Specifications

• SLX 9540 - 24S
• 100 GbE/40 GbE ports enabled per switch N/A
• 10 GbE/1 GbE combo ports enabled per switch 24
• 1 GbE ports enabled per switch 24
• Port type 10 GbE SFP+ 1 GbE SFP+
• Packet buffers per switch 6 GB
• MAC address scale 640,000
• VLAN scale 4,096
• Route scale (in hardware) 256,000 (IPv4), 64,000 (IPv6)
• Jumbo frame (maximum size) 9,216 bytes
• QoS priority queues (per port) 8
• MPLS With SLX-OS advanced feature license
• Carrier Ethernet 2.0 With SLX-OS advanced feature license
• NSX With SLX-OS advanced feature license
• 802.3-2005 CSMA/CD Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications RFC 768 UDP
• 802.3ab 1000BASE-T RFC 791 IP
• 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet RFC 792 ICMP
• 802.3u 100BASE-TX, 100BASE-T4, 100BASE-FX Fast Ethernet at 100 Mbps with Auto-Negotiation RFC 793 TCP
• 802.3x Flow Control RFC 826 ARP
• 802.3z 1000BASE-X Gigabit Ethernet over fiber optic at 1 Gbps RFC 854 TELNET
• 802.3ad Link Aggregation RFC 894 IP over Ethernet
• 802.1Q Virtual Bridged LANs RFC 903 RARP
• 802.1D MAC Bridges RFC 906 TFTP Bootstrap
• 802.1w Rapid STP RFC 950 Subnet
• 802.1s Multiple Spanning Trees RFC951 BootP
• 802.1ag Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) RFC 1027 Proxy ARP
• 8023.ba 100 Gigabit Ethernet RFC 1042 Standard for the Transmission of IP
• 802.1ab Link Layer Discovery Protocol RFC 1166 Internet Numbers
• 802.1x Port-Based Network Access Control RFC 1122 Host Extensions for IP MulticASting
• 802.3ah Ethernet in the First Mile Link OAM3 RFC 1191 Path MTU Discovery
• ITU-T G.8013/Y.1731 OAM mechanisms for Ethernet RFC 1340 ASsigned Numbers
• General Protocols RFC 1519 CIDR
• RFC 1542 BootP extensions
• RFC 1591 DNS (client)
• RFC 1812 Requirements for IPv4 Routers
• RFC 1858 Security Considerations for IP Fragment Filtering
• RFC 2131 BootP/DHCP helper
• RFC 2578 Structure of Management information Version 2
• RFC 2784 Generic Routing Encapsulation
• RFC 3021 Using 31-Bit Prefixes on IPv4 Point-to-Point Links
• RFC 3768 VRRP
• RFC 4001 Textual Conventions for Internet Network Addresses
• RFC 4950 ICMP extensions for MPLS
• RFC 5880 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
• RFC 5881 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection for IPv4 and IPv6 (Single Hop)
• RFC 5882 Generic Application of Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
• RFC 5883 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection for Multihop Paths
• RFC 1745 OSPF Interactions
• RFC 1772 Application of BGP in the Internet
• RFC 1997 Communities and attributes
• RFC 2385 BGP Session Protection via TCP MD5
• RFC 2439 Route Flap Dampening
• RFC 2918 Route Refresh Capability
• RFC 3392 Capability advertisement
• RFC 3682 Generalized TTL Security Mechanism, for eBGP Session Protection
• RFC 4271 BGPv4
• RFC 4364BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks
• RFC 4456 Route Reflection
• RFC 4486 Sub Codes for BGP CeASe Notification Message
• RFC 4724 Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP
• RFC 4893 BGP Support for Four-octet AS Number Space
• RFC 5065 BGP4 Confederations
• RFC 5291 Outbound Route Filtering Capability for BGP-4
• RFC 5396 Textual Representation of Autonomous System (AS) Numbers
• BGPv4 RFC 5668 4-Octect AS specific BGP extended Community
• RFC 1745 OSPF Interactions
• RFC 1765 OSPF Database Overflow
• RFC 2154 OSPF with Digital Signature (Password, MD-5)
• RFC 2328 OSPF v2
• RFC 3101 OSPF NSSA
• RFC 3137 OSPF Stub Router Advertisement
• RFC 3630 TE Extensions to OSPF v2
• RFC 3623 Graceful OSPF Restart
• RFC 4222 Prioritized Treatment of Specific OSPF
• Version 2
• RFC 5250 OSPF Opaque LSA Option
• RFC 1195 Routing in TCP/IP and Dual environments
• RFC 1142 OSi i S-iS intra-domain Routing Protocol
• RFC 3277 IS-IS Blackhole avoidance
• RFC 5120 IS-IS Multi-topology Support
• RFC 5301 Dynamic host Name exchange
• RFC 5302 Domain-wide Prefix Distribution
• OSPF RFC 5303 three-Way handshake for IS-IS Point-to-Point
• RFC 5304 IS-IS Cryptographic authentication(MD-5)
• RFC 5306 Restart Signaling for iSiS (helper mode)
• RFC 5309 Point-to-point operation over LAN in link state routing protocols
• RFC 1122 IGMP v1
• RFC 2236 IGMP v2
• RFC 4601 PIM-SM
• RFC 4607 PIM-SSM
• RFC 4610 Anycast RP using PIM
• RFC 5059 BSR for PIM
• RFC 2474 DiffServ Definition
• IS-IS RFC 2475 An Architecture for Differentiated Services
• RFC 2597 Assured Forwarding PHB Group
• RFC 2697 Single Rate Three-Color Marker
• RFC 2698 A Two-Rate Three-Color Marker
• RFC 3246 An Expedited Forwarding PHB
• RFC 1887 IPv6 unicast address allocation architecture
• RFC 1981 IPv6 Path MtU Discovery
• RFC 2375 IPv6 Multicast Address Assignments
• RFC 2450 Proposed TLA and NLA ASsignment Rules
• RFC 2460 IPv6 Specification
• IPv4 Multicast RFC 2462 IPv6 Stateless Address Auto-Configuration
• RFC 2464 transmission of IPv6 over Ethernet Networks
• RFC 2471 IPv6 Testing Address Allocation
• RFC 2711 IPv6 Router Alert Option
• RFC 3587 IPv6 Global Unicast Address Format
• RFC 4193 Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses
• QoS RFC 4291 IPv6 addressing architecture
• RFC 4301 IP Security architecture
• RFC 4303 encapsulation Security Payload
• RFC 4305 ESP and AH cryptography
• RFC 4443 ICMPv6
• RFC 4552 auth for OSPFv3 using AH/ESP
• IPv6 Core RFC 4835 Cryptographic alg. Req. for ESP
• RFC 4816 Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)
• RFC 2740 OSPFv3 for IPv6
• RFC 2545 Use of BGP-MP for IPv6
• RFC 5308 Routing IPv6 with IS-IS
• RFC 6106 Support for IPv6 Router advertisements with DNS attributes
• RFC 6164 Using 127-Bit IPv6 Prefixes on inter-Router Links
• RFC 2205 RSVP v1 Functional Specification
• RFC 2209 RSVP v1 Message Processing Rules
• RFC 2702 TE over MPLS
• RFC 2961 RSVP Refresh Overhead Reduction extensions
• RFC 3031 MPLS architecture
• RFC 3032 MPLS Label Stack encoding
• RFC 3037 LDP applicability
• RFC 3097 RSVP Cryptographic Authentication
• RFC 3209 RSVP-TE
• RFC 3270 MPLS Support of Differentiated Services
• RFC 3478 LDP Graceful Restart
• RFC 3815 Definition of Managed Objects for the MPLS, LDP
• IPv6 Routing RFC 4090 FASt Reroute extensions to RSVP-te for LSP tunnels; partial support
• RFC 4364 BGP/MPLS IP VPNs
• RFC 4379 OAM
• RFC 4448 encapsulation methods for transport of Ethernet over MPLS networks
• RFC 4461 Signaling Requirements for Point-to-MultIPoint Traffic-Engineered MPLS Label Switched Path(LSR)
• MPLS RFC 4875 extensions to RSVP-TE for P2MP TE LSPs
• RFC 5036 LDP Specification
• RFC 5305 ISIS-TE
• RFC 5443 LDP IG P Synchronization
• RFC 5561 LDP Capabilities
• RFC 5712 MPLS Traffic Engineering Soft Preemption
• RFC 5918 LDP "Typed Wildcard" FEC
• RFC 5919 Signaling LDP Label advertisement Completion
• RFC 3343 TT L Processing in MPLS networks
• RFC 3985 Pseudowire Emulation Edge to Edge (PWE3) Architecture
• RFC 4364 BGP/MPLS IP VPNs4
• RFC 4447 Pseudowire Setup and Maintenance using LDP4
• RFC 4448 encapsulation Methods for transport of Ethernet over MPLS Networks
• RFC 4664 Framework for Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks
• RFC 4665 Service Requirements for Layer 2 Provider-Provisioned Virtual Private Networks
• RFC 4762 VPLS using LDP Signaling
• RFC 5542 Definitions of Textual Conventions for Pseudowire (PW) Management
• RFC 5601 Pseudowire (PW) Management information BASe
• RFC 6870 PW Preferential Forwarding Status Bit
• RFC 7432 BGP MPLS-BASed Ethernet VPN - Partial
• draft-sd-l2vpn-evpn-overlay-03 (A Network Virtualization Overlay Solution using EVPN) Partial
• draft-ietf-bess-evpn-overlay-04 (A Network Virtualization Overlay Solution using EVPN with VXLAN encapsulation) Partial
• SLX 9540-24S Switch AC with front-to-back airflow. Supports 24×10 GbE/1 GbE + 24×1 GbE ports.
• SLX 9540-24S Switch DC with front-to-back airflow. Supports 24×10 GbE/1 GbE + 24×1 GbE ports.
• Layer 2 VPN and PWE3 SLX 9540-24S Switch AC with back-to-front airflow. Supports 24×10 GbE/1 GbE + 24×1 GbE ports.
• SLX 9540-24S Switch DC with back-to-front airflow. Supports 24×10 GbE/1 GbE + 24×1 GbE ports.
• SLX 9540-48S Switch AC with front-to-back airflow. Supports 48×10 GbE/1 GbE + 6×100 GbE/40 GbE ports.
• SLX 9540-48S Switch DC with front-to-back airflow. Supports 48×10 GbE/1 GbE + 6×100 GbE/40 GbE ports.
• SLX 9540-48S Switch AC with back-to-front airflow. Supports 48×10 GbE/1 GbE + 6×100 GbE/40 GbE ports.
• SLX 9540-48S Switch DC with back-to-front airflow. Supports 48×10 GbE/1 GbE + 6×100 GbE/40 GbE ports.
• Upgrade 24×1 GbE ports to 24×10 GbE/1 GbE ports (for SLX 9540-24S)
• Upgrade 24×1 GbE ports to 24×10 GbE/1 GbE ports (for SLX 9540-24S)
• Advanced Feature License for MPLS, BGP-EVPN, CE2.0, NSX (for SLX 9540-24S and 9540-48S
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