- 24 10GBASE-SR/LR SFP+ ports, compatible with 1000BASE-SX/LX/BX SFP
- 2 QSFP+ slots with each supporting native 40G and four 10 Gigabit Ethernet modes.
- 1 10/100/1000BASE-T RJ45 in-band management port
- 1 USB2.0 interface for configuration and firmware storage
- RJ45 console interface for switch basic management and setup
- Hardware Stacking
- Virtualized multiple XGS-5240-24X2QR switches into one logical device
- Connects with stack member via assigned 10G SFP+ interfaces or 40G QSFP+ interfaces
- Single IP address stack management, supporting up to 4 switches stacked together
- Stacking architecture supports redundancy Ring mode
- IP Stacking
- Connects with stack member via both SFP+ and QSFP+ interfaces
- Single IP address management, supporting up to 24 units stacked together
- IP routing protocol supports
- Routing interface provides per VLAN routing mode
- Supports route redistribution
- Prevents packet loss flow control
- IEEE 802.3x pause frame flow control in full-duplex mode
- Back-pressure flow control in half-duplex mode
- High performance Store-and-Forward architecture, broadcast storm control and port loopback detection
- 32K MAC address table, automatic source address learning and aging
- Supports VLAN
- IEEE 802.1Q tag-based VLAN
- GVRP for dynamic VLAN management
- Up to 256 VLANs groups, out of 4041 VLAN IDs
- Provider Bridging (VLAN Q-in-Q, IEEE 802.1ad) supported
- Private VLAN Edge (PVE) supported
- GVRP protocol for Management VLAN
- Protocol-based VLAN
- MAC-based VLAN
- IP subnet VLAN
- Supports Link Aggregation
- Maximum 12 trunk groups, up to 8 ports per trunk group
- IEEE 802.3ad LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol)
- Cisco ether-channel (static trunk)
- Supports Spanning Tree Protocol
- STP, IEEE 802.1D (Classic Spanning Tree Protocol)
- RSTP, IEEE 802.1w (Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol)
- MSTP, IEEE 802.1s (Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol, spanning tree by VLAN)
- Supports BPDU and root guard
- Port mirroring to monitor the incoming or outgoing traffic on a particular port (many to many)
- Provides port mirror (many-to-1)
- 8 priority queues on all switch ports
- Support for strict priority and WRR (Weighted Round Robin) CoS policies
- Traffic classification
- IEEE 802.1p CoS/ToS
- IPv4/IPv6 DSCP
- Port-based WRR
- Strict priority and WRR CoS policies
- Supports IPv4 IGMP snooping v1, v2 and v3
- Supports IPv6 MLD v1 and v2 snooping
- Querier mode support
- Supports Multicast VLAN Register (MVR)
- IEEE 802.1x port-based network access authentication
- MAC-based network access authentication
- Built-in RADIUS client to cooperate with the RADIUS servers for IPv4 and IPv6
- TACACS+ login users access authentication
- IP-based Access Control List (ACL)
- MAC-based Access Control List
- Supports DHCP snooping
- Supports ARP inspection
- IP Source Guard prevents IP spoofing attacks
- Dynamic ARP Inspection discards ARP packets with invalid MAC address to IP address binding
- Management IP for IPv4 and IPv6
- Switch Management Interface
- Console/Telnet Command Line Interface
- Web switch management
- SNMP v1, v2c, and v3 switch management
- SSH/SSL secure access
- BOOTP and DHCP for IP address assignment
- Firmware upload/download via TFTP or HTTP Protocol for IPv4 and IPv6
- SNTP (Simple Network Time Protocol) for IPv4 and IPv6
- User privilege levels control
- Syslog server for IPv4 and IPv6
- Supports DDM
- OAM EFM; OAM CFM
- Four RMON groups 1, 2, 3, 9 (history, statistics, alarms and events)
- Supports sFlow
- Supports ULDP
- Supports ULPP (Uplink Protection Protocol)
- Supports ULSM (Uplink State Monitor Protocol)
- Supports LLDP/LLDP MED
- Supports DHCP Option82
- IPv4/IPv6 DHCP Client
- IPv4/IPv6 DHCP Relay
- IPv4/IPv6 DHCP Snooping
- IPv4/IPv6 DHCP Server
- Supports ping, trace route function for IPv4 and IPv6
- Redundant 100~240V AC/36-72V DC dual power
- Active-active redundant power failure protection
- Backup of catastrophic power failure on one supply
- Fault tolerance and resilience