COMMANDO Soldier E2000 Series Switches are fully managed, perpetual PoE/PoE+ IEEE 802.3af/at compliant Gigabit Ethernet L2+ switches with network resiliency and high availability, delivering robust performance with intelligent switching, scheduling and distribution of PoE/PoE+ Power as per requirement of PD which make PoE+ available on maximum ports despite lower PoE power budget and perpetual PoE/PoE+ for no power downtime required for growing networks. This series switches are easy to deploy, use, manage and designed exclusively for the networking needs of growing businesses. The security features equipped with today’s advance networking hardware and software technology. This Series switches can be deployed in harsh environments to deliver hassle free mission-critical network services and surveillance requirements. COMMANDO Soldier E2000 Series Switches are fixed configuration, with flexible 1G Fiber and/or 1GE copper fixed uplink that provide enterprise-class access for campus and branch applications. Designed for the digital workplace, these are optimized for today’s mobile and IoT needs. These switches are powerful and flexible enough for users to deploy wireless access points, surveillance cameras, IP phones and other PoE supported devices over longer distances up to 250 meters with power budget up to 450W. It is available in Desktop as well as Rack/Wall mounting casing. These fully managed switches can provide advanced Layer 2 and basic Layer 3 features. It has IEEE 802.3af-compliant PoE (Power over Ethernet) and 802.3at-compliant PoE+ (Power over Ethernet plus) along with high availability to the PD devices by powering them even when a software process is not running on the switch. Each switchport is capable to deliver 15.4W PoE or 30W PoE+ power on all ports along with automated power (ON/OFF) scheduling. All Switches are PoE/PoE+ capable to provide power across all access ports for wireless APs, security cameras, and other IoT devices. Designed for operational simplicity to lower total cost of ownership, they enable scalable, secure, and energy-efficient business operations with intelligent and automated services. It provides a convenient and cost-efficient wired access rack and wall mountable solution that can be quickly set up with Zero Touch Provisioning. These switches deliver enhanced application, visibility, network reliability, network resiliency and high availability. This series also offers robust QoS to optimize traffic on your business network, these switches provide (Port-based/802.1p/DSCP) QoS to keep latency-sensitive video and voice traffic jitter-free moving smoothly. Additionally, Port-based, Tag-based VLAN, Voice VLANs, Surveillance VLAN can improve QoS and enhance security to meet network requirements. This series switches also have provisioning of QoS, Static routing, IPV6 features, multicasting, and Security. Moreover, with its innovative energy-efficient technology, can save up to 58% of power consumption, making it an Eco-friendly perfect solution for your business network.

Product Highlights

COMMANDO Soldier E2000 Series Switches contain 8 & 24 Gigabit Ethernet Perpetual PoE/PoE+ models as well as non-PoE models along with 1GE Copper-based or 1G Fiber Ports (SFP) Uplinks. . All switches COMMANDO Soldier E2000 Series Switches contains 8 & 24 Gigabit Ethernet PoE/PoE+ models have up to 30W (PoE/PoE+) Per Port power budget and this series switches have total power budget range from 150W and 450W to meet enhance PoE/PoE+ requirement of IP Phone/AP/LWAP/Wi-Fi Access Point and any other PoE (PoE+) enabled devices with non-stop PoE/PoE+ power and intelligent power distribution make it suitable for more number of PoE device attached simultaneously as compared top brand PoE switches with same power budget. This series offers various layer 2 Ethernet functions (VLAN, QoS, MAC ACL, Port Security, IPv6, LACP, port mirroring, GVRP and many more). These Gigabit Ethernet switch enables home and office users to easily connect and supply power to Power over Ethernet (PoE) devices such as wireless access points (APs), IP cameras, and IP phones. It also provides the opportunity to add additional Ethernet devices like computers, printers, and Network Attached Storage (NAS) onto a network. This compact PoE switch operates quietly, making it ideal for use in rack, virtually any room or office.

L3 Highlights

L2+/L2 Highlights

Other Highlights

Features And Benefits

DHCP Server

Multiple IPv4 DHCP pools with Inbuild DHCP server can be set. DHCP pools and interface for individual VLANs. It also supports IPv4/ IPv6 DHCP Client, IPv4/ IPv6 DHCP Relay Option 82, IPv4/ IPv6 DHCP Snooping.

Intelligent PoE/ PoE+ with Automated Scheduling

It automates the PoE/PoE+ requirements in networks on per port basis. Advanced per port PoE/PoE+ controls for power management to automate ON/OFF of PoE/PoE+ capable devices on particular specified timing per port basis with auto ON/OFF PoE/PoE+ as per Scheduled time which makes them intelligent. PoE/PoE+ power supply transmission is more reliable as well as allows more PDs can be connected with lower PoE budget switch due to design of robust network transformer which uses high current.

Perpetual POE/PoE+

With Perpetual PoE/PoE+, no power downtime to connected PD devices. PD devices remains power ON even when any software process is not running on the switch. Provides non-stop PoE/PoE+ power and continue to provide power during configuration and reboot, the PDs will not lose power while reloading. The Perpetual POE provides uninterrupted power to connected powered device (PD) even when the switch is booting to make it highly available network without any interruptions.

Dual Image

It can be configured with one image is set as start-up image, and the other is set as the backup image. After you upgrade a firmware, the switch will automatically map the firmware file to the backup image.

Watchdog Function

This ensures high availability which is used to protect a system from specific software or hardware failures that may cause the system to stop responding and self-recover from hanged state.

L3 Features

This series is having L3 features with IPv4/IPv6 with 512 static routing entries, QoS, ACLs (Port based / IP based / MAC Based), DHCP Server and Client, DHCP Snooping, DHCP Snooping option82, DHCP Relay.

L2+/L2 Features

This series is having advance L2+/L2 features like Port aggregation up to 8 ports, VLAN, Voice VLAN, GVRP, 802.1X authentication, centralized MAC authentication, Guest VLAN, RADIUS authentication, SSH 2.0, Port isolation, Port security, MAC address learning limit, IP Source guard, Dynamic ARP inspection, Preventing man-in-the-middle attacks and ARP DoS attacks, IP/Port/MAC binding. Flexible Software features provides wide range of Layer 2 functions like VLAN, Multicasting, Quality of Service (QoS), Security.

Secure Networking

IEEE 802.1X port-based access control with surveillance VLAN, Port Security, Protected Port which also Prevent ARP Spoofing. L4/L3/L2 access control lists (ACLs) for granular network access control including 802.1x port authentication. ACL, L4 to L2 feature restricts access to sensitive network resources. DHCP Snooping ensures IP address allocation integrity by only allowing DHCP messages from trusted DHCP servers and dropping malformed DHCP messages with a port or MAC address mismatch. With DHCP Snooping binding and option82 enabled, it can combine dot1x and ARP. IP-MAC-Port-VID Binding, Port Security, Storm control which protect against broadcast storms. The switches support ARP attack and DoS attack prevention to safeguard the network.

Multicast

IGMP Snooping (v1, v2, v3), Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) (v1/v2), Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR) designed for distribution of multicast traffic across segregated access networks which enables more efficient distribution of multicast streams in Layer 2 network.

QoS Features

Advanced QoS (Quality of Service) for traffic prioritization including port based, 802.1p and L4/L3/L2 DSCP based. L4/L3/L2 QoS optimize voice and video applications. Access Control List based, VLAN ID based IP precedence, COS and DSCP. Policy Based on Port & VLAN, Remark DSCP, COS/ 802.1p, Precedence, COS for SP, WRR for Scheduling and matching the IP fragmentation of message.

Easy Management with CLI

With familiar and popular Command Line interface (CLI), there is no need for engineers to be hired or additional resources to be spent on training and/or learning the switch CLI. The command set are familiar and well known in the industry. Web Graphical User Interface (Web GUI), Command Line interface (CLI), RADIUS/TACACS+ with industry standard CLI and easy to use Web GUI. Management is made easy via a Web GUI or industry-standard Command Line Interface (CLI), with administration traffic protected via SSL or SSH encryption. SNMP (v1/v2c/v3) and RMON support enables the switch to be polled for valuable status information and allows it to send traps when abnormal events occur.

Easy to Use

It easy to use and manage and Plug-and-Play that requires no configuration, so setup is simple and hassle-free. Auto MDI/MDI-X crossover on all ports eliminate the need for crossover cables or uplink ports. The switches range from 8 to 24 Gigabit Ethernet PoE/PoE+ models as well as non-PoE models along with 1G/1GE fixed uplinks. It contains 8 to 24 Gigabit Ethernet PoE/PoE+ models has up to 30W (PoE/PoE+) Per Port power budget and this series switches has total power budget range from 150W & 450W along with intelligent and perpetual PoE/PoE+ to meet needs. Its compact size makes it ideal for rackmount/wall-mount with limited space. Dynamic LED lights provide real-time work status display and basic fault diagnosis.

Lifetime Free Software Licensing and Upgrades

SoldierOS Software license and Upgrades are free for lifetime. Users do not have to worry about switch license expiring and software getting outdated (which is constant concern and worry of few other brands). This series has improved HTTP base firmware upgrade as well as CLI based upgrades which are freely available to all users without any cost or license fee for lifetime. COMMANDO Soldier E2000 Series Switches are easy to install, configure, monitor, and troubleshoot. It significantly reduces cost of administration and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

Auto MDIX Capabilities

Auto sensing/Auto PoE/PoE+ 10/100/1000 ports with auto MDIX capabilities which also removes speed and duplex mismatches automatically as well as speed setting as per physical distance with copper pairs compared to other brands best switches.

Flexible Service Control

With various ACLs to flexibly control ports. It also supports Port-based VLAN assignment, MAC address-based VLAN assignment, Protocol-based VLAN assignment, and Network segment-based VLAN assignment. These secure and flexible VLAN assignment modes are used in networks where users move frequently. It also supports GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP), which dynamically distributes, registers, and propagates VLAN attributes to ensure correct VLAN configuration and reduce network administrator workloads. This series switches supports SSH v1/v2/v3, RMON, port-based traffic statistics, LLDP/LLDP-MED.

Compact Design with Flexibility of additional ports

The switches provide additional deployment flexibility, fiber connectivity as well as combo options for easy expansion of your networks. So, you can directly connect to a high-performance storage server or deploy a long-distance uplink to another switch.

Perfect for Noise-Sensitive Environments

These are the ideal solution for the most advanced small and medium organizations looking for the best combination of features, performance, and value. These switches are purposely designed for converged networks where voice, video, data are all carried on a single network platform. This series comes with fan/fan-less switches models along with Small form-factor, fan/fan-less design for silent operation. Perfect for noise sensitive environments. Fan based Switches have Temperature- and load-based fan-speed control combines accurate monitoring with minimized system acoustic noise. The Fan based switches also feature built-in smart fans that monitor and detect temperature changes, adjusting the fan speed for maximum efficiency. At lower temperatures, the fans run at a lower speed, reducing both the power consumption and noise output of the switch.

Zero Maintenance

Cost efficient switches, with a reasonable PoE/PoE+ power budget up to 450W along with PoE/PoE+ configurable scheduler to automated Power ON/OFF connected PoE/PoE+ devices as per scheduled timing with Cost of ownership is less compared to other products of same features as well as zero maintenance. Maximum power reduction for ongoing operation cost savings.

Easy Debugging and Troubleshooting

Ping, Traceroute, SNMP, RMON, Web based real time switch ports monitoring with WEBUI and CLI can easily troubleshoot any problem in network with various show and debug commands.

Longer Distance Coverage

State of art quality switches that can serve real time high-speed performance which covers longer physical distance up to 250 meters with copper pairs compared to other brands.

Software

The COMMANDO SoldierOS IP Base switches provides advanced L2 switching and security features along with ACLs (MAC/IP/Port) based IPV4 and IPV6, L4/L3/L2 QoS , Static Routing up to 512 static route entries, Spanning Tree Protocol (IEEE802.1D STP , IEEE802.1w RSTP, IEEE802.1s MSTP) SNMP v1/v2c/v3, IGMP and MLD snooping, QinQ and selective QinQ, VLAN mapping, Voice VLAN, GVRP, Advanced multicast filtering, and IGMP snooping that optimize voice and video applications, DHCP Server, DHCP Client, DHCP Snooping, DHCP Snooping option82, DHCP Relay, RADIUS/TACACS+ authentication, SSH 2.0, Port isolation, Port security, MAC address learning limit, IP Source guard, Dynamic ARP inspection, preventing man-in-the-middle attacks and ARP DoS attacks, IP/Port/MAC binding. Management is made easy via a web-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) access via HTTP/HTTPS or industry-standard Command Line Interface (CLI) via Console/Telnet with administration traffic protected via SSL or SSH encryption. This CLI is well known and understood by all professionals in networking field. SNMP (v1/v2c/v3) and RMON support enables the switch to be polled for valuable status information and allows it to send traps when abnormal events occur. It provides a complete set of security features including L4/L3/L2 multi-layer Access Control Lists and 802.1x user authentication via TACACS+ and RADIUS servers. This ensures the network is protected from unauthorized access. It also offers extensive VLAN support including GVRP and 802.1Q VLAN to enhance security and performance. A robust set of L4/L3/L2 based QoS/CoS solutions help ensure that critical network services such as VoIP and video conferencing are served with priority. Bandwidth Control can be flexibly set for each port using predefined thresholds to assure a committed level of service for end users. For advanced applications, flow-based bandwidth control allows easy fine-tuning of service types based on specific IPV4/IPV6 addresses or protocols that provides Security, Performance & Availability. Access control lists (ACLs) perform operation of filtering (IPv4/IPv6) Packet/MAC/port-based filtering to control the movement of segments/packets/frames through a network. ACL filtering provides security by limiting the access of traffic into a network, restricting user and device access to a network, and preventing traffic from leaving a network. Time range-based ACL, VLAN-based ACL, Bidirectional ACL. Packet filtering at Layer 4 through layer 2 Traffic classification based on source IPv4/IPv6 addresses and source MAC addresses, destination MAC addresses. L4/L3/L2 Quality of service (QoS) refers to any technology that manages data traffic to reduce packet loss, latency, and jitter on the network. QoS controls and manages network resources by setting priorities for specific types of data on the network. Static routing is a form of routing that occurs when these switches uses a manually configured 512 IPV4 static routing entries. Static routing has three primary uses: It provides GUI based PoE/PoE+ scheduling Premium feature. PoE/PoE+ Scheduling is a feature which allows you to specify the amount of time that power is delivered to a PoE/PoE+ port automatically. This can be used to save power when devices are not in use, or as a security feature to prevent wireless access from being available outside of business hours. It is possible to set a schedule PoE/PoE+ at a start time, an end time and which ports the PoE/PoE+ schedule applies to. The PoE/PoE+ device turn ON and OFF as per the PoE/PoE+ schedule time.

Software Highlights:

Layer 3 Switching

Advanced L2/L2+ Switching

Secure Networking

Multicast

QoS features

User friendly Maintenance Management

Debugging and troubleshooting feature

Software Licensing and Upgrades

Table 1. COMMANDO SoldierOS IP Base Software at a Glance

Table 2. Performance of COMMANDO SoldierOS IP Base

Software Features

1. L3 Features

2. L2 Switching Features

Basic L2 Switching Features

Link Aggregation

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)

Multicast

Unknown IGMP Throttling, IGMP Filtering, Static Multicast IP

VLAN

Quality of Service (QoS)

Advanced Security

802.1x authentication

Access Control List (ACL)

Management

3. Ethernet Protocols

4. MIBs

Table 3. Key software function of COMMANDO SoldierOS IP Base

Convergence Time

By default, RSTP used for all COMMANDO SoldierOS and it takes less than 10 seconds for the network to converge. RSTP converges faster because it uses a handshake mechanism based on point-to-point links instead of the timer-based process used by STP. IP multicast snooping and IGMP automatically prevent flooding of IP multicast traffic. IEEE 802.1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) facilitates easy mapping using network management applications with LLDP automated device discovery protocol LLDP-MED (Media Endpoint Discovery) defines a standard extension of LLDP that stores values for parameters such as QoS and VLAN to configure automatically network devices such as IP phones. STP/RSTP/MSTP for loop free network, IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree provides high link availability by allowing multiple spanning trees; provides legacy support for IEEE 802.1d and IEEE 802.1w IEEE 802.3ad Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LACP) and port trunking support up to 8 static, dynamic, or distributed trunks with each trunk having up to eight links (ports) per static trunk. Lag links provides easy-to-configure link redundancy of active and standby links.

Security

The AAA feature allows you to verify the identity of, grant access to, and track the actions of users. The COMMANDO Soldier E2000 Series Switches support Remote Access Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) or Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System Plus (TACACS+) protocols. Based on the user ID and password combination that you provide, the COMMANDO Soldier E2000 Series Switches perform local authentication or authorization using the local database or remote authentication or authorization using one or more AAA servers. A pre-shared secret key provides security for communication between the COMMANDO Soldier E2000 Series Switches and AAA servers. You can configure a common secret key for all AAA servers or for only a specific AAA server. COMMANDO Soldier E2000 Series Switches Multiple user authentication methods

Effective Management

COMMANDO SoldierOS offers Network Monitoring for users to observe traffic behavior with Port Mirroring, Loop Prevention and DHCP snooping features, can identify and even locate connection problems on your business network.

Table 4. COMMANDO Soldier E2000 Series Switches PoE+ Power Budget and slots

PoE/PoE+ Flexibility

The COMMANDO Soldier E2000 Series Switches models are available with 8, 24 and 48 PoE/PoE+ Gigabit Ethernet ports of perpetual and auto-sensing IEEE 802.3af/at. By default, the switches automatically detect IEEE 802.3af/at devices so they automatically receive PoE/PoE+ power.

Table 5. COMMANDO Soldier E2000 Series Switches LED Indication

Power Budget According to Cable Length

Ideally, shorter cables would use less power because of less power degradation over their length This is not the case with most devices as they will use the same amount of power across the cable regardless of whether it is 10 or 100 meters in length. These switches analyze the length of the Ethernet cable connected and adjusts the power usage accordingly, rather than keeping the power consumption in a conventional solution.

Table 6. COMMANDO Soldier E2000 Series Switches Cable Lengths

Hardware

COMMANDO Soldier E2000 Series Switches has 4.1 Mbit SRAM Packet Buffer memory with Packet length of 10K bytes . L2 MAC Function with 8K entries for MAC address learning with the 4-way hash L2 table and searching with two hash algorithms. Independent 512 entry L2/IP Multicast table for multicast function, 2-hash algorithm selection for L2 table searching/learning. Aging timer ranges from 0.2s to 1600000s. It has a 4K-entry VLAN table and provides a 64-entry filtering database for 802.1Q port-based, protocol- and-port-based, 802.1Q-based, IP-subnet-based, and ACL Rules-based VLAN operation to separate logical connectivity from physical connectivity with IVL (Independent VLAN Learning), SVL (Shared VLAN Learning), and IVL/SVL (both Independent and Shared VLAN Learning) for flexible network topology architecture. The mode used depends on the FID (Filtering Identifier) setting. It also has a 1.5K Access Control List (ACL) that parses various protocol packet types and performs configurable actions, e.g., Permit/Drop, redirect, and traffic policing. It has per-port ingress/egress bandwidth control and per- queue egress bandwidth control. It has 8 physical queues in each port. It also has three types of packet scheduling, SP (Strict Priority), WFQ (Weighted Fair Queuing), and WRR (Weighted Round Robin). Each queue provides a leaky bucket (LB) to shape the incoming traffic into the average rate behavior. Port-based 802.1X and MAC-based 802.1X authentication prevent unauthorized users. It also has port isolation to enhance port security. It has 4-set port mirror configuration to mirror ingress and egress traffic for network management purposes, complete MIB counter support reflects the switch status in real time. Link aggregation static and dynamic to increase link redundancy and increase linear bandwidth. It supports VLAN Function with IVL, SVL, and IVL/SVL, IEEE 802.1Q VLAN with 4K-entry VLAN Table, Port-based VLAN, Port-and-protocol-based VLAN, ACL-based VLAN. Limited learned L2 MAC entry on each port and each VLAN. Supports flexible Q-in-Q and VLAN Tag function. It supports up to 64 spanning tree instances for MSTP (IEEE 802.1s), RSTP, and STP with Automatic loop detection and isolation (RLPP/RLDP). L3 Unicast Routing with 512 next hop MAC. IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE). IGMPv1/2/3 and MLDv1/2 snooping. It also Supports Reserved Multicast Addresses processing and L2 Miscellaneous Functions like Supports broadcast, multicast, unknown- multicast, and unknown-unicast packet suppression control, IEEE 802.1x, Port Mirroring with 4-sets of port mirrors, Flow-based mirror function, RSPAN function for remote mirroring. It supports Link Aggregation (IEEE 802.3ad) for 8 groups of link aggregators with up to 8 ports per-group, Port isolation function to enhance port security. It also has Attack Prevention, Land attack, Blat attack, TCP control flag attack, Ping attack, Packet length attack. It supports Access Control List (ACL) Function with 1.5K-entry for ingress and egress ACL table and L4/L3/L2 format (e.g., DMAC, SMAC, and Ether-Type), IPv6 Parsing and Per-flow traffic policing with 16-entry VID range checking. It also supports 8-entry IPv4 or 2-entry IPv6 range checking. 256 leaky buckets for flow traffic policing. It supports QoS Functions with 8 physical queues per port, Strict Priority (SP) and Weighted Fair Queue (WFQ), Weighted Round Robin (WRR) packet scheduling, QoS remarking for 802.1p and DSCP (includes IPv4/IPv6) also Supports average packet rate control leaky bucket per queue, in 16Kbps steps up to 1Gbps maximum. Ingress port bandwidth control, in 16Kbps steps up to 1Gbps maximum. Egress port bandwidth control, in 16Kbps steps up to 1Gbps maximum. It supports MIB Functions with 256 32-bit packet-based or 1K 64-bit byte-based log counters to enhance MIB counter log counters to enhance MIB count functionality. It also supports Ethernet-like MIB (RFC 3635), Interface Group MIB (RFC 2863), RMON (RFC 2819), Bridge MIB (RFC 1493), Bridge MIB Extension (RFC 2674). It has Hardware watchdog support which guard against certain types of system hangs. Watchdog timer is used to escape from if something goes wrong. Based on the situation, the Switches can automatically reset itself, or recover from the failure and generate an error message in the console logs. Long life electrolytic capacitance. High Quality PCB Circuit Board and PCB Surface Treatment Using Gold Sinking Process. Rack mount design, Mounts in an EIA-standard 19-inch telco rack or equipment cabinet (Rack-mounting kit available); horizontal surface mounting; wall mounting with durable robust metal body. Bilateral heat dissipation. Power and ports status/ activity indicator LED lights. RJ45 Gold plated with 3U thickness. It also supports has IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) for 100Base-TX in full duplex operation and supports 10Base-Te for 10Base-T in full/half duplex. The Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) operational mode combines the IEEE 802.3 Media Access Control (MAC) Sub-layer with a family of Physical Layers defined to support operation in Low Power Idle (LPI) Mode. When Low Power Idle Mode is enabled, systems on both sides of the link can disable portions of the functionality and save power during periods of low link utilization. 10Mbps PHY with reduced transmit amplitude requirements in EEE operational mode. This new PHY is fully interoperable with legacy 10Base-T PHYs over 100m of Class-D (Category 5) or better cabling.

Hardware Highlights

Solid performance with non-blocking architecture

Physical Ports and Networking Interfaces

IEEE 802.3af/at Compliant Power over Ethernet

Extra Long operational life

Green Energy and Silent operation

Ethernet Protocols

Highly reliable and Enterprise design