HP ProCurve 2510-24G Switch

Features

Description

ProCurve Switch 2510 Series

Designed to provide essential connectivity solutions to Small Business Networks, the ProCurve Switch 2510 Series consists of four Layer 2 managed switches that provide reliable 10/100 and 10/100/1000 connectivity. Building off of the popularity of the 2510-24, a 24-port 10/100 switch with two dual-personality ports, the 2510 series has expanded to include a higher-density 2510-48, with 48 10/100 ports and four Gigabit uplinks.

Additionally, the 2510G switches add Gigabit to the 2510 series, with the 2510G-24 and 2510G-48, 24- and 48-port 10/100/1000 switches, each with 4 dual-personality portsideal for businesses that are ready to upgrade to increased network performance.

Features and Benefits

Connectivity

10/100 and 10/100/1000 connectivity: provides customers with the choice to select the network connectivity speed that best meets their needs, with a consistent user experience

• Gigabit uplinks:

-- 2510-24 and 2510-48: the 2510-24 has two dual-personality ports for either 10/100/1000 or SFP connectivity; the 2510-48 has four Gigabit ports, which can all be used concurrently with two 10/100/1000 ports and two open SFP slots
-- 2510G-24 and 2510G-48: four dual personality for either 10/100/1000 or SFP connectivity for optional fiber connectivity such as Gigabit-SX, -LX, -LH, or 100-FX

• ProCurve Auto-MDIX: automatically adjusts for straight-through or crossover cables on all 10/100 and 10/100/1000 copper ports

Resiliency and high availability

• IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) and ProCurve trunking:

-- 2510-24 supports up to two 10/100 trunks each with four links/ports plus one Gigabit trunk
-- 2510-48 supports up to 24 10/100 trunks with eight links/ports per trunk
-- 2510G switches support up to 24 trunks with eight links/ports per trunk

• IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree: provides high link availability in multiple VLAN environments by allowing multiple spanning trees; provides legacy support for IEEE 802.1d and IEEE 802.1w

Layer 2 switching

• VLAN support and tagging: support up to 64 port-based VLANs and dynamic configuration of IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging, providing security between workgroups
• GARP VLAN Registration Protocol: allows automatic learning and dynamic assignment of VLANs
• Jumbo packet support (2510G only): supports up to 9,216-byte frame size to improve performance of large data transfers

Security

• Protected ports: provides increased security by allowing specified ports to be isolated from all other ports on the switch; the protected port or ports can only communicate with the uplinks or shared resources

Multiple user authentication methods:

• IEEE 802.1X: industry-standard way of user authentication using an IEEE 802.1X supplicant on the client in conjunction with a RADIUS server
• Web-based authentication: similar to IEEE 802.1X, provides a browser-based environment to authenticate clients that do not support the IEEE 802.1X supplicant
• MAC-based authentication: client is authenticated with the RADIUS server based on clients MAC address