Description

The ECS4810-12M is a carrier grade switch designed for Service Providers to deliver managed converged voice, video, and data services over virtual Ethernet and IP networks, and supporting OAM (operation, administration, and maintenance) management.

The Edge-Core ECS4810-12M is a Carrier Ethernet access switch ideal for Ethernet service demarcation, extension, and aggregation. The ECS4810-12M allows service providers to deliver managed converged services, such as voice, video, and data over virtual Ethernet and IP networks. With flexible combination Gigabit ports, QoS, advanced operation, administration, and maintenance (OAM), ITU-T Synchronous Ethernet (Sync-E), and support for extended temperature range environments, the ECS4810-12M adds value and builds differentiated services over Carrier Ethernet networks.

The ECS4810-12M is a carrier-grade aggregation switch with 12x combo Gigabit RJ-45/SFP port arrays, each of which can support copper RJ-45 or multimode, singlemode, or WDM fibre mini-GBIC MTransceiver Modules. Network link ranges of up to 80 kilometres can be acheived with mini-GBICS over singlemode optical fibre cable.

The ECS4810-12M provides powerful service monitoring and management, including IEEE 802.1ag Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) and ITU-T Y.1731, allowing service providers to monitor end-to-end services, identify connectivity and performance issues, and isolate problems from a remote location without having to dispatch an engineer to the site. The switch also provides the capability to monitor service availability, delay, and dropped packets, for verifying SLA conformance for billing purposes, and providing advance indication of performance degradation before a service outage occurs.

The ECS4810-12M provides advanced synchronisation options optimised for cellular operators looking to backhaul their data and voice traffic from base stations to their core network over Ethernet transport. The ECS4810-12M supports bit-layer clock recovery solutions, ITU-T G.8261 Synchronous Ethernet, and provides a highly robust hop-by-hop frequency mechanism.

Continuous availability is assured; G.8032 Ethernet Ring Protection Switching is provided, giving the ability for the network to detect and recover from incidents without impacting users, meeting the most demanding quality and availability requirements. Rapid recovery time when problems do occur is as low as 50 msec.

The ECS4810-12M supports L2 Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) by using Q-in-Q functions, where an 802.1Q tag from a customer VLAN is encapsulated in a second 802.1Q tag from the service-providers network. The switch supports the rewrite of VLAN tags for egress traffic when the ingress traffic is VLAN tagged. There is also support of L2 Protocol Tunneling for STP, CDP, LLDP, VTP, and PVST+, with Cisco proprietary multicast address replacement. Layer 2 PDU filtering allows a service provider to specify which Layer 2 PDUs are to be dropped at an ingress interface on a provider edge switch.

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