HP MSR20 Series
Modular Ethernet Router

Features & Benefits:

Quality of Service (QoS)

• Traffic Policing - Supports Committed Access Rate (CAR) and line rate
• Congestion management - Supports FIFO, PQ, CQ, WFQ, CBQ, and RTPQ
• Weighted random early detection (WRED)/random early detection (RED) - Delivers congestion avoidance capabilities using queue management algorithms
• Other QoS technologies - Support traffic shaping, FR QoS, MPLS QoS, and MP QoS/LFI

Management

• Industry-standard CLI with a hierarchical structure - Reduces training time and expenses, and increases productivity in multivendor installations
• Management security - Restricts access to critical configuration commands; offers multiple privilege levels with password protection; ACLs provide telnet and SNMP access; local and remote syslog capabilities allow logging of all access
• SNMPv1, v2, and v3 - Provide complete support of SNMP; provide full support of industry-standard management information base (MIB) plus private extensions; SNMPv3 supports increased security using encryption
• Remote monitoring (RMON) - Uses standard SNMP to monitor essential network functions; supports events, alarm, history, and statistics group plus a private alarm extension group/li>
• FTP, TFTP, and SFTP support - Offer different mechanisms for configuration updates; FTP allows bidirectional transfers over a TCP/IP network; trivial FTP (TFTP) is a simpler method using User Datagram Protocol (UDP); Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) runs over an SSH tunnel to provide additional security
• Debug and sampler utility - Supports ping and traceroute for both IPv4 and IPv6
• Network Time Protocol (NTP)Synchronizes timekeeping among distributed time servers and clients; keeps timekeeping consistent among all clock-dependent devices within the network so that the devices can provide diverse applications based on the consistent time
• Information center - Provides a central repository for system and network information; aggregates all logs, traps, and debugging information generated by the system and maintains them in order of severity; outputs the network information to multiple channels based on user-defined rules
• Management interface control - Provides management access through modem port and terminal interface; provides access through terminal interface, telnet, or SSH
• Network Quality Analyzer (NQA) - Analyzes network performance and service quality by sending test packets, and provides network performance and service quality parameters such as jitter, TCP, or FTP connection delays; allows network manager to determine overall network performance, and diagnose and locate network congestion points or failures

Connectivity

• High-density port connectivity - Includes one interface module slot and up to 10 Fast Ethernet ports
• Multiple WAN and LAN interfaces - Provide a traditional link with E3, T3, E1, T1, ADSL, ADSL2, ADSL2+, G.SHDSL, OC-3, POS, ATM, and ISDN/AM backup; deliver high-density Ethernet access with WAN Fast Ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet, LAN Fast Ethernet, and PoE; offer mobility access with IEEE 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and 3G and 4G wireless
• Packet storm protection - Protects against broadcast, multicast, or unicast storms with user-defined thresholds
• Loopback - Supports internal loopback testing for maintenance purposes and an increase in availability; loopback detection protects against incorrect cabling or network configurations and can be enabled on a per-port or per-VLAN basis for added flexibility
• 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
• 3G access support - Provides 3G wireless access for primary or backup connectivity via a 3G SIC module certified on various cellular networks; optional carrier 3G USB modems available

Performance

• Powerful encryption capacity - Includes embedded hardware encryption accelerator to improve encryption performance
• Flexible chassis selection - Offers a choice of more than five routers, meeting different requirements on enterprise branches
• Excellent forwarding performance - Provides forwarding performance from 220 Kpps to 360 Kpps; meets current and future bandwidth-intensive application demands of enterprise businesses

Resiliency and high availability

• Backup center - Acts as a part of the management and backup function to provide backup for device interfaces; delivers reliability by switching traffic over to a backup interface when the primary one fails
• Virtual Router Redundacy Protocol (VRRP) - Allows groups of two routers to back each other up dynamically to create highly available routed environments; supports VRRP load balancing

Layer 2 switching

• Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) - Supports standard IEEE 802.1D STP, IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) for faster convergence, and IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)
• Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) protocol snooping - Control and manage the flooding of multicast packets in a Layer 2 network
• Port mirroring - Duplicates port traffic (ingress and egress) to a local or remote monitoring port
• VLANs - Support up to 4,094 port or IEEE 802.1Q-based VLANs
• sFlow - Allows traffic sampling

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

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
• Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) - Delivers an implementation of the Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP) utilizing path vectors; uses TCP for enhanced reliability for the route discovery process; reduces bandwidth consumption by advertising only incremental updates; supports extensive policies for increased flexibility; scales to very large networks
• 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
• Dual IP stack - Maintains separate stacks for IPv4 and IPv6 to ease the transition from an IPv4-only network to an IPv6-only network design
• Routing Information Protocol next generation (RIPng) - Extends RIPv2 to support IPv6 addressing
• OSPFv3 - Provides OSPF support for IPv6
• BGP+ - Extends BGP-4 to support Multiprotocol BGP (MBGP), including support for IPv6 addressing
• IS-IS for IPv6 - Extends IS-IS to support IPv6 addressing
• IPv6 tunneling - Allows IPv6 packets to traverse IPv4-only networks by encapsulating the IPv6 packet into a standard IPv4 packet; supports manually configured, 6to4, and Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP) tunnels; is an important element for the transition from IPv4 to IPv6
• Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) - Uses BGP to advertise routes across Label Switched Paths (LSPs), but uses simple labels to forward packets from any Layer 2 or Layer 3 protocol, which reduces complexity and increases performance; supports graceful restart for reduced failure impact; supports LSP tunneling and multilevel stacks
• Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Layer 3 VPN - Allows Layer 3 VPNs across a provider network; uses MBGP to establish private routes for increased security; supports RFC2547, multiple autonomous system VPNs for added flexibility; supports IPv6 MPLS VPN
• Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Layer 2 VPN - Establishes simple Layer 2 point-to-point VPNs across a provider network using only MPLS Label Distribution Protocol (LDP); requires no routing and therefore decreases complexity, increases performance, and allows VPNs of non-routable protocols; uses no routing information for increased security; supports Circuit Cross Connect (CCC), Static Virtual Circuits (SVCs), Martini draft, and Kompella-draft technologies
• Policy routing - Allows custom filters for increased performance and security; supports ACLs, IP prefix, AS paths, community lists, and aggregate policies

Security

• Access control list (ACL) - Supports powerful ACLs for both IPv4 and IPv6; ACLs are used for filtering traffic to prevent unauthorized users from accessing the network, or for controlling network traffic to save resources; rules can either deny or permit traffic to be forwarded; rules can be based on a Layer 2 header or a Layer 3 protocol header; rules can be set to operate on specific dates or times
• Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System (TACACS+) - Delivers an authentication tool using TCP with encryption of the full authentication request, providing additional security
• Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (URPF) - Allows normal packets to be forwarded correctly, but discards the attaching packet due to lack of reverse path route or incorrect inbound interface; prevents source spoofing and distributed attacks
• Network login - Uses standard IEEE 802.1X, allowing authentication of multiple users per port
• RADIUS - Eases security access administration by using a password authentication server
• Network address translation (NAT) - Supports one-to-one NAT, many-to-many NAT, and NAT control, enabling NAT-PT to support multiple connections; supports blacklist in NAT/NAT-PT, a limit on the number of connections, session logs, and multi-instances
• Secure shell (SSHv2) - Uses external servers to safely log in to a remote device or he router from a remote location; with authentication and encryption, it protects against IP spoofing and plain text password interception; increases the security of SFTP transfers
• IPSec VPN - Supports DES, 3DES, and AES 128/192/256 encryption, and MD5 and SHA-1 authentication
• Dynamic Virtual Private Network (DVPN) - Collects, maintains, and distributes dynamic public addresses through the VPN Address Management (VAM) protocol, making VPN establishment available between enterprise branches that use dynamic addresses to access the public network; compared to traditional VPN technologies, DVPN technology is more flexible and has richer features, such as NAT traversal of DVPN packets, AAA identity authentication, IPSec protection of data packets, and multiple VPN domains

Convergence

• Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) - Utilizes Any-Source Multicast (ASM) or Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) to manage IPv4 multicast networks; supports IGMPv1, v2, and v3
• Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) - Defines modes of Internet IPv4 and IPv6 multicasting to allow one-to-many and many-tomany transmission of information; supports PIM Dense Mode (DM), Sparse Mode (SM), and Source-Specific Mode (SSM)
• Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) - Allows multiple PIM-SM domains to interoperate; is used for interdomain multicast applications
• Multicast Border Gateway Protocol (MBGP) - Allows multicast traffic to be forwarded across BGP networks and kept separate from unicast traffic

Integration

• Embedded NetStream - Improves traffic distribution using powerful scheduling algorithms, including Layer 4 to 7 services; monitors the health status of servers and firewalls
• Embedded VPN firewall - Provides enhanced stateful packet inspection and filtering; delivers advanced VPN services with Triple DES (3DES) and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption at high performance and low latency, Web content filtering, and application prioritization and enhancement

Additional information

• OPEX savings - Simplify and streamline deployment, management, and training using a common operating system, thereby cutting costs as well as reducing the risk of human errors associated with having to manage multiple operating systems across different platforms and network layers
• High reliability - Provides a state-of-the-art unified code base
• Faster time to market - Allows new and custom features to be brought rapidly to market through engineering efficiencies, delivering better initial and ongoing stability
• Green initiative support - Provides support for RoHS and WEEE regulations

Product architecture

• Ideal multiservice platform - Provides a WAN router, Ethernet switch, wireless LAN, 3G/4G WAN, firewall, VPN, and SIP/voice gateway all in one box
• High-density voice interfaces - Provide flexible analog and digital voice interface options for easy integration within a wide range of deployments
• USB interface - Uses USB memory disk to download and upload configuration/OS image files; supports an external USB 3G modem for a 3G WAN uplink
• SIP trunk - The SIP trunk link can carry multiple concurrent calls; the carrier authenticates only the link, rather than carrying each SIP call on the link
• Embedded service modules for security and voice - Embedded Voice Co-Processing Modules (VCPMs) and Voice Processing Modules (VPMs) accommodate digital signal processor (DSP) modules for voice packet processing; embedded hardware encryption modules, Standard Network Data Encryptio

Warranty and support

• 1-year warranty - With advance replacement and 10-calendar-day delivery (available in most countries)
• Electronic and telephone support - Limited electronic and business-hours telephone support is available from HP for the entire warranty period; to reach our support centers, refer to hp.com/networking/contact-support; for details on the duration of support provided with your product purchase, refer to hp.com/networking/warrantysummary
• Software releases - To find software for your product, refer to hp.com/networking/support; for details on the software releases available with your product purchase, refer to hp.com/networking/warrantysummary

Specifications:

	HP MSR20-20 Router (JF283A)	HP MSR20-21 Router (JD663B)	HP MSR20-40 Router (JF228A)
I/O ports and slots
	2 SIC slots 2 RJ-45 autosensing 10/100 WAN ports (IEEE 802.3 Type 10BASE-T, IEEE 802.3u Type 100BASE-TX); Duplex: half or full	2 SIC slots 2 RJ-45 autosensing 10/100 WAN ports (IEEE 802.3 Type 10BASE-T, IEEE 802.3u Type 100BASE-TX); Duplex: half or full 8 RJ-45 autosensing 10/100 LAN ports (IEEE 802.3 Type 10BASE-T, IEEE 802.3u Type 100BASE-TX); Duplex: half or full	4 SIC slots 2 RJ-45 autosensing 10/100 WAN ports (IEEE 802.3 Type 10BASE-T, IEEE 802.3u Type 100BASE-TX); Duplex: half or full
Physical characteristics
Dimensions	14.17(w) x 11.3(d) x 1.74(h) in (36 x 28.71 x 4.42 cm) (1U height)	14.17(w) x 11.3(d) x 1.74(h) in (36 x 28.71 x 4.42 cm) (1U height)	14.17(w) x 11.3(d) x 1.74(h) in (36 x 28.71 x 4.42 cm) (1U height)
Weight	7.5 lb (3.4 kg)	7.5 lb (3.4 kg)	11.9 lb (5.4 kg)
Memory and processor
	RISC @ 400 MHz, 256 MB compact flash, 256 MB SDRAM	RISC @ 400 MHz, 256 MB compact flash, 256 MB SDRAM	RISC @ 400 MHz, 256 MB compact flash, 256 MB SDRAM
Mounting and enclosure
	Desktop or can be mounted in a EIAstandard 19-inch telco rack when used with the rack-mount kit in the package	Desktop or can be mounted in a EIAstandard 19-inch telco rack when used with the rack-mount kit in the package	Mounts in an EIA-standard 19-inch telco rack
Performance
Throughput	up to 180 Kpps (64-byte packets)	up to 180 Kpps (64-byte packets)	up to 180 Kpps (64-byte packets)
Routing table size	10000 entries (IPv4), 10000 entries (IPv6)	10000 entries (IPv4), 10000 entries (IPv6)	10000 entries (IPv4), 10000 entries (IPv6)
Environment
Operating temperature	32°F to 104°F (0°C to 40°C)	32°F to 104°F (0°C to 40°C)	32°F to 104°F (0°C to 40°C)
Operating relative humidity	5% to 90%, noncondensing	5% to 90%, noncondensing	5% to 90%, noncondensing
Nonoperating/Storage temperature	-40°F to 158°F (-40°C to 70°C)	-40°F to 158°F (-40°C to 70°C)	-40°F to 158°F (-40°C to 70°C)
Nonoperating/Storage relative humidity	5% to 90%, noncondensing	5% to 90%, noncondensing	5% to 90%, noncondensing
Electrical characteristics
Frequency	50/60 Hz	50/60 Hz	50/60 Hz
Maximum heat dissipation	184 BTU/hr (194.12 kJ/hr)	184 BTU/hr (194.12 kJ/hr)	341 BTU/hr (359.76 kJ/hr)
AC voltage	100 - 240 VAC	100 - 240 VAC	100 - 240 VAC
Maximum power rating	54 W	54 W	100 W
Notes	Maximum power rating and maximum heat dissipation are the worst-case theoretical maximum numbers provided for planning the infrastructure with fully loaded PoE (if equipped), 100% traffic, all ports plugged in, and all modules populated.

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Documentation:

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