Deep Packet Buffer: 4GB VOQ architecture eliminates head-of-line blocking for lossless forwarding in storage and high-performance computing environments
- FlexRoute Technology: Supports up to 5 million IPv4 routes with flexible forwarding profiles for internet peering and service provider applications
- Layer 2 Features: IEEE 802.1Q VLANs (4,000), RSTP/MSTP, LACP link aggregation, MLAG multi-chassis LAG, jumbo frames up to 9,216 bytes
- Layer 3 Routing: BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, static routing, ECMP (512-way), policy-based routing, VRF-lite, BFD for fast failure detection
- MPLS and Segment Routing: LDP, RSVP-TE with FRR, Segment Routing (SR-MPLS), BGP labeled unicast, L3VPN, VPLS support
- EVPN-VXLAN: Full EVPN control plane for Layer 2/3 overlay networking, VXLAN routing and bridging, distributed anycast gateway
- Quality of Service: 8 queues per port, strict priority and WRR scheduling, ingress policing, egress shaping, DSCP/CoS remarking
- Security: Algorithmic ACLs for scalable access control, control plane policing, MACsec support (on M-variants), SSH, TACACS+, RADIUS
- High Availability: Dual redundant hot-swappable power supplies and fans, hitless software upgrades, stateful switchover, configuration rollback
- Telemetry and Monitoring: LANZ (latency monitoring), accelerated sFlow, DANZ precision data analyzer, streaming telemetry, gRPC
- Network Virtualization: VXLAN encapsulation/decapsulation, EVPN for multi-tenancy, VRF support for traffic isolation
- Precision Timing: PTP (IEEE 1588v2) boundary and transparent clock, SyncE for frequency synchronization