The Cloud Router Switch series are highly integrated switches with high performance ARM CPU and feature-rich packet processor. The CRS switches can be designed into various Ethernet applications including unmanaged switch, Layer 2 managed switch, carrier switch and wired unified packet processing.
Warning: This article applies to CRS3xx series switches and not to CRS1xx/CRS2xx series switches.
Features
Description
Forwarding
Configurable ports for switching or routing
Full non-blocking wirespeed switching
Up to 16k MAC entries in Unicast FDB for Layer 2 unicast forwarding
Up to 1k MAC entries in Multicast FDB for multicast forwarding
Up to 256 MAC entries in Reserved FDB for control and management purposes
All Forwarding Databases support IVL and SVL
Configurable Port based MAC learning limit
Jumbo frame support
Mirroring
Various types of mirroring:
Port based mirroring
VLAN based mirroring
MAC based mirroring
2 independent mirroring analyzer ports
VLAN
Fully compatible with IEEE802.1Q and IEEE802.1ad VLAN
4k active VLANs
Flexible VLAN assignment:
Port based VLAN
VLAN filtering
This table clarifies main differences between Cloud Router Switch models.