MMF) 100Base-SX 550m Gigabit Ethernet 1000 802.3ab/z Fiber (SMF) 100Base-LX 10km Fiber (SMF) 100Base-LH 70km Fiber (LAN-PHY) 10GBase-R 10-40 km SDH (WAN-PHY) 10GBase-W 10-40 km 10 Gigabit Ethernet 10000 802.3ae DWDM 10GBase-LX4 0.3-10 km 802.3ak Copper (Infi niBand) 10GBase-CX 15-20 m 802.3an Copper 10GBase-T 100 m • Server Farms EfidXcLj\ij Clusters of high speed computers can now be built us- Gfn\iLj\ij ing low cost processor blades to form high performance com- =`c\J\im\ij puter grids or meshes. In many academic and government research networks, 10 Gigabit Ethernet is being used to replace the previous proprietary interconnects such as In- fi niBand, Servernet or Myranet. J\im\ij • Data back-up and disaster recovery ('>`^Jn`kZ_ kJn`kZ_ =Xjk<k_\ie\ The extra distance support when using single-mode fi ber makes n`k_>`^XY`kLgc`eb 10 Gigabit Ethernet suitable for backing up data between data >`^XY`kJn`kZ_ n`k_('>`^Lgc`eb centers up to 40 kilometers apart as shown in Figure 3. This makes it viable for using dark fi ber connections between data Figure 1: 10 Gigabit LAN infrastructure centers located across large metropolitan areas. \i 9XZblg;XkX:\ek knfib The 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches can connect directly to stor- JkfiX^\8i\XE\ \ij age and servers and also be used to build a 10Gbps network E\knfibLj backbone running between the main Gigabit switches in the J\im\ij network. J\im\ij ('>`^Jn`kZ_ WHICH APPLICATIONS WILL BENEFIT ('>`^Jn`kZ_ =`c\ /D J\im\i FROM 10 GIGABIT ETHERNET? JD://+ Figure 3: Data back-up and business continuity The main applications for 10 Gigabit Ethernet are: • Storage Area Network SMC’S 10 GIGABIT ETHERNET SWITCH 10 Gigabit Ethernet can now be used to build storage area net- SOLUTIONS works (SANs) replacing mechanisms like FiberChannel, Ultra160 or 320 SCSI. Now with the completion of the iSCSI protocol as SMC Networks has over 30 years experience in design- defi ned by IETF RFC 3720, iSCSI has the full error recovery ing and manufacturing network equipment. SMC’s Ether- feature set required by enterprise storage managers. iSCSI can net switches provide a complete off-the-shelf solution in- provide up to 5 times the performance of equivalent FiberChan- cluding chassis systems, stackable units, fi xed and modular nel based SANs for a fraction of the cost. Plus it has the added confi gurations for 10/100/1000Mbps and 10Gbps Ethernet over advantage of being able to operate over longer distances than copper or fi ber. FiberChannel as shown in Figure 2 below. SMC Networks’ TigerSwitch and TigerStack range of Gigabit Ethernet switches provide full support for: · 10Gbps connections using copper fi ber or copper interface · 10/100/1000Mbps connections using copper or fi ber interfaces · Full VLAN support with GVRP and IEEE 802.1s/v support · Multilink trunking with LACP · Broadcast fi ltering, traffi c prioritization and rate limiting ;XkX:\ek\i) · Robust security features such as: ACLs, 802.1x for secure 9XZblg;XkX:\ek\i network access enabled by RADIUS and TACACS + and SSH, ;XkX:\ek\i( SSL/HTTPS for secure management · Full SNMP Management using EliteView or any other SNMP- J\im\ij based management system J\im\ij J\im\ij LEGEND 10G FIBER ('>`^Jn`kZ_ 1G FIBER ('>`^Jn`kZ_ ('>`^Jn`kZ_ 10G COPPER 1G COPPER Figure 2 10/100 PoE WIRELESS WIRELESS BROADBAND SWITCHES VOIP NAS TigerSwitch 10G SMC8708L2 The TigerSwitch 10G - SMC8708L2 is a manageable Layer-2 Switch with eight 10G XFP slots and a high-performance 160Gbps non-blocking architecture which guarantees si- multaneous full duplex activity on all ports, even when running at full load. TigerStack ll 1000 SMC8824M/ SMC8848M The TigerStack II 10/100/1000 1000 SMC8824M/48M stacks up to 8 units in a stack, pro- viding up to 384 Gigabit ports. A stack can be created with either of the 24 or 48 port switches, providing unprecedented fl exibility. It provides up to 48 built-in copper Gigabit ports, including (4) Combo SFP ports supporting either copper links or SFP adapters for easy, fl exible connection to fi ber-based Gigabit media and a switching capacity of up to 176Gbps. The 2 10G module slots on the rear of the switch provide support for 10G con- nections. These provide high bandwidth connections to the core of a network and are in additon to the 2 stacking connectors giving high capacity connections to the other units in the stack. TigerSwitch 10G SMC8724-10BT The TigerSwitch 10G SMC8724-10BT is a 24 port 10G Switch. It is the fi rst high density 10GBASE-T switch including 20 x 10GBASE-T ports complying with IEEE802.3an support- ing up to 100m on Cat6a cabling. For connecting buildings or more remote locations 4 x XFP ports are included for longer distances. This switch is ideal of datacenter and cluster ap- plications enabling wirespeed performance using easy to manage cabling. The manage- ment software included is L2/L4 for advanced control and quality of service. 10G Network Interface Cards SMC10GPCIe-10BT/SMC10GPCIe-XFP The SMC Tiger Card™ 10G portfolio includes 10GBASE-T and XFP. They are PCIe (x8) half height cards supporting wirespeed connections from your servers to the rest of the network.
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