V300 Virtual Port Extender

Bridge port extenders (BPEs) are devices that do not fully process packets, nor make forwarding or filtering decisions. Instead, they simply receive packets from extended ports and forward packets toward the upstream controlling bridge (an Switch Engine-based switch) for L2/L3 processing. This scheme, based on the IEEE 802.1BR specification, is known as extended edge switching.

The V300 Virtual Port Extender offers the following models:

• V300-8P-2X Model
• V300-8T-2X Model
• V300-8P-2T-W Model
• V300HT-8P-2X Model
• V300HT-8T-2X Model

In general, the V300 Virtual Port Extender offers the following features:

• Eight 10/100/1000BASE-T half/full duplex ports or 10/100/1000BASE-T half/full duplex PoE+ ports
• Two 10Gb SFP+ uplinks
• PoE+ power on some models
• Fixed internal power-supply (non-PoE models), fanless

For more information about configuring Switch Engine for use with this equipment, see the Switch Engine 32.6.1 User Guide .