New Hardware

5320 Series

The ExtremeSwitching 5320 Series is a family of feature-rich edge switches. The 5320 Series universal hardware provides end-to-end secure network segmentation, in addition to advanced policy capabilities, and offers a user-selectable choice of Fabric Engine and Switch Engine network operating system (NOS) personalities.

Fabric Engine 8.6 supports the following new switching models:

A future release will add support for the following two models, which are included in the current documentation:

In addition to the fixed ports, all models provide console interface ports (one micro Type B USB and one RJ-45) and one Type A USB port for removable storage.

The 5320 Series family of switches have either 4 or 8 SFP+ ports:

For optics compatibility, see the Extreme Optics website.

For 10G operation, you must install a port license.

For information about feature support, see Fabric Engine Feature Support Matrix and Fabric Engine User Guide.

New Transceivers and Components

Extreme Networks might announce support for additional optical components in the future. For a complete and current list of supported optical components, see the Extreme Optics website.

100 Mb on 5520-24X

This release introduces 100 Mb support on 5520-24X switches.