TECHNOLOGY

Ethernet

Gigabit Ethernet Interfaces

While the physical Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) ports always support a bandwidth of 1 Gbps, the guaranteed bandwidth supported within the HSX 6000 for each GigE port is configurable on a per port basis in increments of 10 Mbps. GigE ports are enhanced to support threshold crossing alarms (TCA), to monitor the statistics counters as part of the remote monitoring (RMON) feature. The RMON feature is for viewing GigE statistics through CLI. Each of the 10 ports on a GigE card are configured to retrieve the supported stat types. Alarm intervals and threshold values are user configurable for each port.