Ports:

•   24 SFP 100/1000 Mbps ports, of which 8 are dual personality SFP or 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-T ports
•   2 rear slots for dual-port 10-Gigabit modules, XFP-based or CX4 local connection

•  Performance: wirespeed non-blocking performance; switching capacity of up to 128 Gbps
•  Layer 2 switching: full-rate nonblocking on all ports, full-/half-duplex autonegotiation, flow control, multicast filtering, IEEE 802.1Q VLAN support, IEEE 802.1p traffic prioritization, IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol, IGMP snooping
•  Layer 3 switching: hardware-based, dynamic routing, multicast routing including OSPF and PIM
•  IPv6 support: robust IPv6 to future-proof the network, with IPv6 RIPng routing, OSPFV3, BGP4+, IS-ISV6, dual stack IPv4/IPv6, IPv6 ACLs, and IPv6 management including telnet6, TraceRoute, Ping, and SNMP
•  Security: IEEE 802.1X network login, local and RADIUS server authentication, automatic VLAN assignment via RADIUS server, Access Control Lists (ACLs); more
•  3Com management: 3Com Network Supervisor, 3Com Network Director, 3Com Enterprise Management Suite
•  Other management: CLI via console or Telnet, embedded web management interface, SNMP management