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Overview

The HP 6600 Router Series is a family of high-performance WAN routers, ideal for campus and data center WAN edge and aggregation deployments. These routers are built with a multi-core architecture offering distributed or centralized processing to help balance performance and cost. The HP 6600 series delivers robust routing, security, full Layer 2 switching, and modular high-density WAN and LAN interface options, all integrated in a single high-performance routing platform. In addition, the HP 6600 Router Series features robust carrier-class reliability capabilities to help minimize disruption from network or system failures.

Features


Quality of Service (QoS)
Traffic policing: supports Committed Access Rate (CAR) and line rate
Congestion management: supports FIFO, PQ, CQ, WFQ, CBQ, and RTPQ
Other QoS technologies: support traffic shaping, FR QoS, MPLS QoS, and MP QoS/LFI
Congestion avoidance: weighted random early detection (WRED)/random early detection (RED)

Management
Management interface control: provides management access through modem port and terminal interface, as well as in-band and out-of-band Ethernet ports
Management security: includes multiple administration levels, with password protection and restricted access to critical configuration commands; access control lists (ACLs) provide telnet and SNMP access; local and remote syslog capability allows logging of all access
SNMP v1, v2, and v3: provides complete support of SNMP, as well as full support of industry-standard MIBs and private MIB extensions
Industry-standard CLI with a hierarchical structure: reduces training needs and increases productivity in multivendor installations
Remote monitoring (RMON): uses standard SNMP to monitor essential network functions; supports events, alarm, history, and statistics group plus a private alarm extension group

Connectivity
High port density: provides up to 16 interface module slots, and high-density Ethernet interface cards; a single card can provide up to 48 GbE interfaces; therefore, the routers can fully satisfy the demands of high-density Ethernet (MSTP) link distribution
Multiple WAN interfaces: support Fast Ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet/10GbE ports, OC3~OC48 POS/CPOS, and ATM ports
Flexible port selection: provides a combination of fiber and copper interface modules, 100/1000BASE-X auto speed selection, and 10/100/1000BASE-T auto speed detection plus auto duplex and MDI/MDI-X; speed is adaptable between 155 M POS and 622 M POS

Performance
Industry-leading performance: provides up to 252 Mpps forwarding performance
Flexible chassis selection: consists of 4 models: 16 HIM-slot chassis, 8 HIM-slot chassis, 4 HIM-slot chassis, and 2 HIM-slot chassis
Scalable system design: backplane is designed for smooth bandwidth upgrade

Resiliency and high availability
Separate data and control planes: provide greater flexibility and enable continual services
Hitless software upgrades: allow patches to be installed without restarting the device, increasing network uptime and simplifying maintenance
Redundant design of main processing unit and power supply: increases the overall system availability
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP): enables fast convergence of routes and packet forwarding when links fail, ensuring high network availability
IP Fast Reroute Framework (FRR): nodes are configured with backup ports and routes; local implementation requires no cooperation of adjacent devices, simplifying the deployment; solves the traditional convergence faults in IP forwarding; realizes restoration within 50 ms, with the restoration time independent of the number of routes and fast link switchovers without route convergence

Layer 3 services
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP): determines the MAC address of another IP host in the same subnet; supports static ARPs; gratuitous ARP allows detection of duplicate IP addresses; proxy ARP allows normal ARP operation between subnets or when subnets are separated by a Layer 2 network
User Datagram Protocol (UDP) helper: redirects UDP broadcasts to specific IP subnets to prevent server spoofing
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP): simplifies the management of large IP networks and supports client and server; DHCP Relay enables DHCP operation across subnets
Domain Name System (DNS): provides a distributed database that translates domain names and IP addresses, which simplifies network design; supports client and server

Layer 3 routing
Static IPv4 routing: provides simple, manually configured IPv4 routing
Routing Information Protocol (RIP): uses a distance vector algorithm with UDP packets for route determination; supports RIPv1 and RIPv2 routing; includes loop protection
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF): delivers faster convergence; uses this link-state routing Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) which supports ECMP, NSSA, and MD5 authentication for increased security and graceful restart for faster failure recovery
Intermediate system to intermediate system (IS-IS): uses a path vector Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP), which is defined by the ISO organization for IS-IS routing and extended by IETF RFC 1195 to operate in both TCP/IP and the OSI reference model (Integrated IS-IS)
Static IPv6 routing: provides simple, manually configured IPv6 routing


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