3COM ® SWITCH 7700 FAMILY DATA SHEET4PERFORMANCEBackplane capacity 8- and 7-slot chassis: 96 Gbps; 4-slot: 48 GbpsMaximum bandwidth 8- and 7-slot chassis: 240 Gbps; 4-slot: 120 GbpsMaximum throughput 8- and 7-slot chassis: 177 Mpps; 4-slot: 95 MppsLAYER 2 SWITCHINGMAC Address 32K MAC addresses10K Static MAC addressesModules forwarding (delay <10μs)9K Jumbo Frame supportVLAN 4096 VLANs (IEEE 802.1Q)Port-based (IEEE 802.1Q) and protocol-based (IEEE 802.1v) VLANSGVRP (GARP VLAN Registration Protocol)IPv6 tunneling using protocol-based VLANsLink Aggregation IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)Supports maximum of 64 link aggregation groupsAuto-negotiation Auto-negotiation of port speed and duplexTraffic control IEEE 802.3x full-duplex flow controlBack pressure flow control for half-duplexSupports broadcast storm suppression per VLANSTP/RSTP IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)IEEE 802.1S Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol instances (MSTP)Single STP instanceBPDU (Bridge Protocol Data Unit) protectionLAYER 3 SWITCHINGRoutes Hardware based routing64K routes64K static routes64K dynamic / static ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) entriesIP Routing 64 IP interfacesRIP (Routing Information Protocol), v1 and v2; supports Split HorizonsOSPF (Open Shortest Path First), v1 and v2; 50 areasBGP4 (Boarder Gateway Protocol)*IS-IS (Intra-Domain Intermediate System to Intermediate System)*Multicast Hardware-based multicast routing for wirespeed performance1K multicast routesIGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) snooping on Layer 2 interfacesIGMP v1 and v2GMRP (GARP Multicast Registration Protocol)PIM-DM (Protocol Independent Multicast-Dense Mode)PIM-SM (Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode)Network protocol DHCP Relay (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Relay)TCP/IP protocol stackARPResilience VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol): 14 virtual routers perswitch; each virtual router supports 16 IP addressesFeatures* Available in the 3Com Advanced Feature Software