New Enterasys® SecureStack™ C3 Delivers Wire-Speed Performance with Advanced Features
New Enterasys® SecureStack™ C3 Delivers
Wire-Speed Performance with Advanced Features
Introducing the new Enterasys SecureStack C3… Designed for Gigabit and 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) access at the network edge, the Enterasys SecureStack C3 delivers cost-effective IPv6 support and offers a limited lifetime warranty.
The Enterasys SecureStack C3:
- Identifies and classifies incoming traffic
- Discovers attached users, applications, and devices (LLDP-MED)
- Authenticates them using 802.1X, Web, or MAC authentication
- Enforces priority or security policies through wire-speed rate limiting, filtering, or forwarding decisions
- Leverages industry-standard IPv4/IPv6 routing, VRRP, ECMP, LACP, RSTP, SNMPv3, RMON, and IP Multicast (IPMC) support
- Utilizes role-based policies to align network resource utilization with business goals and priorities without impacting performance or reliability
Advanced Features Teamed with Wire-Speed Performance
Advanced QoS features automatically discover, classify, and prioritize voice, video, and data applications, such as IP telephony, HD video conferencing, and business intelligence analytics. Redundant power supplies ensure availability, while standards-based IEEE 802.3af power over Ethernet (PoE) options support network devices that require external power, such as wireless access points, VoIP telephones, and IP security cameras. Unique What You Need Is What You Get (WYNIWYG) identity-based policies assure service level agreement (SLA) requirements and proactively prevent security incidents based on user and application privileges that ensure only the right users have access to the right information from the right place at the right time.
The new Enterasys SecureStack C3 provides high port density in a single rack unit footprint and is environmentally friendly by design. The C3 stackable switch supports a maximum of 384 triple-speed copper ports with power over Ethernet (PoE), 192 Gigabit SFP fiber ports, and 16 XFP 10GbE connections. IPv4, IPv6, and IP Multicast routing is supported along with virtual router redundancy protocol (VRRP) and equal cost multi-path (ECMP) topology protocol. Wire-speed performance of 571.2 million packets per second throughput and 1.54 terabits per second of bandwidth is maintained even when advanced L2/L3/L4 rate limiting, packet filtering, or security quarantine features are enabled. Eight hardware-based QoS priority queues are available per port with support for 16,000 Layer 2 MAC addresses and 1024 VLANs. SNMPv3 provides secure network management capabilities.
Intelligent Integration
The new SecureStack C3 products are complemented by the Enterasys Dragon® Multi-Gigabit Intrusion Detection and Prevention appliances and the recently announced Distributed Intrusion Prevention solution. The intelligent, automated integration of the new security-enabled C3 switching/routing hardware with the Enterasys Dragon and NetSight® software delivers open-architecture network access control (NAC) and enables enterprises to predict and prevent threats and vulnerabilities by pinpointing the root-cause of network security incidents.
Enterasys NetSight management software avoids the need for manual reconfiguration every time there is a move, add, or change. Define the policies once, and Enterasys keeps up with all the mobility, expansion, and modification automatically. The network access control (NAC) privileges for an authenticated user or device are enforced dynamically, regardless of wired or wireless connectivity. The end result is high-performance capacity increases that leverage the multi-vendor management and embedded security operational expertise of Enterasys over the past 25 years.
Availability
The C3 stackable switches are available immediately from authorized Enterasys distributors and value-added resellers worldwide. A no-hassle limited lifetime warranty featuring advance replacement and no-charge firmware upgrades is included at no additional cost.
What they are saying…
“The new 10 Gigabit offerings from Enterasys clearly show the growth of the 10 Gigabit Ethernet market and Enterasys’s commitment to that market. Enterasys is delivering greater capacity with embedded policy-based security and QoS with no sacrifice in performance.”
Steven J. Schuchart Jr.
Principal Analyst
Current Analysis
“The new SecureStack C3 is simply the best combination of wire-speed performance, advanced security, and management features we have evaluated – at a lower cost than the previous C2 stackable offerings from Enterasys. If you want the industry’s best support, rock-solid reliability, and advanced security that is very affordable – you should talk to Enterasys. They deliver on their promises and are easy to work with.”
Fritz Bütikofer
Chief of the Network Group of IT Services
University of Bern
