D-LINK DES 6500 Network hub

D-LINK DES 6500 - The DES-6500 is a core Layer 3 chassis-based Gigabit switch that provides everything a business needs for a switched network. This 9-slot chassis offers a high (...) See more See less

port density, comprehensive network media support with multiple link aggregation, a high switch fabric capacity of 160Gbps supporting wire-speed L2/L3 packet switching, fault tolerance with line card hot-swap and redundant power backup capabilities, Quality of Service (QoS)/Class of Service (Cos), complete user access security, traffic monitoring and comprehensive network management. Designed for performance and flexibility, this chassis offers you the edge device router simplicity and the price/performance ratio necessary to deploy a cost-effective enterprise, backbone and campus network. Using standards-based routing, the DES-6500 provides instant support for Windows, Unix and Internet environments. Built-in wire-speed non-blocking switch fabric provides hardware-based packet filtering/forwarding. Packet routing is performed by on-board ASICs, which is many times faster than traditional CPU-based routers. You can configure the switch with up to 96 Gigabit ports, 192 twisted-pair Ethernet ports, or 96 fibre Ethernet ports, or a combination of these. Copper Gigabit and fibre Gigabit (SX, LX and SFP included) are supported. This comprehensive network media support allows you to flexibly configure the chassis for workstations, departmental server and backbone/campus connections. With 8 line card slots and a wide range of user-selectable port types, the DES-6500 allows you to easily add modules to increase port density as your need grows, without changing your chassis. The hardware and software features of the DES-6500 work together to allow customers to build affordable, high performance, high availability networks. Line card hot-swap capability makes it easy to add or remove line cards to simplify troubleshooting and replace sparing. The DES-6500 also supports redundant power option to maximize Network uptime. Other features include support for RIP v.1,V (Description excerpted from: Oyyy)