The HP E2910-48G al switch has four dual-personality ports for 10/100/1000 or mini-GBIC connectivity. In addition, the E2910 al Switch series supports up to four optional 10-Gigabit (CX4 and/or SFP+) ports, thereby offering the most flexible and easy-to-deploy uplinks in its class. Together with static and RIP IPv4 routing, robust security and management, enterprise-class features, the 2910 series is a cost-effective, scalable solution for customers who are building high-performance networks. These switches can be deployed at enterprise edge and remote branch offices, converged networks, and data center top of rack.

Performance
• High-performance architecture: 128 Gbps switching fabric with up to 95 million pps (24-port switches) and 176 Gbps switching fabric with up to 131 million pps (48-port switches).

Resiliency and high availability
• IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree: provides high link availability in multiple VLAN environments by allowing multiple spanning trees; provides legacy support for IEEE 802.1d and IEEE 802.1w.

Connectivity
• 10 Gbps Ethernet connectivity: Up to four optional and flexible 10-Gigabit ports (CX4 and/or SFP+)--with optional interconnect kit for short-distance connectivity.

Layer 2 switching
• VLAN support and tagging: supports the IEEE 802.1Q (4,094 VLAN IDs) and 256 VLANs simultaneously.

Layer 3 routing
• Static IP routing: provides manually configured routing; includes ECMP capability.

Quality of Service
• Traffic prioritization (IEEE 802.1p): allows real-time traffic classification into eight priority levels mapped to eight queues.

Security
• Multiple user authentication methods: IEEE 802.1X: industry-standard method of user authentication using an IEEE 802.1X supplicant on the client in conjunction with a RADIUS server; Web-based authentication: similar to IEEE 802.1X, provides a browser-based environment to authenticate clients that do not support the IEEE 802.1X supplicant.