Abstract

H3C commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate a wide array of features, as well as the performance, of the H3C S5500-SI series switches. The H3C S5500-SI switch series fulfills requirements for next-generation enterprise small- to medium-size networks and networks supporting converged voice, data and video.

The H3C S5500-SI series has four models, each of which offers four 10GbE uplink ports and offers IPv6 forwarding.

Tolly Group engineers awarded 72 Tolly Verified (TV) certifications for Layer 2/3 functions, network protocols, security features, Quality of Service (QoS), system management, and multicasting, among other features.

Tests show the H3C S5500-SI series delivered wire-speed throughput with zero-loss in Layer 2 GbE bidirectional full-mesh configurations. Even with 10 GbE connections, the H3C S5500-SI series maintained wire-speed with zero frame loss. Testing was performed in October 2006.