3Com® Switch 40x0 Family
Enterprise-Class Core Switching

The 3Com® Switch 40x0 Family of switches are high-performance, wire-speed, Layer 3 10/100/1000 switches, with dual redundant "hot swappable" power supplies and fans. These 24-port switches are optimized for building aggregation, with flexibility and expansion provided through SFP (Small Form Factor Plug-in) or GBIC transceivers. All of these switches optionally support 3Com's XRN™ technology - a unique core solution delivering distributed resilience.

• 3Com® Switch 4070
  Offers a twenty-four port configuration to populate with 1000BASE-SX and 1000BASE-LX SFPs, delivering the ultimate flexibility, enabling mixing and matching media and port-count to meet the network needs. Optional XRN technology support.
• 3Com® Switch 4060
  Offers a twenty-four port configuration with 12 1000BASE-SX ports, 6 GBIC ports, and 6 integrated 10/100/1000 ports, delivering media flexibility and optional XRN technology support.
• 3Com® Switch 4050
  Offers a twenty-four port configuration with 6 1000BASE-SX ports, 6 GBIC ports, and 12 integrated 10/100/1000 ports, delivering media flexibility and optional XRN technology support.

Features & Benefits

• 3Com XRN™ (eXpandable Resilient Networking) technology allows implementation of high availability configurations using two interconnected Switch 4050s, Switch 4060s, or Switch 4070s, scaling the backbone to 48 wirespeed Gigabit Layer 3 switching ports (with purchase of optional 3Com XRN Interconnect Kit, available now, or future GBIC Fabric Interconnect)
• Advanced Layer 2 and Layer 3 functionality—such as multicast filtering, enhanced QoS/CoS services, virtual LANs, and multilayer traffic classification and prioritization—provides network-wide traffic control
• 3Com-developed ASIC architecture delivers 56 Gbps multilayer switching capacity per unit, wire-speed performance across all ports, and a forwarding rate of more than 41 million pps
• Layer 3 switching capabilities—such as IP unicast using static routes, RIP/RIPv2, and CIDR—help enhance performance,provide network control and security, and enable routing between VLANs
• Support for high availability software features such as Link Aggregation using 802.3ad, Resilient links, Spanning Tree and Rapid Spanning Tree (802.1w), seven groups of RMON, and e-mail alerts
• Security features like 802.1X RADIUS client support and Routed Access Control lists protect sensitive network information and ensure that users have access to authorized resources
• High density fiber connectivity by populating the Switch 4070 with 1000BASE-SX and 1000BASE-LX SFP transceivers
• Optional 1000BASE-SX, 1000BASE-T, 1000BASE-LX and GBIC-based expansion modules deliver four ports of high-performance, feature-rich switching over copper or multimode fiber
• 3Com® Network Supervisor, (60-day trial version included with the switch), offers discovery, mapping, monitoring, and alerting for easy network administration

Additional Information

     3Com Switch 40x0 Family Data Sheet (PDF 296KB)