The S5720-SI was developed based on next-generation high-performing hardware and the Huawei Versatile Routing Platform (VRP). The S5720-SI supports simplified operations and maintenance (O&M), intelligent stack (iStack), flexible Ethernet networking, and MACsec. It also provides enhanced Layer 3 features and mature IPv6 features. The S5720-SI can be used in various scenarios. For example, it can be used as an access or aggregation switch on a campus network or as an access switch in a data center.

• 24 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports (4 of which are dual-purpose 10/100/1000 or SFP ports), 4 10GE SFP+ ports
• Dual pluggable AC or DC power supplies, one AC power supply equipped by default
• Forwarding performance: 96 Mpps
• Switching capacity: 336 Gbit/s

Powerful Service Processing Capability and Multiple Security Control Mechanisms

The S5720-SI supports many Layer 2/Layer 3 multicast protocols, such as PIM SM, PIM DM, PIM SSM, MLD, and IGMP snooping, to support multi-terminal high-definition video surveillance and video conferencing services.

The S5720-SI supports multiple Layer 3 features including OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, and VRRP, meeting enterprises' requirements on access and aggregation service bearing and enabling a variety of voice, video, and data applications.

The S5720-SI supports MAC address authentication, 802.1X authentication, and Portal authentication, and implements dynamic delivery of policies (VLAN, QoS, and ACL) to users.

The S5720-SI provides a series of mechanisms to defend against DoS and user-targeted attacks. DoS attacks are targeted at switches and include SYN flood, Land, Smurf, and ICMP flood attacks. User-targeted attacks include bogus DHCP server attacks, IP/MAC address spoofing, DHCP request flood, and change of the DHCP CHADDR value.

The S5720-SI sets up and maintains a DHCP snooping binding table, and discards the packets that do not match the table entries. You can specify DHCP snooping trusted and untrusted ports to ensure that users connect only to the authorized DHCP server.

The S5720-SI supports strict ARP learning, which protects a network against ARP spoofing attacks to ensure normal network access

Easy O&M

The S5720-SI supports Super Virtual Fabric (SVF), which virtualizes the "Core/Aggregation switches + Access switches + APs" structure into a single logical device. The S5720-SI enables the innovative network management solution in the industry. It allows plug-and-play of access switches and APs. In addition, the S5720-SI supports service configuration templates. The templates are configured on core devices and automatically delivered to access devices, enabling centralized control, simplified service configuration, and flexible configuration modification. The S5720-SI functions as a client in an SVF system.

The S5720-SI supports zero-touch deployment, replacement of faulty devices without additional configuration, USB-based deployment, batch configuration, and batch remote upgrade. The capabilities facilitate device deployment, upgrade, service provisioning, and other management and maintenance operations, greatly reducing O&M costs. The S5720-SI can be managed using Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) v1/v2c/v3, command line interface (CLI), web-based network management system, or Secure Shell (SSH) V2.0. Additionally, it supports remote network monitoring (RMON), multiple log hosts, port traffic statistics collection, and network quality analysis, which facilitate network optimization and reconstruction.

The S5720-SI supports the Sampled Flow (sFlow) function. It uses a method defined in the sFlow standard to sample traffic passing through it and sends sampled traffic to the collector in real time. The collected traffic statistics are used to
generate statistical reports, helping enterprises maintain their networks.

Intelligent O&M

The S5720-SI provides telemetry technology to collect device data in real time and send the data to Huawei campus network analyzer CampusInsight. The CampusInsight analyzes network data based on the intelligent fault identification algorithm, accurately displays the real-time network status, effectively demarcates and locates faults in a timely manner, and identifies network problems that affect user experience, accurately guaranteeing user experience.

The S5720-SI supports a variety of intelligent O&M features for audio and video services, including the enhanced Media Delivery Index (eMDI). With this eDMI function, the switch can function as a monitored node to periodically conduct statistics and report audio and video service indicators to the CampusInsight platform. In this way, the CampusInsight platform can quickly demarcate audio and video service quality faults based on the results of multiple monitored nodes.

Intelligent Upgrade

Switches support the intelligent upgrade feature. Specifically, switches obtain the version upgrade path and download the
newest version for upgrade from the Huawei Online Upgrade Platform (HOUP). The entire upgrade process is highly automated and achieves one-click upgrade. In addition, preloading the version is supported, which greatly shortens the upgrade time and service interruption time.

The intelligent upgrade feature greatly simplifies device upgrade operations and makes it possible for the customer to upgrade the version independently. This greatly reduces the customer's maintenance costs. In addition, the upgrade policies on the HOUP platform standardize the upgrade operations, which greatly reduces the risk of upgrade failures.

Multiple Reliability Mechanisms

The S5720-SI supports intelligent stack (iStack). This technology can virtualize up to nine physical switches into a single logical switch. Downlink electrical ports support iStack. Member switches in a stack implement redundancy backup to improve device reliability and use inter-device link aggregation to improve link reliability. iStack provides high network scalability. You can increase a stack's ports, bandwidth, and processing capacity by simply adding member switches. iStack also simplifies device configuration and management. After a stack is set up, multiple physical switches are virtualized into a single logical device. You can log in to any member switch in the stack to manage all the member switches in the stack.

The S5720-SI is equipped with two removable power supplies that can work in 1+1 redundancy backup mode. Mixed installation of AC and DC power supplies is supported, allowing for flexible configuration of AC or DC power supplies according to service requirements.

In addition to traditional STP, RSTP, and MSTP, the S5720-SI supports Huawei-developed Smart Ethernet Protection (SEP) technology and the latest Ethernet Ring Protection Switching (ERPS) standard. SEP is a ring protection protocol specific to the Ethernet link layer, and applies to various ring network topologies, such as open ring topology, closed ring topology, and cascading ring topology. This protocol is reliable and easy to maintain, and implements fast protection switching within 50 ms. ERPS is defined in ITU-T G.8032. It implements millisecond-level protection switching based on traditional Ethernet MAC and bridging functions.

The S5720-SI supports Smart Link. One S5720-SI switch can connect to multiple aggregation switches through multiple links, implementing backup of uplinks and significantly improving reliability of access devices.

The S5720-SI supports Ethernet OAM (IEEE 802.3ah/802.1ag) to detect link faults quickly

Enhanced QoS Control Mechanism

The S5720-SI provides excellent QoS capabilities and supports queue scheduling and congestion control algorithms. Additionally, it adopts innovative priority queuing and multi-level scheduling mechanisms to implement fine-grained scheduling of data flows, meeting service quality requirements of different user terminals and services.

The S5720-SI implements complex traffic classification based on packet information, such as the 5-tuple, IP preference, ToS, DSCP, IP protocol type, ICMP type, TCP source port, VLAN ID, Ethernet protocol type, and CoS. ACLs can be applied to the inbound or outbound direction of a port.

The S5720-SI supports flow-based two-rate three-color CAR. Each port supports eight priority queues, multiple queue scheduling algorithms, such as WRR, DRR, SP, WRR+SP, and DRR+SP, and WRED that is a congestion avoidance algorithm. All of these features ensure high-quality voice, video, and data services.

Mature IPv6 Technologies

The S5720-SI uses the mature, stable VRP platform and supports IPv4/IPv6 dual stacks, IPv6 RIPng, and IPv6 over IPv4 tunnels (including manual, 6-to-4, and ISATAP tunnels). With these IPv6 features, the S5720-SI can be deployed on a pure IPv4 network, a pure IPv6 network, or a shared IPv4/IPv6 network, helping achieve IPv4-to-IPv6 transition.

Cloud Management

The Huawei cloud management platform allows users to configure, monitor, and inspect switches on the cloud, reducing on-site deployment and O&M manpower costs and decreasing network OPEX. Huawei switches support both cloud management and on-premise management modes. These two management modes can be flexibly switched as required to achieve smooth evolution while maximizing return on investment (ROI).

High-Performance VRP Software System

Huawei S series switches build on a unified Versatile Routing Platform (VRP) software system, meeting the growing network scale and the evolving Internet technologies and guaranteeing network services and network quality.

VRP is a network operating system developed by Huawei with independent intellectual property rights. It can run on multiple hardware platforms and provide unified network, user, and management views. VRP provides flexible application solutions for users. In addition, VRP is a future-proof platform that maximally protects customer investments.

The VRP platform is focused on IP services and uses a component-based architecture to provide more than 300 features. Besides, VRP stands out for its application-based tailorable and scalable capabilities.

OPS

The Open Programmability System (OPS) is an open platform based on the Python language. IT administrators can program the O&M functions of a switch through Python scripts to quickly innovate functions and implement intelligent O&M

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