Software Specifications

The following table includes software specifications for the 8520 Series switches.

Software Specifications Description

Maximum MAC addresses

64,000

Maximum VLANs

4,096

Maximum ACLs (IPv4/IPv6/L2)

2,000

Maximum members in a standard LAG

64

Maximum number of MCT switches

2

Maximum number of Bridge Domains

2,048

Maximum IPv4 unicast routes

128,000

Maximum IPv6 unicast routes

10,000

Maximum IPv4 host routes

47,000

Maximum IPv6 host routes

33,000

Maximum jumbo frame size

9,126 bytes

QoS priority queues (per port)

8

IEEE Compliance

  • IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol
  • IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree
  • IEEE 802.1w Rapid Reconfiguration of Spanning Tree Protocol
  • IEEE 802.3 Ethernet
  • IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation with LACP
  • IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-T
  • IEEE 802.3z 1000BASE-X
  • IEEE 802.3ba / 80 2.3bm 40 GBASE-X and 100 GBASE-X
  • IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Tagging
  • IEEE 802.1p Class of Service Prioritization and Tagging
  • IEEE 802.1v VLAN Classification by Protocol and Port
  • IEEE 802.1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
  • IEEE 802.3x Flow Control (Pause Frames)
  • IEEE 802.3ae 10 GBASE-X
  • IEEE 802.3 10 GBASE-T (up to 100 m using Cat6a cabling or better)