The S5720-EI series enhanced Gigabit Ethernet switches are switches that provide flexible GE access ports (including optical, electrical, and combo ports) and 10GE uplink ports. Built on next-generation high-performance processors and Huawei Versatile Routing Platform (VRP), the S5720-EI provides larger table sizes and higher hardware processing capabilities than equivalent switches. Besides, it provides comprehensive service processing capabilities, enhanced security control, and mature IPv6 features, and supports MACsec, intelligent stack (iStack), flexible Ethernet networking, and easy operations and maintenance (O&M). With all these advantages, the S5720-EI is widely used for access/aggregation in enterprise campus networks or gigabit access in data center networks.

• 48 Gig SFP ports, 4 10GE SFP+ ports
• One extended slot
• Double hot swappable AC or DC power supplies, one AC power supply equipped by default
• Forwarding performance: 162 Mpps
• Switching capacity: 598 Gbit/s

Card Types

The S5720-EI (C series and PC series) provides one extended slot for ES5D21X02S01 (2-port 10GE SFP+ rear interface card) for upstream connections, or ES5D21VST000 (dedicated stack card with two QSFP+ ports) for stack connection.

Easy Operations and Maintenance (O&M)

The S5720-EI models with power sockets on the front panel can be installed in a 300 mm deep cabinet and maintained from the front panel. This simplifies equipment O&M and allows more flexible cabinet deployment. The small-sized cabinets can be placed against a wall or back to back to save space in the equipment room.

The S5720-EI allows management personnel to remotely switch on the SYS indicator on the front panel. After configuration commands are used, the SYS indicator quickly blinks within a certain period, helping the management personnel locate the device in the equipment room quickly and efficiently.

The S5720-EI supports Super Virtual Fabric (SVF), which virtualizes the "Core/Aggregation switches + Access switches + APs" structure into a single logical device. The S5720-EI enables the simplest network management solution in the industry. It allows plug-and-play of access switches and APs. In addition, the S5720-EI supports service configuration templates. The templates are configured on core devices and automatically delivered to access devices, enabling centralized control, simplified service configuration, and flexible configuration modification. The S5720-EI functions as a client in an SVF system.

The S5720-EI supports EasyOperation, a solution that provides zero-touch deployment, replacement of faulty devices without additional configuration, USB-based deployment, batch configuration, and batch remote upgrade. The EasyOperationS5720-EI Series Enhanced Gigabit Switches 12 solution facilitates device deployment, upgrade, service provisioning, and other management and maintenance operations, greatly reducing O&M costs. The S5720-EI can be managed using Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) v1/v2c/v3, command line interface (CLI), web-based network management system, or Secure Shell (SSH) V2.0. Additionally, it supportsremote network monitoring (RMON), multiple log hosts, port traffic statistics collection, and network quality analysis, which facilitate network optimization and reconstruction.

The S5720-EI supports Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol (TWAMP) to accurately check any IP link and obtain the
entire network's IP performance. This protocol eliminates the need of using a dedicated probe or a proprietary protocol.

Intelligent O&M

The S5720-EI provides telemetry technology to collect device data in real time and send the data to Huawei campus network analyzer CampusInsight. The CampusInsight analyzes network data based on the intelligent fault identification algorithm, accurately displays the real-time network status, effectively demarcates and locates faults in a timely manner, and identifies network problems that affect user experience, accurately guaranteeing user experience.

The S5720-EI supports a variety of intelligent O&M features for audio and video services, including the enhanced Media Delivery Index (eMDI). With this eDMI function, the switch can function as a monitored node to periodically conduct statistics and report audio and video service indicators to the CampusInsight platform. In this way, the CampusInsight platform can quickly demarcate audio and video service quality faults based on the results of multiple monitored nodes.

Multiple Reliability Mechanisms

The S5720-EI supports intelligent stack (iStack). This technology can virtualize up to nine physical switches into a single logical switch. Member switches in a stack implement redundancy backup to improve device reliability and use inter-device link aggregation to improve link reliability. iStack ensures path failover within 200 milliseconds and implements hitless master/backup switchover. iStack provides strong network expansion capability, enables easy increase of ports, bandwidth, and processing capacity of a stack, and simplifies configuration and management.

The S5720-EI is equipped with two removable power supplies that can work in 1+1 redundancy backup mode. Mixed installation of AC and DC power supplies is supported, allowing for flexible configuration of AC and DC power supplies according to service requirements. The S5720-EI provides two removable fan modules. The fan speed can be adjusted according to working temperatures of the device, improving device reliability.

In addition to traditional STP, RSTP, and MSTP, the S5720-EI supports Huawei-developed Smart Ethernet Protection (SEP) technology and the latest Ethernet Ring Protection Switching (ERPS) standard. SEP is a ring protection protocol specific to the Ethernet link layer, and applies to various ring network topologies, such as open ring topology, closed ring topology, and cascading ring topology. This protocol is reliable and easy to maintain, and implements fast protection switching within 50 ms. ERPS is defined in ITU-T G.8032. It implements millisecond-level protection switching based on traditional Ethernet MAC and bridging functions.

The S5720-EI supports Smart Link and Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP), which implement backup of uplinks. One S5720-EI switch can connect to multiple aggregation switches through multiple links, significantly improving reliability of access devices.

In addition, the S5720-EI provides multiple connection fault detection mechanisms, including Ethernet OAM (IEEE 802.3ah/802.1ag/ITU Y.1731) and Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD).

Enhanced Service Processing Capability and Comprehensive Security Control Mechanisms

The S5720-EI supports the multi-VPN-instance CE (MCE) function, which allows connection of users in different VPNs. The switch supports large multi-instance routing tables to isolate users in different VPNs. Users in multiple VPNs connect to a provider edge (PE) device through the same physical port on the switch, which reduces the cost on VPN network deployment. The S5720-EI supports Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) L3VPN, MPLS L2VPN (VPWSVPLS), MPLS-TE, and MPLS QoS. It is one of a few cost-effective MPLS-capable fixed switches.

With enhanced network admission control (NAC) functions, the S5720-EI supports 802.1X authentication, MAC address authentication, Portal authentication, and hybrid authentication, and can dynamically delivery user policies such as VLANs, QoS policies, and access control lists (ACLs). It also supports user management based on user groups. You can specify authentication-free IP network segments and enable redirection of HTTP connection requests to realize fast deployment of clients. If clients do not support HTTP access, the S5720-EI can trigger Portal authentication for the clients.

The S5720-EI provides a series of mechanisms to defend against DoS and user-targeted attacks. DoS attacks are targeted at switches and include SYN flood, Land, Smurf, and ICMP flood attacks. User-targeted attacks include bogus DHCP server attacks, IP/MAC address spoofing, DHCP request flood, and change of the DHCP CHADDR value.S5720-EI Series Enhanced Gigabit Switches 13

The S5720-EI sets up and maintains a DHCP snooping binding table, and discards the packets that do not match the table entries. You can specify DHCP snooping trusted and untrusted ports to ensure that users connect only to the authorized DHCP server.

The S5720-EI supports strict ARP learning, which protects a network against ARP spoofing attacks to ensure normal network access.

Enhanced QoS Control Mechanism

The S5720-EI provides excellent QoS capabilities and supports queue scheduling and congestion control algorithms. Additionally, it adopts innovative priority queuing and multi-level scheduling mechanisms to implement fine-grained scheduling of data flows, meeting service quality requirements of different user terminals and services.

The S5720-EI implements complex traffic classification based on packet information, such as the 5-tuple, IP preference, ToS, DSCP, IP protocol type, ICMP type, TCP source port, VLAN ID, Ethernet protocol type, and CoS. ACLs can be applied to the inbound or outbound direction of a port.

The S5720-EI supports flow-based two-rate three-color CAR. Each port supports eight priority queues, multiple queue scheduling algorithms, such as WRR, DRR, SP, WRR+SP, and DRR+SP, and WRED that is a congestion avoidance algorithm. All of these features ensure high-quality voice, video, and data services

Mature IPv6 Technologies

The S5720-EI uses the mature, stable VRP software platform and supports IPv4/IPv6 dual stacks, IPv6 routing protocols (RIPng, OSPFv3, BGP4+, and IS-ISv6), and IPv6 over IPv4 tunnels (including manual, 6-to-4, and ISATAP tunnels). With these IPv6 features, the S5720-EI can be deployed on a pure IPv4 network, a pure IPv6 network, or a shared IPv4/IPv6 network, helping achieve IPv4-to-IPv6 transition.

OPS

Open Programmability System (OPS) is an open programmable system based on the Python language. IT administrators can program the O&M functions of a switch through Python scripts to quickly innovate functions and implement intelligent O&M.

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