COMMANDO SOLDIER E3000 Series Managed Switches Data Sheet

COMMANDO Soldier E3000 Series switches are L3 Aggregation and Access Series Routing Switches are fully managed L3 having 24 and 48 GE switch ports PoE+ or Non PoE Models plus additional fiber/copper 10G/10GE SFP+ uplinks with network resiliency and high availability which delivering robust performance and intelligent switching for growing networks. This series switches are easy to deploy, use, manage and designed exclusively for enterprise-class aggregation layer and as edge networks Switches, specially built for Security, IoT, and Cloud networking needs of growing businesses, high-end campus networks for Small-Medium Business (SMB). Designed for operational simplicity to lower total cost of ownership, they enable scalable, secure, and energy-efficient business operations with intelligent and automated services. This intelligent managed routing switches designed for networks requiring High performance, High port density, High uplink bandwidth, Flexibility, Fault Tolerance, and Advanced Software features for maximum Return on Investment (ROI). Switch has with full PoE/PoE+ capability on all ports and bandwidth up to 216Gbps, Layer 3 feature support static and dynamic routing, these are optimized for today’s surveillance, mobile and IoT needs. Designed for operational simplicity to lower total cost of ownership, they enable scalable, secure, and energy-efficient business operations with intelligent and automated services. 

It has high performance fiber/copper 10G/1G ports which helps it to meet the requirement of High end campus LAN, Metro/Enterprise networks. Each switch is capable to deliver 15.4W PoE, 30W PoE+ power on all ports along with automated power (ON/OFF) scheduling with IEEE 802.3af compliant PoE (Power over Ethernet), 802.3at compliant PoE+ (Power over Ethernet plus) and having power budget up to 600W. Switches are PoE/PoE+ capable to provide power across all access ports for wireless APs, security cameras, and other IoT devices which are used in surveillance. These switches are powerful and flexible enough for users to deploy PoE/PoE+ standard supplies up to 30W of power per port which is backward compatible with 15.4W PD which makes it ideal for applications using high power wireless access points, PTZ (Pan Tilt Zoom) IP cameras, Surveillance cameras, 802.11ac and 802.11ax access points, small cells, and connected LED lighting devices over longer distances up to 250 meters.

It’s software includes OSPF, RIP, Static route, QoS Traffic classification based on Layer 2, Layer 3, Layer 4, and priority information Actions including ACL, CAR, and re-marking, Queue scheduling modes such as PQ, WFQ and PQ+WRR, Congestion avoidance mechanisms, including WRED and tail drop, Traffic shaping, SNMPv1/v2c/v3, ERPS (G.8032), Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP), 802.1x authentication, RADIUS and TACACS+ authentication for login, DoS, ARP, MAC address attacks, broadcast storms, and heavy-traffic and ICMP attack defenses, Remote Network Monitoring (RMON).

These switches have advanced Security features, and advanced Quality of Service (QoS), ideal for all organizations considering reliable, affordable hardware with well known CLI and simple Web managed real time interface. Automated PoE/PoE+ scheduling, Scripting capabilities, Layer 3 routing, Automatic MDIX and Auto-negotiation on all ports select the right transmission modes (half or full duplex) as well as data transmission for crossover or straight-through cables dynamically. Moreover, with its innovative energy-efficient technology, can save up to 58% of power consumption, making it an eco-friendly perfect solution for your business network. These switches come with lifetime free software upgrades and patching to enhance features and supports patching, which provides fixes for critical bugs and security vulnerabilities between regular maintenance upgrades. This support allows customers to add new features and upgrades without having to pay a single dollar.

It has a 4K-entry VLAN table which provides VLAN classification according to port-based, protocol-and-port-based, MAC-based, and Flow-based capability. It also supports IVL (Independent VLAN Learning), SVL (Shared VLAN Learning), and IVL/SVL (both Independent and Shared VLAN Learning) for flexible network topology architecture. It provides IEEE802.1ad (Q-in-Q) for double tag insertion and removal function. In additions, VLAN translation function is also supported for Metro Ethernet applications with up to 32K entries L2 MAC table are supported with 2-left 4-way hashing algorithm which can effectively reduce collision ratio. An independent 4K-entry Multicast table is used to support Multicast functions, such as IGMP snooping. The device supports a 4K-entry VLAN/Ingress/Egress Access Control List (ACL). The ACL function supports L2/L3/L4 match fields and performs configurable actions, such as Drop/Permit/Redirect/Mirror/Logging/Policing/Ingress VLAN conversion/Egress VLAN conversion/QoS remarking/VLAN tag status assignment. Per-port ingress/egress bandwidth control and per-queue egress bandwidth control are supported. The device provides three types of packet scheduling, including SP (Strict Priority), WFQ (Weighted Fair Queuing), and WRR (Weighted Round Robin). Each port has 8 physical queues, and each queue provides a leaky-bucket to shape the incoming traffic into the average rate behavior. The Broadcast/Multicast/Unknown-Multicast/Unknown-Unicast storm suppression function can inhibit external and internal malicious attacks. The switch supports 4-sets of port mirror configurations to mirror ingress and egress traffic. RSPAN are also supported for traffic monitoring purposes. For network management purposes, complete MIB counters are supported to provide forwarding statistics in real time. The link aggregation function enhances link redundancy and increases bandwidth linearly. It offers robust QoS to optimize traffic on your Business Network, these switches provide (Port-based/802.1p/DSCP) QoS to keep latency-sensitive video and voice traffic jitter-free moving smoothly. Additionally, port-based, tag-based VLAN, Voice VLANs can improve security and meet more network segmentation requirements. This series switches also have provisioning of QOS, Static and dynamic routing for IPV6 clients.

Product Highlights

COMMANDO Soldier E3000 L3 Aggregation and Access Series uplink Routing Switches are Carrier Grade high-performance switch which helps it to meet the requirement of High end campus, Metro/Enterprise networks.

 

Full feature software Licensee free for Lifetime

• Full featured without license installations: COMMANDO SoldierOS switches comes with inbuilt free for lifetime for across all model that provides you with an easier, faster, and more consistent experience across the COMMANDO portfolio and across your company for inbuilt all license installation.
• No Activation key required: No requirement of PAK (Product Activation Key) to activate L2+ and L3 features.
• Operational Flexibility: Free patching to enhance features for enhanced version of SoldierOS, with the  objective of providing a free licensing solution that does not interrupt the operations of network.
• Limitless term period for consumption: For limitless time, permanent and without an expiration date and limitless term period software features can be used. You can consume all features for whatever period you like.

 

Higher serviceability and return on investment

• Lower CAPEX: Ensures network scalability and reduces investment in devices. Lowers Total Cost of Ownership with no license requirement (Lowers Capex).
• Lower OPEX: No licenses charges for L2+ and L3 features inbuilt for lifetime. No license fees (Lowers OpEx) lifetime free software upgrades and patching to enhance features and supports patching, which provides fixes for critical bugs and security vulnerabilities between regular maintenance upgrades.
• Zero cost of switch maintenance: Lifetime Free Software Licensing and Upgrades are free for lifetime. Users do not have to worry about switch license expiring and software getting outdated and purchasing license (which is constant concern and worry of few other brands). This series has improved HTTP base firmware upgrade as well as CLI based upgrades which are freely available to all users without any cost or license fee for lifetime. It is easy to install, configure, monitor, and troubleshoot. It significantly reduces cost of administration and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
• Supports and Use Open standard protocols, so interoperable with devices from other vendors, enabling long-term network evolution.
• Supports IP packet fragmentation and reassembling, enabling oversized IP packets to travel across a WAN network without limited by the MTU. The switch can also identify fragmented packets to seamlessly interconnect with routers.

 

High-performance IP routing

• Supports routing protocols which includes static route and dynamically learned route with protocols like Routing Information Protocol (RIP) version 1 and 2, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) Version 2. Support up to 16000 MAC address tables, 6000 IP routing table entries, up to 6000 host routes and dynamic routing is supported by hardware with maximum performance.
• IPv6 addressing and static routing is supported along with monitoring and troubleshooting commands.

 

Inter-device Link Aggregation, High Efficiency and Reliability

• Support link aggregation LAG/LACP with 8 group. Switches in an LAG all work in active state to share traffic and back up each other, enhancing system reliability.
• 8 Ports can be aggregated in to single LAG/LACP group which allowing flexible networking.

 

High Reliability and Fault tolerance

• Fans support up to 3 with front-to-back airflow design suits equipment rooms and network racks and the innovative energy conservation technologies greatly reduce power consumption.
• Temperature Control Fan which support Real-time environment monitoring technology to detect the chip set temperature, status of fan and power, etc.
• Support LACP / VARP / STP/ RSTP/ MSTP etc. to protect the network traffic all-around effectively.

 

Intelligent PoE/ PoE+ with Automated Scheduling

• Automates the PoE/PoE+ requirements in networks on per port basis.
• Advanced per port PoE/PoE+ controls for remote power management to automate ON/OFF of PoE/PoE+ capable devices on particular specified timing per port basis.
• Auto ON/OFF PoE/PoE+ as per Scheduled time which makes them intelligent.

 

Perpetual POE/PoE+

With Perpetual PoE/PoE+, no power downtime to connected PD devices. PD devices remains power ON even when any software process is not running on the switch. Provides non-stop PoE/PoE+ power and continue to provide power during configuration and reboot, the PDs will not lose power while reloading. The Perpetual POE provides uninterrupted power to connected powered device (PD) even when the switch is booting to make it highly available network without any interruptions.

 

Varied Port Types

• Supports 24 and 48 GE switch ports PoE+ or Non PoE Models along with Fixed 10G/10GE uplink ports.
• Support varied management interfaces, include RJ45 Console port / USB Console port.
• Support fixed uplinks having capacity 10G/1G ports to meet requirement in surveillance and IOT networks which cover up to 80Km with fiber connectivity of SFP+/SFP up to 10G modules and also has 10G/1G copper modules.

 

Support critical network infrastructure

• It also comes with Lighting surge thunder protection ±6KV. With this feature protect on cost and the impact to your business by losing these network devices and thus the users/servers connected to them.

 

System Design for Green and Energy Saving

• Support Intelligent FAN speed adjustment technology with maintenance redundancy and help to build a green and energy saving switches.
• IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) to reduce power dissipation during periods of low packet traffic.

 

L2 to L4 QoS Control

• Provides 13 hardware queues per-port (8 unicast queues, 4 multicast queues, and 1 monitor queue).
• Support multi-stage scheduling technology such as WDRR (Weighted Deficit Round Robin) / SP (Strict Priority) and TD (Tail Drop) / WRED (Weighted Random Early Detection) to prevent congestion.
• Traffic classification based on COS/DSCP (simple classification).
• Traffic classification based on ACL (complex classification), Traffic classification based on inner header of the tunnel packets.
• Queue scheduling with Remark the priority fields (COS/DSCP) of the packet based on ACL or Remark the priority fields (COS/DSCP) of the packet based on the Table.
• Flow redirection, Flow mirror with traffic policing based on direction (in/out) of Port, Traffic policing based on direction (in/out) of VLAN, Traffic policing based on direction (in/out) of flow, Traffic policing based on direction (in/out) of aggregated flow Queue based traffic shaping, and Port based traffic shaping.
• Supports scheduling like SP (Strict Priority) scheduling, WDRR (Weighted Deficit Round Robin) scheduling, TD(Tail Drop) WRED (Weighted Random Early Detection).
• Packet counts and bytes statistics based on traffic classification, Packet counts and bytes statistics based on the color after traffic, Forwarded and discarded packet counts and bytes statistics, ECN tags based on Tail Drop, ECN tags based on WRED
• Support flexible queue scheduling mechanism to do the shaping for queue or port traffic.
• Ingress and egress policer provide intelligent bandwidth monitoring, which support to adjust the granularity according to the port speed.
• Offers high bandwidth for Triple-Play services such as IPTV, video monitoring. The built-in QoS capabilities and flexible queuing technologies guarantee high quality of services.

 

Multicast

• Rich multicast protocol set (IGMP Snooping, IGMP v1/v2, PIM-SM) support up to 1000 multicast groups and 1K logical replications per group. With SoldierOS software, IPTV service and multicast latency control are fully supported.

 

Security

• IPv4 / IPv6 / MAC ACL can filter IPv4 / IPv6 / Non-IP packet respectively. Besides that, extended IPv4/IPv6 ACL which can match Layer 4 / layer 3 / layer 2 information in one rule is available. The ACLs can apply to physical ports / VLAN / port group / VLAN group. The members of port group or VLAN group share a set of ACLs and save the TCAM resource.
• ARP Inspection and IP Source Guard features prevent network from malicious ARP attack.
• Support CPU Traffic Protection, Storm Control and CPU load optimization features and hardware watchdog function.
• Support centralized 802.1x authentication feature to forbidden illegal user accessing network.

 

Convenient Management features

• Support varied management interfaces, include RJ45 console port / USB console ports/ Mini USB port.
• Support SNMP v1/v2/v3, Support CLI (Command Line Interface), web management, Telnet and FTP connection.
• Support SSH 2.0, SSL, etc. to ensure security of management.

 

System Design for Green and Energy Saving

• Support Intelligent FAN speed adjustment technology with maintenance redundancy and help to build a green and energy saving switches.
• IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) to reduce power dissipation during periods of low packet traffic.

DHCP Server

Multiple IPv4 DHCP pools with Inbuild DHCP server can be set. DHCP pools and interface for individual VLANs. It also supports IPv4/ IPv6 DHCP Client, IPv4/ IPv6 DHCP Relay Option 82, IPv4/ IPv6 DHCP Snooping.

 

Intelligent PoE/ PoE+ with Intelligent scheduling

Scheduling automate the PoE/PoE+ requirements in networks along with automatic PD detection on ports and auto PD Power rating and requirement. Advanced per port PoE/PoE+ controls for remote power management to automate ON/OFF of PoE/PoE+ capable devices on particular specified timing per port basis with auto ON/OFF PoE/PoE+ as per Scheduled time which makes them intelligent.

 

Perpetual PoE/PoE+ for no power downtime

For connected PD devices even when for any reason switch reboots or switch process hanged or not running, It provides non-stop PoE/PoE+ power and continue to provide power during any hanged condition and reboot.

 

L3 Features

Supports static route, default route, dynamically learned route and dynamic routing protocol with protocols set like RIPv1, RIPv2, OSPFv2. It also has PIM including PIM SM, bidirectional PIM, and Source-Specific Multicast (SSM). It also has QoS, ACLs (Port based/ IP based/ MAC Based), DHCP Server and Client, DHCP Snooping, DHCP Snooping option82, DHCP Relay.

 

Watchdog Function

This ensures high availability which is used to protect a system from specific software or hardware failures that may cause the system to stop responding and self-recover from hanged state.

 

L2+/L2 Features

This series is having advance L2+/L2 features like Port aggregation with 8 ports, VLAN, Voice VLAN, Surveillance VLANs Spanning Tree (STP, RSTP, MST), GVRP, 802.1X authentication, centralized MAC authentication, Guest VLAN, RADIUS authentication, SSH 2.0, Port isolation, Port security, MAC address learning limit, IP Source guard, Dynamic ARP inspection, Preventing man-in-the-middle attacks and ARP DoS attacks, IP/Port/MAC binding. Flexible Software features provides wide range of Layer 2 functions like VLAN, Multicasting, and Quality of Service (QoS), Security.

 

Secure Networking

IEEE 802.1X port-based access control with surveillance VLAN, Port Security, Protected Port which also Prevent ARP Spoofing. L4/L3/L2 access control lists (ACLs) for granular network access control including 802.1x port authentication. ACL, L4 to L2 feature restricts access to sensitive network resources. DHCP Snooping ensures IP address allocation integrity by only allowing DHCP messages from trusted DHCP servers and dropping malformed DHCP messages with a port or MAC address mismatch. With DHCP Snooping binding and option82 enabled, it can combine dot1x and ARP. IP-MAC-Port-VID Binding, Port Security, Storm control which protect against broadcast storms. The switches support ARP attack and DoS attack prevention to safeguard the network.

 

Multicast

IGMP Snooping (v1, v2, v3), Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) (v1/v2), Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR) designed for distribution of multicast traffic across segregated access networks which enables more efficient distribution of multicast streams in Layer 2 network.

 

QoS Features

Advanced QoS (Quality of Service) for traffic prioritization including port based, 802.1p and L4/L3/L2 DSCP based. L4/L3/L2 QoS optimize voice and video applications. Access Control List based, VLAN ID based IP precedence, COS and DSCP. Policy Based on Port & VLAN, Remark DSCP, COS/ 802.1p, Precedence, COS for SP, WRR for Scheduling and matching the IP fragmentation of message.

 

10G Uplinks

10G copper/fiber Switchports as well as Uplink supports high speed networking requirement and reduces copper cabling investment for LACP and LAGs and improves network backbone. It supports high-speed access to the network backbone or data center environment. This provides great resiliency, relieves congestion associated with bandwidth-intensive applications, and guarantees smooth hassle-free data transmission.

 

Easy Management

With familiar and popular Command Line interface (CLI), there is no need for engineers to be hired or additional resources to be spent on training and/or learning the switch CLI. Management is made easy via Web GUI or industry-standard Command Line Interface (CLI), with administration traffic protected via SSL or SSH encryption. SNMP (v1/v2c/v3) and RMON support enables the switch to be polled for valuable status information and allows it to send traps when abnormal events occur. This series is having highly reliable, conformance to international open standards, durable, serviceable, aesthetics, perceived quality, enhanced performance with larger range with copper cables and usability leads to value to money. Easy Management via lots of options like Web-based Graphical User Interface (WEBUI), Industry standard Command Line interface (CLI) via console, USB console port, telnet, SSH, HTTP, HTTPS and Putty.

 

Auto MDIX Capabilities

Auto sensing/Auto PoE/PoE+ 10/100/1000 ports with auto MDIX capabilities which also removes speed and duplex mismatches automatically as well as covers larger physical distance with copper pairs compared to other brands best switches.

 

Lifetime Free Software Licensing and Upgrades

SoldierOS Software license and Upgrades are free for lifetime. Users do not have to worry about switch license expiring and software getting outdated and purchasing license (which is constant concern and worry of few other brands). This series has improved HTTP base firmware upgrade as well as CLI based upgrades which are freely available to all users without any cost or license fee for lifetime. It is easy to install, configure, monitor, and troubleshoot. It significantly reduces cost of administration and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

 

Flexible Service Control

With various ACLs to flexibly control ports. It also supports Port-based VLAN assignment, MAC address-based VLAN assignment, Protocol-based VLAN assignment, and Network segment-based VLAN assignment. These secure and flexible VLAN assignment modes are used in networks where users move frequently. It also supports GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP), which dynamically distributes, registers, and propagates VLAN attributes to ensure correct VLAN configuration and reduce network administrator workloads. This series switches supports SSH v1/v2/v3, RMON, port-based traffic statistics, LLDP/LLDP-MED.

 

Compact Design with Flexibility of additional ports

The switches provide additional deployment flexibility, fiber connectivity for easy expansion of your networks up to 80Km. So, you can directly connect to a high-performance storage server or deploy a long-distance uplink to another switch.

 

Perfect for Noise-Sensitive Environments

This series comes with fans along with Small form-factor, for silent operation. Perfect for noise sensitive environments. Fan based Switches have Temperature- and load-based fan-speed up to 10000 rpm control combines accurate monitoring with minimized system acoustic noise. The Fan based switches also feature built-in smart fans that monitor and detect temperature changes, adjusting the fan speed for maximum efficiency. At lower temperatures, the fans run at a lower speed, reducing both the power consumption and noise output of the switch.

 

Zero Maintenance

Cost efficient switches, with a reasonable PoE/PoE+ power budget up to 600W along with PoE/PoE+ configurable scheduler which is backward compatible with all PD to automated Power ON/OFF connected PoE/PoE+ devices as per scheduled timing with Cost of ownership is less compared to other products of same features as well as zero maintenance. Maximum power reduction for ongoing operation cost savings.

 

Easy Debugging and Troubleshooting

Ping, Traceroute, SNMP, RMON, Web based real time Switch ports monitoring with WEBUI and CLI can easily troubleshoot any problem in network with various show and debug commands.

 

Longer Distance Coverage

State of art quality switches that can serve real time high-speed performance which covers longer physical distance up to 250 meters with copper pairs compared to other brands.