Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. XG700 and XG2000

TTOLLY H E GROUP No. 207227 July 2007

Fujitsu Computer Test Products of America, Inc. Summary XG700 and XG2000 Switches Functionality Certification and Cooperative Interoperability Evaluation Test Highlights Premise: Network managers who deploy a variety of Fast Ethernet, Giga- Earns ﬁve Switch Interoperability certiﬁcations for Layer 2 bit Ethernet and 10GbE switching advanced LAN functions devices in their networks need guaran- teed interoperability of these switches in Achieves broad Layer 2 interoperability with 15 switches order to maintain a functional network. from nine vendors Interoperates with other devices tested when supporting 10- ujitsu Computer Products of Gigabit Ethernet LAN PHY interface, 802.1p/Q VLAN tags, F America, Inc. commissioned Jumbo Frame Support, Link Aggregation, and Rapid The Tolly Group to evaluate its Spanning Tree Protocol Fujitsu XG700 and XG2000 LAN switches for interoperability with other brand switches. Fujitsu Switches Tested Partial List of Tolly Switch Tolly Group engineers subjected the Fujitsu XG700 and XG2000 switches to Interoperability Certifications Earned more than a dozen tests with devices from 3Com, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco Certification Result Systems, Enterasys, Extreme Networks, Foundry Networks, IBM Nortel and Hewlett-Packard Co. 802.1p/Q VLAN Tag Propagation Engineers subjected the Fujitsu XG700 and XG2000 switches to advanced LAN services tests, including support for 10GbE LAN PHY support 802.1p/Q VLAN tag propagation, Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) and Jumbo Frames. The Fujitsu switches Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) achieved interoperability with other devices tested. Tests were conducted in March/April Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) 2007 at Terremark Worldwide Inc.’s world-class NAP of the Americas facility in Miami, a major Internet peering Jumbo Frame Support point for carriers and service providers. Source : The Tolly Group, April 2007 Figure 1

Jumbo Frame Support dor combinations using LACP. For Executive this Layer 2 test, the Fujitsu XG700 The Fujitsu XG700 and XG2000 and XG2000 switches achieved in- Summary switches interoperated with every teroperability with 15 other partici- The Fujitsu switches switch tested. Devices earning this pating switches. certification demonstrated the abil- demonstrated broad ity to transmit Jumbo Frames (9K Note that the Fujitsu XG700 and interoperability with 15 bytes) across all vendor switch XG2000 switches were not tested other switches for combinations. (See Figure 2.) with a 3Com 5500G-EI PWR 48- advanced LAN and port switch module and the 10GbE LAN PHY Fujitsu XG700 switch was not routing functions at Support tested with an Alcatel-Lucent Om- Layer 2. This verifies that the device tested niSwitch 6850-P24X due to the lack In a world of ever-evolving has the ability to transmit data of common physical standards and tight budgets, between multiple vendors’ 10GbE interfaces. See Figure 2. network managers searching for interfaces. In this test, the Fujitsu Rapid Spanning Tree new equipment need to know XG700 and XG2000 switches suc- Protocol (802.1W) that the switches they purchase cessfully interoperated with all Devices earning this certification are interoperable with their cur- other devices tested. See Figure 2. have demonstrated the ability to rent infrastructure. It is impor- Link Aggregation detect a failure of the Layer 2 Span- tant for managers to know 802.3ad ning Tree via the Rapid Spanning which devices can maintain Tree protocol and to establish a new their interoperability with dif- This test verifies a device's ability Layer 2 "tree." In networks where ferent standardized and non- to trunk ports across multiple ven- multiple data paths exist, this standardized functions. Engineers tested 23 switches ,'%##,$)'%&'!#!),')!!)!%$( from nine vendors to determine +')%*"!)(* $+!) ( the various levels of interoperability offered.

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approach provides a quicker re- switches tested can be found in establishment of traffic paths Figure 3 below. Fujitsu and dramatically reduces user Details on the methodology used Computer downtime when compared with for each of the tests can be located Products of traditional 802.1D Spanning on The Tolly Group’s Web site at America, Tree devices. www.tolly.com. Inc. Note that due to the lack of Terremark Worldwide provided XG700 common physical interfaces, • facilities and logistics support for Switch Fujitsu XG700 and XG2000 the Switch Interoperability Study switches were not tested with a 2007. Terremark’s NAP of the • XG2000 Switch 3Com 5500G-EI PWR 48-port Americas facility in Layer 2 Feature switch module and the Miami provided state-of-the-art Interoperability Fujitsu XG700 switch was not power provisioning, management tested with an Alcatel-Lucent and cooling that were critical to a OmniSwitch 6850-P24X. test of this scale. Test Setup and The Siemon Company provided Product Speciﬁcations Vendor-supplied information not Methodology custom length, reliable, high qual- necessarily veriﬁed by The Tolly Group ity patch cables for the testing – Fujitsu Computer Tolly Group engineers tested 10G Augmented Cat 6 Shielded the Fujitsu XG700 and XG2000 Products of America, Inc. patch cables, and XGLO™ Sin- switches. Full details on the Fujitsu XG700 Switch: glemode Fiber Optic Cables. software versions of the Fujitsu • 12-port CX4 10GbE switch • Single chip, non-blocking ASIC enables low latency of 450ns in The Tolly Group Switch Interoperability Study 2007 a compact 1U form factor Device Under Tes t (DUT) Information • Hot plug, redundant power supplies and fans standard HW Revis ion Device Under Tes t SW Vers ion (Chassis revision for • Cut-through and store-and- modular s witch) forward switching 3Com Switch 4200G 24-Port 3Com OS V3.01.00s168 REV. B • Jumbo Frame support up to 3Com OS 3Com Switch 4500G 24-Port REV. B 15KB V5.01.00s168p01 3Com Switch 5500G-EI PWR 48-Port 3Com OS V3.02.00s168 REV. C Fujitsu XG2000 Switch: Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6850-P24X 6.1.3.719.R01 06 Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 9800 (OS9800-CFM, • 20-Port 10-GbE Switch 6.1.3.719.R01 B05 OS9700-U2, OS9700-24) • Single chip, non-blocking ASIC Cisco Catalyst 6509-E (WS-SUP720-3BXL, IOS 12.2(18)SXF4 1.2 enables low latency of 300ns in WS-X6704-10GE, WS-X6748-GE-TX) Enterasys SecureStack A2H124-48 01.04.05 BCM5655 REV 18 a compact 1U form factor Enterasys SecureStack B3G124-24 01.00.70 BCM56504 REV 19 • On-chip 3MB proprietary, Enterasys SecureStack C3G124-48 01.00.76 BCM56504 REV 19 multi-stream buffer Enterasys Matrix N1-DFE (7G4202-30) 05.35.16 0 • Available as 20-port XFP optical Enterasys Matrix X4 Secure Core Router (X-CM- 1.3.3 0 solution or 16 CX4 ports with 00-RH, X4-FM-RH, X-M2-00-RH, X-T32-00) four additional ports of XFP op- Extreme Summit X424a-24t ExtremeXOS ver. 11.6.1.9 1.0 Extreme Blackdiamond 8806 (800112-00-20, tics ExtremeXOS ver. 11.6.1.9 5.0 800116-00-02, 800159-00-04) • Hot plug, redundant power E10L10 XF0073 Fujits u XG700 supplies and fans standard 2005/10/26-13:14:42 E10L10 X12 2007/02/09- • Cut-through and store-and- Fujitsu XG2000 08:26:03 forward switching Foundry FastIron Edge X424 Premium 03.2.00T3e3 • Jumbo Frame support up to Foundry FastIron SX800 (SX-FI2XGMR4, 03.2.00T3e3 SX-F424C) 15KB Foundry NetIron MLX (NI-MLX-MR, NI-MLX- IronWare Ver. 3.3.0T163 10Gx4, NI-MLX-1Gx20-GC) For more information contact: Foundry BigIron RX (RX-BI-MR, RX-BI-4XG, IronWare Ver. 2.3.0bT143 RX-BI-24C) Fujitsu Computer Products IBM Norte l La ye r2-3 GbE S witch Module 1.2.5.0 1 of America (Copper) 1255 East Arques Avenue IBM Nortel 10Gb Uplink Ethernet Switch Module 1.0.1.1 0 IBM Nortel 10Gb Ethernet Switch Module 1.0.1.1 5 Sunnyvale, CA 94085-4701 HP GbE2c L2/L3 Ethernet Blade Switch for HP 2.0.0 0A Tel: 408-746-7000 c-Class BladeSystem Toll free: 800-626-4686, Option 1 URL:http://us.fujitsu.com/ethernet The Tolly Group, April 2007 Figure 3

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Test Equipment Summary The Tolly Group gratefully acknowledges the providers of test equipment used in this project.

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