DATA SHEET SWITCHES

H3C S5120-HI Series Enhanced

IPv6 Switch

S5120-52SC-HI

S5120-58C-HI

S5120-28SC-HI

S5120-34C-HI

Overview

he H3C S5120-HI series switch represents the latest enhanced

IPv6 Layer 3 switches developed by H3C with advanced
hardware capabilities and rich service features. They support
up to six 10GB ports(5500-34C/58C-HI only) or four 10GB ports,
delivering the highest port density and flexible port scalability for
1U equipment in the industry. Supporting IPv4/IPv6 dual stack and
line speed forwarding, they allow users to meet the challenges
of the coming IPv6 era with ease. The unique intelligent resilient
framework (IRF2) function simplifies network management. In
addition, the excellent security, reliability, and multi-service support
make the S5120-HI the best choice of access switches to connect
server clusters in data centers (DCs) or access of large enterprise and
campus networks.

Features
High scalability and high port density

High performance IPv4/IPv6 capabilities

The H3C S5120-HI series switch comes in these four models:

S5120-52SC-HI: 48 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet ports, 2

100/1000Base-X SFP(Combo), 2 1G/10G SFP Plus ports, and 1
expansion slots.

S5120-28SC-HI: 24 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet ports, 2

100/1000Base-X SFP(Combo), 2 1G/10G SFP Plus ports, and 1
expansion slots.

S5500-58C-HI: 48 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet ports, 4 SFP

gigabit ports, 2 10GB SFP+ ports, and 2 expansion slots.

S5120-34C-HI: 24 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet ports, 4 SFP

gigabit ports, 2 10GB SFP+ ports, and 2 expansion slots.

S5120-HI

The H3C S5120-HI switch has one or two expansion slots that
support a variety of interface modules, including 2-port XFP,
SFP+, and CX4, and 8-port gigabit interface modules. They can
be expanded to support up to 68 gigabit ports and six 10GB
ports. With flexible scalability and the highest port density
available in the industry, they meet the needs for aggregation of
large-scale networks, hybrid fiber/coax configuration at the core
of small and medium-sized networks, and expansion needs of
user networks.

With a hardware-based IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack platform, the

S5120-HI switch offers superior IPv4/IPv6 solutions that support
a wide range of tunnel technologies. As established commercial
products, the S5120-HI switch has passed the IPv6 network
entry certification and IPv6 Ready Phase II accreditation by the
MII.

Intelligent and resilient architecture

The H3C S5120-HI switch supports the intelligent resilient
framework 2 (IRF2) virtualization, interconnecting several physical
switches into one logic switch so that the user can manage and
use them as a single switch. IRF benefits include:

Simplified management: With an IRF architecture, you can log

onto a unified logic switch through any port on any switch and
manage the whole intelligent resilient system and all member

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switches within it by configuring a single switch without having

to connect to each member physically.

Simplified service: The control protocols running on the logic

switch created by IRF also run as a single, unified device. For
example, the routing protocols will be computed as a single
device in a unified way. Cross-switch link aggregation replaces
the traditional STP and eliminates the interaction of a huge
number of protocol messages among devices, simplifying
network operation and shortening the convergence time during
network instability.

Resilient expandability: IRF can be flexibly expanded to suit

users needs to protect their investment. Switches can be added
to or deleted from IRF by hot plugging, without affecting the
running of other switches.

High reliability: The IRF delivers high reliability for links,

switches, and protocols. It allows aggregation of physical ports
of member switches and physical connections between IRF
system and its upper and lower level switches. The multi-link
backup greatly enhances link reliability. An IRF system consists
of a number of member switches. When the master switch fails,
the system will quickly elect a new master to ensure that services
are not interrupted. This provides the 1: N backup at the switch
level. The IRF system provides real-time hot backup of protocols,
backing up configurations to all other members to achieve 1:N
protocol reliability.

subscribers, diagnosing and stopping illegal network activities

timely.

Multiple reliability protection

The S5120-HI switch provides multiple reliability protection at

both switch and link levels. With overcurrent, overvoltage, and
overheat protection, all models have a redundant pluggable
power module, which enables flexible configuration of AC or
DC power modules based on actual needs. The entire switch
supports fault detection and alarm for power supply and
fan, allowing fan speed to change to suit different ambient
temperatures.

S5120-28SC-HI and S5120-52SC-HI with Hot-swappable fan

modules which provide Front-to-Back Airflow or Back-to-Front
Airflow supporting efficient data center hot and cold-aisle
designs. These designs ensure high reliability.

QoS policies

High performance: For high-end switches, improvements

on performance and port density will be constrained by the
hardware structure. The performance and port density of an
IRF system, however, are the sum of all switches and ports in it.
Therefore, IRF can easily multiply the switching capabilities and
port density to greatly improve switch performance.

Outstanding security control policies

The H3C S5120-HI switch supports endpoint admission defense

(EAD), integrating terminal security measures, including anti-virus
and patching, and network security measures, such as network
access control and access rights control into an interactive
security system with the background system. By checking,
isolating, repairing, managing, and monitoring the access
terminals, they turn reactive single-point defense to proactive,
all-round defense and change divided management into
centralized policy management. This enhances the networks
overall protection against emerging threats such as viruses and
worms.
The H3C S5120-HI switch supports centralized MAC address
authentication, 802.1x authentication, Portal authentication,
dynamic or static binding of such user identifiers as user
accounts, IP and MAC addresses, VLAN, and ports, and dynamic
distribution of user policies (VLAN, QoS, and ACL). Together with
H3C iMC system, they enable real-time management of online

S5120-HI

With enhanced ACL control logic, the H3C S5120-HI switch

supports very high capacity inbound and outbound ACL and the
distribution of VLAN-based ACL. This simplifies user configuration
while saving ACL resources.

The H3C S5120-HI switch supports L2 to L4 packet filtering

and traffic classification by source or destination MAC address,
source or destination IP address, TCP/UDP port number, protocol
type, and VLAN. They also support flexible queue scheduling
algorithms including strict priority (SP), weighted round robin
(WRR), SP+WRR, and WFQ with port or queue-based setting.
The products support the committed access rate (CAR) with a
minimum granularity of 8 kbps. They allow both inbound and
outbound port mirroring, monitoring the packets on a specified
port and copying the data packets to the monitoring port for
detection and troubleshooting.

Excellent manageability

The H3C S5120-HI switch provides a big variety of management

ports, such as console and outband NM port in support of SNMP
v1/v2/v3, supporting general NM platforms like Open View and
iMC. With CLI, Web network management, Telnet, and HGMP,
switch management is easier and SSH 2.0 encryption enhances
security.

The S5120-HI provides BIMS/EEE, and provides SPAN/RSPAN/

ERSPAN mirroring, and several mirroring observation ports.
You can easily analyze the network traffic and then take
corresponding management or maintenance measures. The
otherwise intangible network traffic is presented clearly with
various traffic analysis reports to help you optimize network
structure and adjust resource deployment promptly.

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Specifications
Feature
Packet forwarding
capacity (entire switch)
Management port

S5120-28SC-HI

S5120-52SC-HI

S5120-34C-HI

S5120-58C-HI

96Mpps

132Mpps

132Mpps

168Mpps

24
10/100/1000Base-T
Ethernet ports
4 1000Base-X gigabit SFP
ports
2 SFP+ ports

48
10/100/1000Base-T
Ethernet ports
4 1000Base-X gigabit SFP
ports
2 SFP+ ports

1 console port and 1 out-band NM port

Service port

24
10/100/1000Base-T
Ethernet ports, 2
100/1000Base-X
SFP(Combo),2 1G/10G SFP
Plus ports

Expansion slot

1extended slots

2 extended slots

Optional interface
module

1-port 10GE XFP

2-port 10GE XFP
2-port 10GE CX4
2-port 10GE SFP+
2-port 1GE SFP
-

1-port 10GE XFP

2-port 10GE XFP
2-port 10GE CX4
2-port 10GE SFP+
2-port 1GE SFP
8-port 1GE SFP
8-port 10/100/1000Base-T

Port aggregation

Port attribute

Jumbo Frame
MAC address list

VLAN mapping

ND

DHCP

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LACP
Manual aggregation
Maximum of 128 aggregation groups, each group supports 8 GE or 4 10GE ports at most
IEEE 802.3x flow control (full duplex)
Storm control based on port rate percentage
Storm control based on PPS

9K

VLAN

48
10/100/1000Base-T
Ethernet ports, 2
100/1000Base-X
SFP(Combo),2 1G/10G SFP
Plus ports

32K MAC address

MAC blackhole
Setting of the maximum number of MAC addresses for learning
4K port-based VLANs
MAC-based VLAN
Protocol-based VLAN
IP subnet-based VLAN
QinQ and flexible QinQ
VLAN mapping
Voice VLAN
GVRP
1:1 VLAN Mapping
N:1 VLAN Mapping
2:2 VLAN Mapping
ND proxy
IPv6 ND detection
IPv6 ND snooping
DHCP Client
DHCP Snooping
DHCP Relay
DHCP Server

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Specifications (continued)
Feature

S5120-28SC-HI

S5120-52SC-HI

DHCP Snooping option82/DHCP Relay option82

IPv6 DHCP Client
IPv6 DHCP Snooping
IPv6 DHCP Relay
IPv6 DHCP Server

UDP helper

UDP helper

IP routing

IPv4/IPv6 static routing

DHCP (continued)

IP multicast

S5120-58C-HI

Monitor link

RRPP
Smart link
STP/RSTP/MSTP
STP Root Guard
BPDU Guard

ACL\QoS support

L2 ring network protocol

S5120-34C-HI

Mirroring

Security

IRF2

Management and
maintenance

S5120-HI

L2 to L4 packet filtering and traffic classification by source or destination MAC address, source or destination
IP address, TCP/UDP port numbers, protocol type, and VLAN
ACL by time range
Inbound and outbound dual ACL policy
VLAN-based ACL distribution
Flexible queue scheduling algorithms including strict priority (SP), weighted round robin (WRR), SP+WRR, and
WFQ with settings based on port or queue
Re-marking packets 802.1p and DSCP priority
Flow mirroring
N:4 port mirroring
Local and remote port mirroring
reflector-port
Hierarchical user management and password protection
802.1X authentication and centralized MAC address authentication
Guest VLAN
RADIUS authentication
SSH 2.0
Port isolation
Port security
PORTAL authentication
EAD
DHCP Snooping to prevent false DHCP server
Dynamic ARP detection to prevent man-in-the-middle attack and ARP DoS
BPDU guard and Root guard
IP/Port/MAC binding
IRF2
Distributed switch management, link aggregation, and resilient routing
Stacking by standard Ethernet ports
Local and remote stacking
L Configuration through CLI, Telnet, and Console port
SNMPv1/v2/v3 and WEB network management
Remote monitoring (RMON), alarming, event, and history recording
iMC

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Specifications (continued)
Feature
Management and
maintenance (continued)

S5120-28SC-HI

Energy Save

S5120-52SC-HI

S5120-34C-HI

S5120-58C-HI

Export of system logs, alarms of different levels, and debugging information

HGMPv2
Alarming for power supply, fan, and temperature
Ping and Tracert
Virtual cable test (VCT)
Device link detection protocol (DLDP)
LLDP
OAM(802.1ag/802.3ah)
BIMS
FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol)
ISSU
NetStream (Only S5120-58C/34C-HI)
EEE (802.3az)
Power down
Schedule job

Dimensions (L x W x H)

44042043.6 (mm)

44042043.6 (mm)

44036043.6 (mm)

44042043.6 (mm)

Weight

<7.7kg

<8.2kg

<7.5kg

<8.5kg

AC:141W
DC:115W

AC:191W
DC:180W

Power supply

AC:
Rated voltage: 100 V 240 V AC, 50/60Hz
Voltage range: 90 V 264 V AC, 47/63Hz
DC:
Rated voltage: -48V ~ -60V DC
Voltage range: -36V ~ -72V DC

Power consumption
(full load)
Operating ambient
temperature
Operating ambient RH
(no condensation)

Legend
: supported

S5120-HI

AC:107W
DC:85W
0C~50C
5%~95%

AC:145W
DC:126W

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